Campaign for Accountability in Media
Right to Information Act 2005 is milestone legislation in the recent history that is designed to bring transparency in our polity, society and economy to successfully check corruption.
We need to bring important institutions under the purview of this act. Media as an institution needs to be under the purview of the RTI act. There is and there will be resistance from media houses on this but in the larger interest we need to move in this direction.
The demand to bring Media under RTI assumes more significance when our leading journalists and channel heads are found brokering with the political parties and determining the fate of Cabinet Ministers to benefit their advertisers or sponsors. The Nira Radia saga has been a classic example.
Other three pillars of democracy – Legislature, Executive and Judiciary – are already under the purview of RTI Act.
Corruption is rampant in media houses too in the name of paid news and public relation exercises. BeyondHeadlines, therefore, demand that media houses should fall under the ambit of RTI and it should also be included in the Lokpal bill.
To file your petition and to support this campaign in bringing accountability in the media click here http://beyondheadlines.in/?p=8341
For more detail visit BeyondHeadlines: www.beyondheadlines.in
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