On 13 December 2011 21:33, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13-Dec-11 9:24 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > Censoring is perhaps the wrong word, I admit. But a report that > > misrepresents/omits facts to swing opinons, etc. should bar the > > journalist from the press association and make sure nothing he or > > she writes is published again. > > Swinging opinions is a crime? >
Not a crime, but against the professional code, especially when you misrepresent and intentionally omit facts. > > > Professional ethics should be enforced somewhere, or we wait till a > > country of more than a billion wisen up and stop drinking the kool aid. > > Enforced by? And they in turn? > I don't know Udhay. The buck has to stop somewhere. Or do you think something else will work in a country where the information asymmetry (heck, even access to information) is probably much greater than the economic disparity? And thank you Salil for comparing it to Lokpal. Reductio ad Hazareum? Kiran
