Internationalising his angst

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/11/2011

Justice Katju, attending a World News Summit in Hongkong, rose to tell a panel that he was a former supreme court justice from India, now Chairman of the Press Council, and in India, a country with 80 per cent of the people living in horrible poverty, 90 per cent of the news coverage was about entertainment and cricket. What did the panel have to say about that? The panel said India was ripe for reporting with mobiles from the villages, and people should be using this tool to get news from places they could not reach before. We don't know whether that satisfied Mr Katju.

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