The Editors Guild issued a statement today condemning “recent incidents of intimidation and harassment of journalists by political leaders while doing their jobs”. “This trigger-happy approach to browbeat and harass reporters and camera persons undermine the freedom of the press,” it said.
The guild singled out two news events – an exchange between BJP minister Smriti Irani and a stringer in Uttar Pradesh, and an FIR against an Asianet journalist in Kerala.
