Re: [HumJanenge] Press Council of India ordered to come out with facts on paid news

When the Report finally,in uncensored form hopefully,does appear on the website we'll all be interested in going through that.

Win "trust vote" "elections" ,"people's opinion",so on and so forth by hook,or by crook(more by crook),is what the murky politics,specially of Ruling dispensation has come to be known for.A very very sad,bad day for Indian ploity.

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, jaiprakash narain <coljpn@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

This is normal practice, in corrupt india the media is most corrupt. --- On Tue, 20/9/11, Manu <moudgilmanu@gmail.com> wrote: From: Manu <moudgilmanu@gmail.com> Subject: [HumJanenge] Press Council of India ordered to come out with facts on paid news To: "HumJanenge Forum People's Right to Information, RTI Act 2005" <HumJanenge@googlegroups.com> Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 9:10 PM The CIC has directed the Press Council of India (PCI) to upload the original report on paid news on its website by October 10, 2011. The report submitted by two member sub committee of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and K Sreenivas Reddy had named the big media houses which took money to publish favourable news of certain politicians during 2009 Lok Sabha elections. This not only violated the media ethics but also the political parties and candidates overshot poll spending limits without fear of any taxes because the transaction had been without any receipts. However, on July 30 last year, instead of making it public, the PCI decided to put the report in its archive as a reference document and came out with a brief report which deleted all the names of those found guilty and was full of recommendations and self regulation talk than the facts found. It was suggested that there was pressure form the powerful publishers' lobby against making the names public. The new report also excluded the portion on the lacunaes in the Working Journalists Act which had been pointed out in the original report. When I filed the RTI on January 3, 2011, the PCI refused to give the report claiming that it was seeking legal opinion. Even the first apellate authority did not intervene and hence CIC was approached. Information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi ordered the PIO to put up the report on the website under proactive disclosure clause of the RTI Act even if its a reference document. The original decision can be read here (http://www.rti.india.gov.in/ cic_decisions/CIC_AD_C_2011_000989_SG_14680_M_66957.pdf). Regards, Manu Moudgil Primary Catalyst, www.goimonitor.com