1) Journalists in India say they are facing increasing intimidation aimed at stopping critical reporting of Prime Minister Modi and his administration.
2) Government ministers have coined terms like "presstitute" to describe journalists who are unfriendly or don't do their bidding.
3) A culture of impunity among officials puts journalists at risk of violence for exposing corruption, while many murders of reporters have gone unpunished according to a global press rights group.
1) Journalists in India say they are facing increasing intimidation aimed at stopping critical reporting of Prime Minister Modi and his administration.
2) Government ministers have coined terms like "presstitute" to describe journalists who are unfriendly or don't do their bidding.
3) A culture of impunity among officials puts journalists at risk of violence for exposing corruption, while many murders of reporters have gone unpunished according to a global press rights group.
1) Journalists in India say they are facing increasing intimidation aimed at stopping critical reporting of Prime Minister Modi and his administration.
2) Government ministers have coined terms like "presstitute" to describe journalists who are unfriendly or don't do their bidding.
3) A culture of impunity among officials puts journalists at risk of violence for exposing corruption, while many murders of reporters have gone unpunished according to a global press rights group.
1) Journalists in India say they are facing increasing intimidation aimed at stopping critical reporting of Prime Minister Modi and his administration.
2) Government ministers have coined terms like "presstitute" to describe journalists who are unfriendly or don't do their bidding.
3) A culture of impunity among officials puts journalists at risk of violence for exposing corruption, while many murders of reporters have gone unpunished according to a global press rights group.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 2
Debate
Topic 2
unfair to equate journalists with the media houses they work for because journalists are not agenda setters. While they are obliged to work under policies shaped by editors, editorial policies are themselves influenced as much by economic considerations as by political views of individual journalists or media houses.
minister in the country’s government and a former general at that, uses
such a term to describe the whole institution of journalism is a reflection of just how tolerant we are about abusing half of humanity: women, men who are perceived to be feminine, and persons of non-binary genders, sexualities, and sexual orientations.
India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some
measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the world. But journalists here say they are increasingly facing intimidation aimed at stopping them from running stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration
journalists are increasingly the targets of online smear campaigns by the
most radical nationalists, who vilify them and even threaten physical reprisals.”
“hate speech targeting journalists is shared and amplified on social
networks, often by troll armies.”
“Government ministers have coined this word, presstitute, to describe
journalists who are unfriendly to them or who don’t do their bidding,” A "culture of impunity" among Indian officials puts journalists at risk of violence for exposing corruption, while a string of murders of reporters have gone unpunished, a global press rights group said Monday. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said successive local and national governments have failed to promote freedom of the press in the world's biggest democracy. The CPJ, which defends the right of journalists to work freely, said intimidation and attacks on reporters were especially rife in rural areas of the vast country where local authorities lacked oversight.
