BHUBANESWAR, FEB 12: Editors and news heads of leading Oriya and English newspapers and television channels have expressed their deep concern over the rising number of attacks on media persons in the state. Participating in the Editors’ Symposium on Media Freedom organised by the Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP) today in Bhubaneswar, the editors came down heavily on the state government for being indifferent to such incidents.
The editors expressed surprise over the fact that police had not taken any action on an elected member of the ruling Biju Janata Dal despite leading a brutal attack on Pipili-based journalist Rajat Ranjan Dash a week ago and said it strengthened the perception that the state government was against media freedom.
The editors and news heads resolved to join hands to ensure the media responds as one when faced with such challenges through an eleven member Media Advisory Panel which would sit at regular intervals to deliberate on major issues confronting media persons and the media.
Satakadi Hota, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Tathagata Satapathy, Samahit Bal, Pramod Mohapatra, Adhyapak Biswaranjan, Batakrishna Tripathy, Srimoy Kar, Soumyajit Patnaik and Ashok Mohapatra will be members of the panel. Senior scribe Prasanta Patnaik would act as the coordinator on behalf of the MUFP.
Its need of the hour.
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A great development really in the direction of giving some hope to the journalists and reporters who are working to bring the truth to public.
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