There have been quite a number of exposes by The Media of late.
O the global level,of recent exposes is the exposure of phone hacking by the Media ,which made Murdoch close his News of The World,Jimmy Savile of The BBC and broadcaster’s marquee news magazine wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal, which cost the BBC Director General George Entwistle his job.
In India we had the radia tape on 2 G Spetcrum Scam,ISRO-Antrix-Dewas,CWG,CoalGate,Maharashtra Irrigation,Salman Khurshid et al , all exposed by the media.
Three is a growing voice that The media is wrong in trying the case in Public and that it is not fair.
The difference is that the information relating to a shady deal is being reported from an angle,need not necessarily be correct in the information-this is subject to verification,for all.
One must remember these exposes score self goals as well, as in this case and for instance the Guwahati Molestation case’ when the modus operandi of the filming received more stinging comments.
Then, to find out the truth is the job of the investigating agencies to ferret out the truth.
If incorrect,media ca be awarded punitive punishment.
That way the media can be made more responsible.
To shut it down from publishing only News that has happened and scientific facts-for these Text Books and Gazette will do,will deprive democracy of it a great pillar of strength.
With out these exposes we would never have heard of scams in India starting from Bofors!
The action taken on these proven facts is still zero.
Imagine what goes unreported.
Story.
Coming on top of the Jimmy Savile crisis, which was prompted partly by the fact that Newsnight had shelved an earlier investigation into allegations of child abuse, this was particularly damaging to the BBC.
But this was also about the handling of the crisis. Last month, Mr Entwistle was accused by MPs of showing “an extraordinary lack of curiosity” over the Jimmy Savile affair and they told him to “get a grip”.
On Saturday in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said he knew nothing in advance about the Newsnight broadcast nor had he seen a newspaper report revealing Lord McAlpine may have been wrongly accused.
MPs, former editors and broadcasting executives were unimpressed and so, I understand, were members of the BBC Trust.
On Sunday, the job of acting director-general will be taken by Tim Davie, who’s been running the radio side of the BBC but who has no direct journalistic experience.
The BBC still faces very serious questions, not just about its journalism but about how the organisation is run.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20284124
Related:
http://ramanisblog.in/2012/07/16/guwahati-molestation-video-sex-education-is-no-answer/
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