Media News - Monday, August 25, 2008

Indian broadcasters plan to self-regulate content

The first initiative of India's private news and current affairs broadcasters to self-regulate their content has arrived, The Times of India reports. The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) announced on Friday the setting up of a News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Authority to enforce NBA's code of ethics and broadcasting standards. A nine member authority will be headed by former chief justice J S Verma. and comprises members who are historians, economists and TV chief editors. The authority, to which members of the public with grievance over television content can bring their grievances, will become operational on 2 October. In a statement, NBA secretary Annie Joseph said the NBA 'believes that media that is meant to expose the lapses in government and in public life cannot obviously be regulated by government, else it would lack credibility'. The association said it was important that news channels have guidelines and procedural safeguards, and establish a body that would act as a watchdog and forum to redress grievances. (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union)

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