New Delhi, October 18: Government has no intention to regulate the content of television news channels but will create an independent autonomous body to look into all aspects of the broadcasting sector, says Information and Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni.
“Believe it or not, we are not putting a regulator to monitor content, that is not the intention of the government at all. It would be an independent autonomous body, without government control, which will look at all the ministry related issues,” she said speaking to Karan Thapar on his programme ‘Devil’s Advocate’ on CNN-IBN,
When asked further as to why the ministry was planning to have a regulator for television news channels even though it has no such plans for the print media, Soni said, “What we are talking about is a mechanism. You may call it a regulator.
–PTI