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'Media needs to exercise restraint'
Friday January 04, 2013 09:31:02 PM,
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New Delhi: The media
should exercise restraint and act in a responsible manner while
reporting on sensitive issues, experts said here Friday.
"In the recent (Delhi) gang-rape case, media became almost a part
of the crowd and instead of guiding people in the right direction
it fed frenzy," K.T.S. Tulsi, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, said
at a press conference organised by the Indian Women's Press Corps.
Among those present at the press conference were noted journalists
Ravish Kumar, Shoma Chaudhury and feminist Nivedita Menon who
writes for Kafila.org, a blogging website.
Tulsi said the media must show restraint as the people who are
aggrieved could be at a great loss.
Terming the work of print media as "exemplary" while covering the
rape and torture of a young girl in a bus here, Nivedita Menon
said the broadcast media should introspect when it comes to
reporting such events.
"Television news channels have no independent character. It is an
era of pulp television and the viewers will have to accept it,"
Ravish Kumar said.
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