[icernet] News Channels Make A Bid For Self-regulation

[Arul Selvan]

  Taking time off from their respective channel launches, news 
broadcasters will put their heads together on Wednesday to deliberate on 
contentwhat should be beamed and what should not be. Before the 
government could thrust its restrictive norms on news channels, the 
Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) wants to be ready with a regulation 
code. In a first of its kind meeting, senior representatives of news 
channels including Star, Zee, TV Today, Sahara, Doordarshan and NDTV 
will chalk out the dos and donts for the industry. Although the 
government is firm on a certain ethos in news broadcasting, it is 
giving a chance to the broadcasters to go for self-regulation before 
cracking the whip. Information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar 
Prasad is of the view that use of descriptive riot pictures and naming 
of communities, among other things, in television news should be stopped.

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http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=31827