Indian private news and current affairs broadcasters have intended that they are stepping ahead to self-regulate their content. The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has come up with News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Authority to enforce NBA's code of ethics and broadcasting standards. A nine member authority will be headed by former chief justice and former NHRC chairperson Justice J S Verma. Its members are, historian Ramachandra Guha, former Nasscom chief Kiran Karnik, JNU don Dipankar Gupta and economist and ex-under secretary general of UN, Nitin Desai. Its editor-members are, India TV managing editor Vinod Kapri, Zee News group editor B V Rao, Star News managing editor Milind Khandekar and Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami. The authority, to which the public with grievance over television content can bring their grievances, will become operational on October 2.
NBA "believes that media that is meant to expose the lapses in government and in public life cannot obviously be regulated by government, else it would lack credibility.
Again censure
In Association's " a censure emanating from a jury of peers would indisputably affect the credibility of a channel." The process of censure would not be without its legal ramifications. "A channel acting in breach of established guidelines could hardly defend its motives or suggest that it was acting fairly, if it is censured by a jury comprising its peers."
Is it again a eye wash or something else
Mostly people think channels are not doing any kind of charity work. The TRP bonded force not allow them to stick them must hyped Code of conduct. Because everyone thinks that the comptetition is very high.
So these channels in the name of their USP not relent to come with their awkward contents. So it will take to prove their hyped words.
