Manipur’s news website becomes first target of new rules on digital media, later withdrawn
India
Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 13:09 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 03: Paojel Chaoba, the executive editor of The Frontier Manipur, was the first journalist to get a notice under the controversial new rules to regulate digital content, including that on news websites. The notice was withdrawn by 6 pm after centre s intervention.
The notice has been served under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
The discussion, Khanasi Neinasi, was uploaded on the Facebook page of the The Frontier Manipur (TFM) on February 28. The panel discussion in question was titled, Media Under Seige: Are Journalists Walking A Tight Rope.
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Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing.
In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy.
That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the
Washington Post columnist. “Why have we not been able to do a single damning expose in Indian publications in the last five years?” she said. “…This is the time to take a stand and take an aggressive stand. Journalism is not even in danger, they have managed to intimidate us into silence, that process has happened.”
Editors Guild of India released Media Watch informing the world about Journalists being targeted by BJP government
February 4, 2021
Monitoring Desk: The Editors Guild of India has released a Media Watch informing the world about Journalists targeted in January 2021 by the BJP government, reports DND News Agency.
Modi government has taken strict actions against those journalists, media houses, and writers who showed impartiality in covering the Kisan Morcha protest a movement of Indian farmers demanding the abrogation of three agricultural bills targeting their property right on their lands. Through these new Agriculture bills, the Indian government is trying to strip farmers from their right of holding of lands and handover lands to big corporates for Corporate agriculture purposes.