This ppt talks about privatisation of media in India.

1. PRIVATIZATION OF MEDIA IN
INDIA
BY
Madhav Dwivedi
B.A.LL.B. 3RD YEAR
SUBMITTED TO- Respected Prof. Rajneesh Dubey Sir

2. OUTLINES OF PRESENTATION
WHAT IS MEDIA ?
OWNERSHIP OF MEDIA
ISSUES WITH INDIAN MEDIA
GLOBAL PRESS FREE INDEX
SOLUTIONS
CONCLUSION

3. WHAT IS MEDIA ?
• Media is medium to communicate with
masses.
• It include newspapers, radio, television,
films, internet, books, magazines, and
everything that provides the
information.
• There are three types of mass media-
Print Media, Electronic Media, New age
Media.
• Indian media is one of the oldest and
largest media in the world.

4. OWNERSHIP OF MEDIA
The ownership of media houses in India currently are of
following types:-
1. People from media background or they don’t had any other
business apart from media
2. People from big corporate families and big businessman’s.
3. People from political background or people belonging from
political parties or if they have some direct interest in political
parties.
4. Property dealers, Builders, people doing chit funds, Mafias,
Criminals etc.

7. ..

8. ISSUES WITH INDIAN MEDIA
Ownership of media- People from different sectors such as political,
businessman, etc are owners of media houses and they had major influence in
media houses.
Business model of Indian Media
Pressure from external and internal sources.
Revenue Problem for proper functioning and the model from where they are
earning.
The ownership of media houses is in hands of big corporates rather than in the
hands of editor itself.
Viewers and Readers want content to be free or they have to pay minimal price
only.
Sometimes media plays more focus on paid news rather than the actual news.

9. “पहले अखबार छप कर बबकते थे, अब बबकने क
े बाद छपते हैं”
“From big to small, people involved in all kinds of other
businesses also tend to control media organisations and the
editorial and news columns reflected the envious conflict of
the different interests they have”
Arun Jaitley Ji
“Independent journalism is the backbone of democracy, and
the journalists are the eyes and ears of the public. When a
media house had commercial interests, it becomes
vulnerable to external pressures. Often commercial interests
wind up in the spirit of independent journalism, thereby
compromising democracy.”
N.V. Ramana Ji, Former Chief Justice of India

10. GLOBAL PRESS FREEDOM INDEX
 The Press Freedom Index is an annual
ranking of countries compiled and published
by Reporters Without Borders since 2002
based upon the organisation's own
assessment of the countries' press
freedom records in the previous year.
 It intends to reflect the degree of freedom
that journalists, news organisations,
and netizens have in each country, and the
efforts made by authorities to respect
this freedom.

11. In initial year 2002, the ranking of India was 80.

12. SOLUTIONS
 Transparency in ownership of media.
 As suggested by TRAI, there should be financial disclosure of media houses and
from where they get their revenues.
 Disclosure of property by media owners and appointment of ombudsman.
 Allocation of proper budget for media houses.
 Getting readers ready to focus on pay news, instead of free news.
 Transparency in appointment of journalists.
 There should be formation of complaint commission of press, as suggested by
TRAI.
 Implementation of ethics in media houses by the Press Council of India.

13. “Whenever an incident occurs, the duty of journalists is that without giving
their opinions they should put all the information in front of people, and
then people will decide on their own what they want to believe and what
they do not want to believe and what they want to understand and what they
not. So the problem here is that is explained to you, that from this particular
incident, you understand this. The journalist who is delivering information
to you, due to that information many policies get affected. It is a very big
responsibility of a journalist that he speaks very thoughtfully.”
Aapka Madhav

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