‘Accountability of media to make sure it’s not misused via anti-India forces’: Shripad Naik
December 11, 2020 12:53:49 am
Naik, the junior defence minister, mentioned misuse of media has greater manifold when nearly everybody has a smartphone. (Document)
The media has a duty not to be misused via anti-India forces and there are components throughout the nation who’re energetic round-the-clock to tarnish the picture of the Indian defence forces, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik mentioned on Thursday.
Addressing the valedictory serve as of a media conversation path for defence group of workers on the Indian Institute of Mass Verbal exchange, Naik mentioned, “The media has a very powerful function in coping with anti-India forces. It’s the duty of all folks, together with the media individuals, to be sure that our media isn’t misused via the anti-India forces towards our personal nation.”
Naik mentioned “there are components within the nation which are energetic round-the-clock to tarnish” the picture of the defence forces, and “we will counter all vicious campaigns towards our defence forces via adopting the precise media means,” in step with a observation via the I&B Ministry.
The junior defence minister mentioned that misuse of media has greater manifold when nearly everybody has a smartphone. “Media literacy additionally is helping us to counter mental struggle that we see globally,” he mentioned.
The remarks come amid India’s standoff with China and two weeks after the Press Council of India issued an advisory for the media on November 25 pointing out “unregulated stream of the overseas content material isn’t fascinating” and advising media to “post overseas extracts in Indian newspapers with due verification because the reporter, writer and editor of such newspaper might be answerable for the contents without reference to the supply from which it’s won”.
In June, Prasar Bharati had advised information company PTI that its reporting was once “now not in nationwide pastime” after Chinese language Ambassador Solar Weidong printed a truncated model of an interview at the Embassy’s web page.
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