Letters: Time to introspect

Equally tedious is the author's stance on the Indian media's inability

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar’s column, “Rise of print media and drop in press freedom” (May 10), presents only a partial picture of the Indian media. The author rightly celebrates the success of the Indian media, especially print media, bucking the global trend. She attributes its success to rising literacy rates, cost-effectiveness and comfort of home delivery of newspapers.
 
Her demand for unfettered freedom for investigative journalism, extending even to irresponsible reporting and smearing of reputations of people, businesses and organisations, however, is flawed. Just as the press has the right to accuse, the accused have recourse to law.
 
The criminal