The press in India, like the press elsewhere, holds on to the belief that it is the Fourth Estate of democracy, after the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, although the press in India, as much as the press elsewhere, finds its institutional and individual integrity increasingly under question. In an article on the Open…
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‘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…