EC on paid news

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/10/2012

The Election Commission while announcing the dates for Gujarat and Himachal elections on Wednesday made a special mention of paid news. "So far paid news has been a learning process for us -but this time we will be monitoring paid news very strictly at the district levels and as soon as we suspect anything, notices will be issued. We hope we will be more effective this time in curbing 'paid news' then we have been in the past."

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