Srinagar, Feb 22 (KNB) : Advertisement to two major daily newspapers, Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader has been stopped by the state government, despite media maintaining its neutrality even at the cost of lives.
So far, the decision has not been conveyed formally nor was any reason detailed to the respective originations.
While as, hitting the two institutions will impact the state and status of both, the journalists and the journalism in Kashmir though a negative intervention in this situation is clearly aimed.
As per the statement issued to KNS, KEG seeking attention of the Press Council of India and the Editors Guild of India to ensure that the media in one of the most sensitive states is not strangulated and discussed in a detailed meeting to fight the deliberate strangulation and subversion of the institution of media in the state.
A detailed report issued by the Press Council of India in 2018 detailing the issues and challenges that the Kashmir media is facing and also addressed certain misconceptions about the media in the report.
The Guild also wants to reiterate that the attempts at strangulating the media is in continuation of what has happened in last more than three decades.
Pertinently, Kashmir media lost more than 13 journalists as various printing presses were seized and countless cases were registered and are being continuously registered as part of the systemic but enigmatic media management in Jammu and Kashmir, being quite prone to rumours, the valley routinely overtake facts as it entails costs and consequences.
Interestingly, the strangulation bid came at a time when the media in general and the Kashmir media in particular, is putting up a huge and costly battle with the social media set ups to ensure the truth is cleanly and clearly separated and reported from mass rumour mongering.
KEG has called upon the state government, presided over by the Governor, and his policy makers that the negative intervention in the media is compromising the constitution as it goes against the constitutional guarantees within which the media operates in Kashmir and outside. (KNB)
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