Threatening and Tarring the Watchdogs
A JOURNAL OF THE PRESS INSTITUTE OF INDIA ISSN 0042-5303 April-June 2017 JOURNALISM UNDER SIEGE Volume 9 Issue 2 Rs 50 Threatening and CONTENTS • All fawning admiration, no critical look / Ranjona Banerji tarring the watchdogs • Demonetisation – coverage by print could have been better / Bharat Dogra The press used to be known once upon a time as the Fourth Estate • A president’s unmasked (the legislature, the executive and the judiciary being the three dislike of the media / main wings of national vigilance). Freedom of expression is also Yogesh Vajpeyi enshrined in our Constitution. However, today, increasingly, the • The new Disability Act media seems to be vilified and constitutional guarantees tossed and the role of the media / aside by authoritarian diktats, in the name of ‘ensuring national Santosh Kumar Biswal • A 'travelling diary' highlights security’ and safeguarding law and order. Journalists who report woes faced by rural women on malpractices are being threatened. Sakuntala Narasimhan / Sakuntala Narasimhan provides the perspective • Treating waste on-site best way to keep Bharat n the third week of March this year, the Network of Women in Media, swachh? / Rina Mukherjee India (NWMI), a forum for women media professionals (including print, • Sustainable use of water radio and television) put out a statement condemning the intimidation never taken serously, says I expert / Ranjita Biswas unleashed against a woman journalist who published a series of articles exposing corruption and massive malpractices by India’s largest miner and • Getting the message across exporter of rare earth minerals, S. Vaikundarajan of Tamil Nadu, with details to a tribal population is of politicians’ collusion in the illegal operation and looting of national assets never easy / Ritesh Kumar (sand and minerals).
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