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Personal ethical standards should guide media: Tewari
Tuesday January 15, 2013 09:10:30 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: TRPs and
sensationalism in the media are realities that need to be
transformed slowly, with personal ethical standards playing the
guiding force, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish
Tewari here Tuesday.
Addressing the convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of
Mass Communication (IIMC) here, the minister said "the question of
ethics is important and defines each of our individual actions".
"Media has a larger role in disseminating information in a manner
that is responsible and candid... it is an ethical challenge,"
said Tewari, adding that personal ethical standards should be the
benchmark while exercising Article 19 of the constitution on the
right to freedom of speech and expression.
On the question of self regulation of media, the minister said he
would "like to err on the side of self-regulation".
He said self-regulation as a process needs to be broad-based and
consolidated and there should be a "happy marriage between self
regulation and ethical standards".
Tewari said there was a view that the government is a "big brother
and predator", which he said was a valid argument and he
personally respects creative freedom.
Drawing a parallel between the stock markets and freedom of
expression, he said: "Creative potential or animal spirits is best
exemplified in stock markets…So, should capital markets be allowed
full play… Somewhere, it is a professional issue to be regulated."
Touching upon the new media - of the internet and social networks,
Tewari said the internet has completely transformed communication.
"The phenomenon of new media, the crores of young individuals
active in social media.. they are all broadcasters in their own
right.. empowered by putting their opinion in public spaces."
He said in the next few years, the media will be highly
transformed and said IIMC should face up to the challenges of the
new technological advances and adapt to the changing
circumstances.
He also said that IIMC should strive to become the bar for
journalistic training, not only in India but in the world.
Many students were conferred with diplomas for courses in
journalism, advertising and public relations at the four centres
of the Institute - New Delhi, Dhenkanal, Aizawl and Amravati.
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