New Delhi, January 28: Noting that the “DNA” of Indian media organisations has changed after liberalisation, Vice-President Hamid Ansari today warned that the phenomenon of paid news and coverage packages have a potential to tarnish the polity and destabilise the country’s economy.
“The recent practices of leveraging political and economic content in our media for overt and covert revenue generation have the malevolent potential to tarnish our polity and even destabilise the economy,” Ansari said.
Speaking at the inauguration of M C Varghese Memorial Lecture series here, he said this has led the Editors Guild and the Press Council to investigate “the phenomenon of electoral malpractices of paid news and coverage packages.
–Agencies