News on CR? Impossible!
The I and B ministry held a Community Radio Sammelan recently in New Delhi. Union minister Manish Tewari held forth on how television news channels in the country have become "views channels" and disconnected from discourses amongst people. Hoping for backing for community radio, two not-for-profit CR bodies gave a joint petition to the minister asking him to repeal the ban on news on CR. His immediate response: "it is impossible"!