[icernet] 'Market economy serious threat to domestic media'

[Arul Selvan]

   Union Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi on 
Sunday expressed concern about the impact of globalisation on domestic 
media and said concerted efforts should be made to protect it from 
market forces.  Stating that majority of Indian newspapers offered less 
news items and more advertisements to the readers, Joshi said the media 
"should not be allowed to become yet another market product". 

Referring to the demand for a model code of conduct for media-persons, 
the HRD minister said that he was not in favour of the government 
formulating such a code. Instead, they should frame a code of conduct 
for themselves so that they can follow it without feeling that it has 
been imposed on them by the political establishment, he said.

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