Instant online opinions impoverish our public sphere
Social media activists seem to have different notions about corrective action, fairness, and fairness. They want retribution, revenge, and punishment instead of the non-punitive course correction, which is the essential function of a news ombudsman. A news ombudsman adopts a light approach to visibly correct errors. I refrain from naming the journalist when reporting errors or the sub-editor in case of editing errors because the main objective is to correct the error instead of stigmatizing the people who work under the pressure of the deadline. A disturbing element about the strident criticism of activists is the suggestion of excessive reach and failure to comply with other rules in their overwhelming focus on a single issue.
Reporting on mental health
At 3:07 pm On September 30, there was a tweet accusing Hindus of insulting reports on mental health. The reference to a Delhi report entitled "A mentally ill woman loses an 8-month sound", published on April 21. It is a shameful demonstration of indifference. First, this activist presumed that the health journalists were following him and that his tweet would have been noticed. Secondly, he did not write to the office of the editor-in-chief of the readers, who was appointed to investigate such errors. Third, for acceptable reasons, he did not mention that the sensitive and sensitive Hindu report was published in the 2017 Mental Health Act, which came into force only on 7 July 2018. The new law emphasizes that the privacy of the patient must be preserved and prohibited. Are they not Indian laws of a prospective and non-retrospective nature, unless otherwise indicated? How did the Hindus break a law?
The problem is complicated by a newspaper like The Hindu because its online archives are available as of 2000. Is it correct to publish an old article and eliminate it because it violates a later law? Can we change our past to reflect the present? Is it fair to play with footage? Can you configure the story in such a way that all controversial problems are removed from the public domain? For the past six years, I have tried to explain in detail why this magazine generally refrains from modifying or taking a story. Does the non-existence of online documents mean that they do not exist otherwise in the archives? What about the existence of the physical journal, which contains content that some readers wish to eliminate, not only in the newspaper office but also in several public libraries?
Activists working on the same topic tend to forget the demands of a complex multi-level society, which media experts describe as a public interlocutor, and to propose solutions that may not empower in the long term but undermine some sources of plural coexistence.
Laws related to the newsroom
I would like to share a part of a recent note relating to the newsroom. In addition to well-established defamation laws, both criminal and civil, he enumerated more than 25 specific laws that govern history. For example, I disrespect the court when, technically, fair criticism is permitted, but there are instances where the courts inconsistently interpret what a fair comment is. Legislative privilege, where we still have to codify the privileges of our elected members, is a powerful tool for keeping the media related. The laws relating to sexual crimes, juvenile crimes, and crimes against children are explained to each journalist and sub-editor during their period of admission to the press room. Twitter's warriors may not be aware that a newspaper may be prosecuted under Rule 13 of the Aircraft Rules, which states that "no person shall take, make or allow to be taken at a government aerodrome or from an aircraft in flight, no photo. "Instead of studying thinking, many cyberspace actors emit instant opinions and impoverish our public sphere.
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