Sunday, 6 November 2016

Blackout of NDTV: A time when Vajpayee government refused to ban Jaya TV

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As it becomes increasingly clear with each passing day why Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken away the Information and Broadcasting Ministry portfolio from Arun Jaitley and given it to M Venkaiah Naidu in the cabinet reshuffle in mid-July, the journalistic world is sharply divided over the daylong blackout of NDTV India and News Time Assam.

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the India Today group Aroon Purie on Saturday tweeted a paragraph from the statement by the News Broadcasters Standards Authority (NBSA), an independent regulatory body set up by television channels: “Banning channels dangerous weapon in hands of government. Should respect well established self-regulation.”

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