New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi slammed media and TV news channels for reporting the kissing controversy involving actors Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty. He said, "such channel are guided by purely commercial interests."
"In a mad race to increase their TRP ratings, the channels were repeatedly showing the footage of the kissing incident," Dasmunsi was quoted as saying by PTI.
The minister who had recently claimed he is proud to ban FTV and AXN for its "explicit content"—on the kiss controversy said, the channels are concerned solely about the TRP ratings while covering such news.
"They (channels) are repeating it 20, 50 and 100 times. Is this journalism? Some even showed it as breaking news. I do not know how this becomes breaking news. May be either somebody's head, brain or mind is breaking (by watching this)," he pointed out.
Dasmunsi however dumped the idea of putting curbs on the news channels. He said disciplining the media does not work in a democracy. "The government does not wants to put curbs on the channels," he said.
Contrasting his own statements Dasmunshi suggested more independent the media be, stronger it would grow, which is good for a democratic country. Dasmunsi said the Broadcast Bill was likely to be introduced in the next session of the Parliament.
With PTI inputs
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