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The Messenger?
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- India's post-terror Mumbai fiasco exposes brazen New
Delhi move to censor media coverage.
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India's
post-terror Mumbai fiasco exposes brazen New
Delhi move to censor media coverage.
The
Times
of India
reported that the I&B ministry on Wednesday issued an advisory
to news channels asking them to refrain from repeated telecasts of the
Mumbai attacks. The advisory was sent to the Indian Broadcasting
Federation and the News Broadcasters Association as well as all news
and
current affairs channels according to The Times.
Unknown
to most within and without India, the government refused to
renew a broadcast license for CNN International at the height of
terrorists' attacks throughout the world's largest city and which
serves as the nation's
financial capital (metro population 18 million). CNNi was
forced to utilize other means to eventually work out an eleventh-hour
private agreement allowing the global news organization to gain live
broadcasting access via a competitor's broadcast satellite feed
according to
FollowTheMedia.com.
Woe
to CNNi and other global news organizations on subsequent broadcast
license applications ...
Radio
and tv are getting a not-to-subtle message from India's
government licensing board to, in effect, cease and desist from
further coverage in Mumbai as well as refraining from airing interviews
and footage from archive files produced of the terrorist carnage as it
unfolded.
Print
media has also been asked to move on to other news coverage.
The
New Delhi bureaucrats should be told in no uncertain terms to get
out of the media's way as we all sit on pins and needles to look and
see, hear, and read about the
Indian government's post-Mumbai performance.
The media is ever there; it's time for the Prime Minister to step up to
the plate and do the needful: Put an immediate stop to his government's
blatant and subtle
interference and intimidation of all the world's news gatherers.
We
are the messenger, a body of one.
My
Say by M.
R. Lawrence, Publisher, Midday
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