{"id":2272,"date":"2012-02-01T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/2012\/02\/01\/malpractice-of-paid-news-is-widespread\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:21:44","slug":"malpractice-of-paid-news-is-widespread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/malpractice-of-paid-news-is-widespread\/","title":{"rendered":"Malpractice of paid news is widespread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tI have been receiving complaints from several quarters that in the on-going elections in five States, the malpractice of paid news is widespread.&nbsp; This is a threat to free and fair elections, and it undermines the foundation of democracy and shakes the people&rsquo;s faith in the media.&nbsp; This malpractice will subvert parliamentary democracy in the country, unless ruthlessly stamped out.<\/p>\n<p> \tA severe warning is given to all media persons, candidates and the election authorities that strong action will be taken against those indulged in this malpractice which is a blot on democracy.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe Press Council is happy that the Election Commission has already set up Media Monitoring Committees district-wise, and we request these committees to keep a strict watch on suspected cases of paid news and report forthwith to the concerned Election Commission authorities as well as to the Press Council.<br \/> \t&nbsp;<br \/> \tJustice Markandey Katju<\/p>\n<p> \tChairman,<\/p>\n<p> \tPress Council of India<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> \tPress Release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \tI have been receiving complaints from several quarters that in the on-going elections in five States, the malpractice of paid news is widespread.&nbsp; This is a threat to free and fair elections, and it undermines the foundation of democracy and shakes the people&rsquo;s faith in the media.&nbsp; This malpractice will subvert parliamentary democracy in the country, unless ruthlessly stamped out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-comment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}