Studying paid news

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/11/2009

The Press Council of India (PCI) has set up a committee to study the "paid news syndrome", in the recent elections, its chairman Justice (retd) G.N. Ray said on Nov. 16 "A committee has been set up to collect inputs from various parts of the country and make in-depth study of the malady of paid news syndrome in elections and to make its recommendation to the council," he said.