{"id":162,"date":"2006-04-17T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/04\/17\/censorship-for-television-too\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T04:29:11","slug":"censorship-for-television-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/censorship-for-television-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship for Television too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UPA government, bless its fascist little heart, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_1676645,0011.htm\">planning to introduce legislation to set up a content regulator for television<\/a>. The Hindustan Times report I&#8217;ve linked to mentions, among other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>that Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, the I&#038;B minister said that it was the uniform view of viewers that there was a need for content regulation and comprehensive legislation. Which viewers? How many of them? Have they asked the man?<\/li>\n<li>that the government wants a clampdown on sensationalization of news, especially crime news. So I guess the next time there&#8217;s a riot in Gujarat, or anywhere else for that matter, the government can stop NDTV from broadcasting images as they&#8217;re too sensational. Public awareness? What public awareness?<\/li>\n<li>Ooh, and here&#8217;s the good stuff: channels can be temporarily suspended for a short term if they default the code (which code? It doesn&#8217;t say). After Fernandesgate, all the government could do was drag Tehelka&#8217;s promoters to court. With this new and improved legislation, you can shut down that pesky news channel straight away. Why waste time at the courts?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy your TV news while you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UPA government, bless its fascist little heart, is planning to introduce legislation to set up a content regulator for television. The Hindustan Times report I&#8217;ve linked to mentions, among other things: that Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, the I&#038;B minister said that it was the uniform view of viewers that there was a need for content regulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msm","category-public-policy-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}