Businessmen controlling media: Dinesh Amin Mattu
Bengaluru, July 07: Senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu has said that businessmen and advertisements are managing the media in recent times.
Speaking at Press Day function organized by the city's press club, he said, advertisements are being given more importance than the news in present days. For newspapers, advertising consumers have become more important than news readers. “Today the newspapers are being sold for less than the cost of production,” he added.
Dinesh further asked “how many reports regarding the irregularities of businessmen have been investigated and published by media so far? When politicians de-notify even one acre of land, whole day, it gets discussed in the media houses. That means today’s media is standing on entrepreneurs’ advertisements. Moreover, entrepreneurs have recently begun to control politicians as well. This is a dangerous development.”
“The way doctors, engineers, writers, and others are getting corrupted; in the same manner, journalists are becoming corrupt. Thus, if the media is not diagnosed, it is impossible to eradicate the disease from society,” he added.
We have imagined media as the fourth pillar of the Constitution. But there is no mention of it anywhere in the Constitution. Also, Dr. BR Ambedkar had rejected this. Instead, how much responsibility the general public has under the right to expression, the same duty is there on Journalists. In spite of that, it has been projected as the fourth organ of the constitution.
Those who work in the legislature, executive and judiciary are paid from ordinary people's taxes. But, those who work in the media are depending on the advertisers’ money. In such a case, how is it possible to stand the fourth pillar amid three pillars, he asked.
Journalists will be watching a scene even if they close their eyes. A subject is also heard if ears are closed. But it is not possible for them to independently express what they saw, heard, and felt. Everything is in the hands of the owner. Understand this hardship and find out a way, Dinesh Amin Mattu said.
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J&K polls: Amit Shah arrives in Jammu ahead of Saturday's hectic campaigning
Jammu (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Jammu on Friday night ahead of the hectic day-long campaigning on Saturday during which he will address five public rallies in three districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Shah arrived here from Delhi and drove straight to the State Guest house, a senior BJP leader said.
Shah will fly to Poonch early tomorrow morning and address the first of four rallies in Mendhar followed by Surankote in Poonch district, he added.
Shah is scheduled to address rallies in Thanamandi and Rajouri followed by Akhnoor in Jammu.
He is also expected to hold a rally in the Nowshera constituency in support of Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Sunday.
