‘Regulator for media needed’
Express news service
Posted: Dec 01, 2012 at 0126 hrs IST
New Delhi
Echoing Lord Justice Brian Leveson’s prescription for the British media, former chief justice of India J S Verma has said an independent regulatory authority is the need of the hour for the Indian media, and that, like the judiciary, it has not quite lived up to the demands of self-regulation.
However, he warned against any gagging of the media. “It is worse. I have seen the Emergency and what it did to the media. What disturbs me today is that I see signs now that I saw then,”Justice Verma said, speaking at a panel discussion on the corporatisation of media organised by the Foundation for Media Professionals and Aruna Roy’s School for Democracy.
