The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday asked all private satellite TV channels to be cautious about content that may insti...
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday asked all private satellite TV channels to be cautious about content that may instigate violence or promote “anti-national” attitudes. The advisory came after 13 people were killed in the violence in North East Delhi over the last three days.
“It is hereby reiterated that all TV channels are advised to be particularly cautious with regard to any content which is likely to encourage or incite violence, or contains anything against the maintenance of law and order or which promotes anti-national attitudes,” the advisory read.
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"Anti-national attitudes" features once again in vaguely worded, menacing government advisory to TV news channels. @scroll_in https://t.co/k5zHxFJnDK
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The government advisory also asked television channels not to air any content that contained attack on religions or communities or visuals or words that could be contemptuous of religious groups or which promote communal attitudes. Content that may carry “defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos...
