Different standards

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/02/2012

Funny how the media becomes a champion of free speech when it wants to and wants to  curtail  free speech when it suits its ideology. While Times Now did  extensive coverage on the unfair ban on  Rushdie to visit JLF,  on another programme the channel's editor, Arnab Goswami moderated a debate about the ABVP ban on Sanjay Kak's film on Kashmir  being shown at a college in Pune. He asked  another filmmaker if he had obtained a censor certificate before putting his film on the web. The filmmaker said a censor certificate was not needed to screen to private audiences or to stream live on video.  Goswami quickly retracted::"We must remind ourselves that we are not the police nor the Censor Board"!