“The priorities of today’s journalism have changed. Love for the nation used to be the driving force behind journalism in India. It is no longer true. Today, it is just another business driven by profit orientation,’’ Irrigation Minister and BJP leader Govind Karjol said in Belagavi on Sunday.
He was speaking at a conference, “Journalists and the Law”, organised by the Karnataka Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ).
“Mahatma Gandhi used the media to create awareness among the people about the freedom struggle. B.R. Ambedkar used the media to fight oppression and caste-based discrimination. As a journalist, Gandhi contributed greatly to Indian nationalistic thought. His writings about how the Congress was to be treated as a social movement and not as a political party are of great importance. Gandhi advised Congress leaders to wind it [party] up after Independence. But we have forgotten that,” he said.
