Showcause happy govt

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/11/2016

NDTV India says it has no record of the offending Pathankot coverage because it was live and  no record of coverage remains online after 3 months of telecast. The govt has the footage since it was captured by its TV monitoring cell in Delhi. The 24 hour blackout ordered is not the first against a TV channel but the first against a national news channel. When 26/11 happened the UPA govt issued an advisory but no show cause notices. The BJP government has issued six notices last year to news channels, three in connection with the Yakub Memon coverage, one to GSTV for making disrespectful remarks about Narendra Modi’s 9 lakh suit, and two others to a Telugu and Tamil news channel. But they did not culminate in bans.