VS against lottery ads in media

Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister V S Achuthanandan said that advertisement have become a major power regulating media. He said though its clear that advertisements of lotteries, which was nothing but gambling, were being published in plenty. He was speaking after inaugurating a campaign on ethical journalism being organized by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists. He called for greater responsibility on the part of media houses in the selection of advertisements and asked media that when the advertisement which is known to them as harmful to people , media should disclose it and create awareness, he added. . Congress leader G. Karthikeyan said it was high time the media subjected themselves to self-criticism in the larger interest of democracy. Inaugurating a seminar on 'paid news,' Finance Minister T.M. Thomas said that the political stand of media can be accepted but the tendency to manufacture news to suit the political stand of individual media organizations was very much a reality in the State too, he said.

Former MP Sebastian Paul said the PCI chairman should have resigned if he could not publish the report of the sub-committee on 'paid news.' P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, The Hindu said that the 'paid news' phenomenon is an assault on the people's right to honest information and a major threat to electoral democracy, . He came down heavily on the Press Council of India for its failure to publish the report of the two-member sub-committee on 'paid news.' He said it was a clear case of the representatives of media owners having succeeded in getting the Press Council to virtually shelve the report on specious grounds. 'At a time when journalists across the country are using the Right to Information Act to access information, the Press Council of India is suppressing its own report,' he said.







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