The news story “News channels’ first date with self-regulation goes awry” (April 12) is shocking in what it says about the electronic media.Through the years, India TV has wowed audiences with all manner of interviews and sensational news, the kind not seen on some of the other channels.
It now transpires that not all of this news may have been authentic. India TV has been hauled up by the industry’s self-regulating body, headed by a former chief justice of India, for carrying a fake interview, an interview that never took place — the person, a US resident, never gave the interview, but India TV, using a voiceover, gave the impression the interview was real.
I wish there would be similar exposes of other channels and people would stop lionising these journalists who indulge in these disgusting tactics. More often than not, however, the journalists become heroes, and such news gets buried in the inside pages of a few newspapers.
Sameer Anand, New Delhi
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