With situation tense in Delhi and clashes leading to loss of 18 lives, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued advisory for broadcasting news. However, there was no reference to the Delhi violence in the advisory issued on Tuesday, February 25.
It was a reiteration and reminder that telecasting news should not incite violence and must adhere to the “Programme and Advertising Codes as prescribed in the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 and Rules framed thereafter.”
The advisory states that: “It is hereby reiterated that all TV channels are advised to be particularly cautious with regard to any content which:
*is likely to encourage or incite violence or contains anything against maintenance of law and order or which promotes anti-national attitudes;
*contains attack on religious communities or visuals or words contemptuous of religious groups or which promote communal attitudes;
*contains anything defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendoes and half truths.”
