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Presenting a paper on `Fascist depredations on the media' at the EMS seminar on `Fascist Threat: Underlying Processes' organised by the AKG Centre for Study and Research here today, Mr. Ram said the coverage of the U.S. aggression on Iraq by the Indian media would bear out the fact that it was far more objective than its U.S. counterparts when covering the war on Iraq. There was plenty of adverse editorial comment on the Vajpayee Government's reluctance to condemn the aggression and any analysis of the media should take this also into account, he added. Presenting a set of principles that young journalists should be taught, Mr. Ram said insistence on factuality, fierce adherence to freedom and independence, commitment to the principle of justice and fairness, humaneness and the willingness to contribute to the social good should be the guiding principles of all young journalists. Insofar as freedom and independence were concerned, there was not much ground for complaint as the freedom the media in India enjoyed was the envy of the developing world. On the question of justice, there was need to impress upon young journalists the theoretical basis of entitlements and facts about deprivations and injustice. Mr. Ram said that the analytical framework developed by Noam Chomsky had great relevance to the Indian media scene. The Indian media operated through the filters in much the same way as the U.S. media did. These filters size, ownership and profit orientation, dependence on advertisement revenue, reliance on information provided by the Government, corporate entities and experts toeing their line and the ideology of anti-Communism. The filters often operated in subtle ways. Chomsky and his fellow theorists had elaborated the interaction between these filters very much like a simple chemical reaction, he pointed out.
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