Djelloul (Del) Marbrook in The Student Operated Press: “Driven by pressure to perform for profit-takers, the print and electronic press seem to be moving away from the very direction they should be going towards…. “The media are not responding to a technological revolution but rather to demands from owners and shareholders for more money, demands…
Daily Archives: 9 December 2007
‘Ignorance of law is no excuse for the media’
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Ignorance of the law is no excuse for attracting punishment under the law. However, ignorance of the law seems a fine excuse for the media to make a story out of nothing as is evidenced by news reports of a judge at a fast-track court in Jharkhand summoning two Hindu…