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Indian Journalists' Union calls for law to protect scribes, tackle fake news
Updated On: 02 October, 2023 09:40 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Journalists and experts from different fields deliberating on challenges confronting the media "on a daily basis" have called for a central law to protect "truth-seeking journalists" and censure those peddling fake news
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The attendees at the all-India seminar, organised under the banner of the Indian Journalists` Union in New Delhi, pitched for setting up a media commission, a long-standing demand, saying that though the Press Council of India is "strong constitutionally," it doesn`t have the authority of a commission.
"The Indian Journalists` Union organised a national-level seminar to deliberate on the challenges that are confronting the media at all levels on a daily basis and how to bring them within the ambit of the law to protect truth-seeking journalists and censure fake and paid news peddlers," seminar coordinator and former IJU president S N Sinha said in a statement on Sunday.
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