Missing the big picture

This Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, like most others before it, seems focused on the micro rather than the macro

Lately the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been busy making announcements. Here are some.

It wants to install chips in your DTH boxes to measure what you are watching. It wants the Broadcast Audience Research Council or Barc to stop using the landing page of a channel for measurement. There were questions raised, going by media reports, on Barc’s shareholding. It wants to control fake news by taking away the accreditation of journalists found guilty of it. It wants to regulate online content. It wants DD’s Freedish to stop ‘subsidising’ private channels. 

Some of these, such as the fake news announcement,