Political ownership desirable
Even as the the regulator TRAI is moving to suggest curbs on political ownership of the media, editor-politician Chandan Mitra argued in a speech reported in the Pioneer on June 2 that " to make India morally strong political parties and the media should go hand-in-hand.” According to Mitra "no section of media can be impartial in a country where a lot of regional political outfits apart from national parties come to play their parts in the national scenario."