New Delhi: Press Council of India (PCI) Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Friday told delegates from International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based media watchdog, that he had taken up with state governments issues of protection of journalists and safeguarding them from undue pressure. During the meeting, Justice Katju told the delegation that he was committed to preserve the freedom of the media. The delegation comprised IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel...
04:21 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Patna: Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju said on Friday that the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government harassed the media if they wrote against it. Katju said the information he had gathered about the media in Bihar was "not good". He reminded the Nitish Kumar government that its alleged action against the press was a violation of the Constitution. A three-member PCI team will be sent to Bihar soon...
07:04 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Attacking Salman Rushdie, Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman Markandey Katju today said the "sensationalism" depicted by his book 'Satanic Verses' has deeply hurt Muslim sensitivities and that an individual's freedom of speech has to harmonised with the public interest. Justice Katju, who had last week termed Rushdie as a "sub-standard and poor writer", also questioned the Booker Prize awarded to the author saying it was "mystery" why...
04:26 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Wading into the debate over appearance of Sunny Leone on reality show Big Boss, Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Monday said the American porn star's past should not be held against her if her behaviour in India is "socially acceptable". Leone, when she was in America had not broken any American laws and that Indians were broad minded and liberal people who should take...
03:31 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Kolkata: Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Tuesday strongly advocated awarding 'Bharat Ratna' to late Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, describing him as one of the greatest writers of the world. "I would appeal to (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata Banerjee to take up with the President of India for awarding Bharat Ratna to Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay,'' he told newsmen on the sidelines of an interaction with members...
04:40 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Kolkata: Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju on Monday said his criticism of the media was not taken in the right spirit and a diatribe was launched against him. "When I criticised the media for what it was doing, my intention was not to destroy it, but to reform it. I wanted to remind the media of its solemn duty to the nation," Katju, who recently made headlines...
04:16 AM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: After his controversial remarks about the media Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas". Given this, the argument that the media should provide programmes and news as per the tastes of viewers degrades it to an ordinary business dealing in commodities,...
11:34 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: Dismissive about the self-regulatory mechanism of the News Broadcast industry, the Press Council of India chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, on Monday said if TV channels did not want to come under the Press Council they should choose another body like Lokpal. "Self-regulation is no regulation" and news organisations are "private bodies whose activities have a large influence on the public and they also must be answerable to the...
07:19 PM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has severely criticised comments made by Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on the media. The Guild said that Justice Katju's words had touched a new low in the discourse over the functioning of the media and it totally opposed the attempt being made by him to assume draconian powers to control the media, which are a violation of the very...
10:07 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has condemned the scathing remarks of the new chairman of Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, on the media. The Guild has also strongly opposed powers sought by Justice Katju to impose fines, withdraw ads and to suspend the licence to publish or broadcast. It noted that the council was led by someone who seemed like he wanted to invoke "fear" in...
07:23 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: Speaking to Karan Thapar, the new Chairman of the Press Council of India Markandey Katju slammed the media saying that he is very disappointed with the way in which the Indian media works. Katju also said that the media is not working for the interest of the people and sometimes divide the people of the country. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How does the new...
01:08 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Chairman of the Press Council of India Justice Markandey Katju has strongly criticised the way Television news channels function. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that a proposal to bring the electronic media under the Press Council's ambit is pending before the Prime Minister. Karan Thapar: What steps do you propose to take to bring news television or electronic media as a whole under...
08:06 AM, Oct 30, 2011
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