Editors being too compliant: Kuldee

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Editors being too compliant: Kuldeep Nayar

>From Pune Herald, Maharashtra State
September 19, 2000

Eminent journalist, diplomat and Rajya Sabha member Kuldeep Nayar observed 
that the Press could hardly express itself fully because today?s editors 
were being ?too accommodating and adjusting?.

He was delivering his key note address at the opening of the three-day 
?Workshop on Media and Democracy? organized by Symbiosis Institute of Mass 
Communication and Mizzima News Group, on Monday.

Nayar endorsed the views earlier expressed by Prof U. K Chowdhury, Director 
of Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication that the press had not lived up 
to its expectations in the country.

Former Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani who spoke about the draconian 
emergency era called for repealing the Preventive Detention Law. Compared to 
the situation in Myanmar where democracy had been crushed under a ruthless 
military regime, Jethmalani said that the situation in India was much more 
stable now.

Soe Myint, secretary of the Mizzima News Group said that the media in 
Myanmar was totally controlled by the government.

Noted Ad. Filmmaker Prahlad Kakar enlightened the audience about his 
experiences in Myanmar and remarked that the best thing about Myanmar was 
that inspite of their many trials and tribulations, the people there still 
dared to dream.




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