Newsworthiness

It was a chance visit to a site I often spend time at whenever I am starved of good reading material. For someone who takes more than mere academic interest in the Northeast, my click on the link "Murder of truth after murder at Gateway" was a foregone reflex action. After zipping through the article, I gave it a second read and empathised with the writer who made a clean breast of things: "I am...

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NEW DELHI, August 19: It had to happen sooner or later – the Supreme Court has issued notices on a petition questioning the publication of "titillating material" in the name of right to freedom of speech and expression enjoyed by the Press. Notices have been issued to the Union Government, the Press Council of India, the Times of India, Hindustan Times, the Press Trust of India (PTI) and the...

The Supreme Court on August 18, Thursday has issued notices to the Centre and the Press Council of India (PCI), two news agencies (Press Trust of India and United News of India) and two leading city dailies (The Times of India and the Hindustan Times), on a petition seeking classification of newspapers on the basis of whether their content is suitable for minors, which could be classified as Adult...

New Delhi: Mass-circulated national newspapers that write freely of sex in keeping with today's cosmopolitan India that no longer treats this three-letter word as taboo could end up getting classified in the same manner as films are. A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court, raising the point whether newspapers should be classified on the basis of sexually explicit material...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre, the Press Council of India, Times of India, Hindustan Times, the Press Trust of India and the United News of India on a petition questioning the publication of "titillating material" (in the two newspapers) in the name of right to freedom of speech and expression enjoyed by the Press. A three-Judge Bench comprising the Chief...

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 18: The issue of some newspapers using ‘‘titillating material’’ to woo readers today reached the Supreme Court, which issued notices to the Press Council of India, news agencies PTI and UNI, and dailies Hindustan Times and The Times of India. The PIL, filed by Ajay Goswami, sought classification of dailies on the basis of their content on the lines of what was being followed by...

New Delhi: A public interest litigation in the Supreme Court on Thursday raised a newsworthy, and pertinent, question: Should daily newspapers with sexually explicit material be given an ‘A’ rating for carrying content that in a film would see the Censor Board restrict it to adult viewing only? The apex court evidently concurred that it was a question that needed an expeditious answer. A three...

New Delhi, August 18: Should newspapers be classified on the basis of sexually explicit material contained in them similar to censor board categorising films for viewers? A PIL raising this question was on Thursday taken up for hearing by the Supreme Court and a Bench comprising Chief Justice RC Lahoti, Justice GP Mathur and Justice PK Balasubramanyan issued notices to the Centre, Press Council of...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday sought reactions from the government, The Times of India and Hindustan Times, on a petition questioning the publication of titillating materials in the two newspapers. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti and judges G.P. Mathur and P.K. Balasubramanyan issued notices to the government and the newspapers after the petitioner drew the court...