Smiriti Irani, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, seems to have piqued by the recent obdurate behaviour of Prasar Bharati over the appointments of top editors. She thinks it is a disregard of her ministry’s directives over appointments to the Prasar Bharati Board and in respect of senior editorial positions.
A. Surya Prakash had responded by expressing the view that the ministry’s orders constituted “contempt of the Prasar Bharati Act”.
Angered by the Prasar Bharati, the MIB Minister is now lashing out at DD for poor content. She has let off a fusillade against Prasar Bharati, the public broadcaster that’s meant to autonomously run Doordarshan, All India Radio and Prasar Bharati News Service, for reasons that seem self-serving. Her intervention doesn’t even pretend to throw light on the basic issues that inform the subject of the government’s control over mass media at the taxpayer’s expense, and more fundamentally, whether there’s any need at all for an I&B ministry.
She questioned the quality of DD’s content and wondered why it was worth the Rs 2,500 crores the public broadcaster received from “honest taxpayers”.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/national-news/item/12293-snubbed-by-prasar-bharati,-smriti-irani-now-lashes-out-at-dd-for-poor-content
Angered by the Prasar Bharati, the MIB Minister is now lashing out at DD for poor content. She has let off a fusillade against Prasar Bharati, the public broadcaster that’s meant to autonomously run Doordarshan, All India Radio and Prasar Bharati News Service, for reasons that seem self-serving. Her intervention doesn’t even pretend to throw light on the basic issues that inform the subject of the government’s control over mass media at the taxpayer’s expense, and more fundamentally, whether there’s any need at all for an I&B ministry.
She questioned the quality of DD’s content and wondered why it was worth the Rs 2,500 crores the public broadcaster received from “honest taxpayers”.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/national-news/item/12293-snubbed-by-prasar-bharati,-smriti-irani-now-lashes-out-at-dd-for-poor-content
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