Corruption in Media - Inputs on Root Causes
Below are the key corruption issues in media industry as highlighted by you. Kindly review them and help identify root causes for these issues.
Once we know the root causes, we will have a separate discussion on solutions. The objective here is to present a comprehensive whitepaper to Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and CVC so actions can be taken to reduce Corruption in Media industry.
Corruption in Media Industry - Key Issues
1. Most PR companies give gifts to most journos or pay them for the coverage of their clients
2. Media takes stands with political parties as they want to benefit from the same
3. News channels are paid not to cover and report certain items
4. Journalists blackmail businesses/individuals and demand money on the pretext of publishing negative news about them
5. Some news channel bosses accept Land, Flat, Approvals in exchange of news stories (published or blocked) etc.
6. Some news channels play the role of political party agents to bombard viewers with stories designed to help the party
7. Many media personalities lobby for politicians and businessmen
8. Some times media houses collude to keep the Government in check
9. Most time good social initiatives do not get coverage from media as they are busy covering paid news
10. In many regional news papers, by paying one can get any page/any column desired for article/news.
Once we know the root causes, we will have a separate discussion on solutions. The objective here is to present a comprehensive whitepaper to Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and CVC so actions can be taken to reduce Corruption in Media industry.
Corruption in Media Industry - Key Issues
1. Most PR companies give gifts to most journos or pay them for the coverage of their clients
2. Media takes stands with political parties as they want to benefit from the same
3. News channels are paid not to cover and report certain items
4. Journalists blackmail businesses/individuals and demand money on the pretext of publishing negative news about them
5. Some news channel bosses accept Land, Flat, Approvals in exchange of news stories (published or blocked) etc.
6. Some news channels play the role of political party agents to bombard viewers with stories designed to help the party
7. Many media personalities lobby for politicians and businessmen
8. Some times media houses collude to keep the Government in check
9. Most time good social initiatives do not get coverage from media as they are busy covering paid news
10. In many regional news papers, by paying one can get any page/any column desired for article/news.
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Media is favoured by the government(s) by awarding various government ads as gifts either for not reporting news against them or giving favourable coverage by making stories and ignoring important/breaking news.
Jul 29
Dear Transparency International India, this is yet another example of your aimless exercises, with no application of mind. The kind of issues compiled by you amply demonstrates this. These are the tea-shop kind of gossip issues that are either too inane or emanate from superficial understanding of the situation. If you can't come up with any meaningful contribution or creative & practical solutions, I suggest you stop wasting members' and Govt's time.
Jul 27
Dear Transparency International India, this is yet another example of your aimless exercises, with no application of mind. The kind of issues compiles by you ample demonstrates this. These are the tea-shop kind of gossip issues that are either too inane or emanate from superficial understanding of the situation. If you can't come up with any meaningful contribution or creative & practical solutions, I suggest you stop wasting members' and Govt's time.
Jul 27
Dear Transparency International India, this is yet another example of your aimless exercises, with no application of mind. The kind of issues compiles by you ample demonstrates this. These are the tea-shop kind of gossip issues that are either too inane or emanate from superficial understanding of the situation. If you can't come up with any meaningful contribution or creative & practical solutions, I suggest you stop wasting members' and Govt's time.
Jul 27
Media are private enterpreneurs. They need to generate funds for their survival. In the absence of ethics, code of conduct, and stanadrd practices, they tend to formulate their own rules and regulations to maximize funds with minimum effort. The role of the government is to encourage the media conglomerate to formulate in detail rules of ethics, code of conduct, and standard practices. These rules shall be critically examined and corrected by the government and promulgate as the law of the land. It shall be strictly enforced and hefty penalty shall be imposed for violation. The incident covered live by NDTV (Ms. Brakha Dutt) and others during the Taj Hotel terrorist strike, which information was gathered and used by the Pakistani elements from Karachi online to give appropriate direction to the holed up terrorists is a very sad example of the media not analyzing the consequences of their own actions.
Jul 25
