[icernet] RSS asks media to be "responsible"

[Arul Selvan]

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and RSS 
General Secretary Mohan Bhagwat today expressed concern over media's 
increasing "loss of credibility" and said it should be more responsible 
in the coverage of events with a bearing on the nation.  "While we have 
to respect media's freeedom to strengthen the foundations of democracy, 
there is concern and anguish whether it is a business or commitment. 
Where has the Editor got lost in commercialism?," Prasad asked at a 
seminar on media organised by the RSS media wing. Drawing parallels 
between the US media coverage of 9/11 and the Indian coverage of the 
blast outside Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, he said while the American 
channels did not show a single dead body, the media here focused on 
mutilated corpses. "The US media using their wisdom decided not to 
become a platform to spread terror. In such important matters, we should 
use our wisdom," he said and criticised the manner in which the 
electronic media highlighted the concern of the relatives of the 
passengers of the IC814 hijacked to Kandahar in December 1999.

Source:
http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2003/april/50230.htm