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.
The attendees at the all-India seminar, organised under the banner of the Indian Journalists' Union, 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.
