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Television Channels cause mental torture :Goa MP

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:06 AM PDT

Mr. Shantaram Naik, MP in a Special Mention made on Thursday, in the Rajya Sabha has demanded a ban on the showing of one single news throughout the day or days together causing mental torture to the viewers.

In a Special Mention Mr. Naik says that IPL controversy between a minister and BCCI Chief was the recent example and it happened on a day when there were 120 deaths reported in a tornado that hit Bihar and Bengal.  The news hardly got any coverage.

According to the television channels such tragedies, perhaps, carry no news value while IPL controversies mean everything to them, he said.

Giving an example, Mr. Naik says in a Special Mention, "Recently a marriage controversy was the food for thought of these channels.  For three days viewers were told that this is the only thing happening in the country".

Section 6 of the Rules framed under Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, the government has prescribed programme code, which is hardly complied with by television networks, Mr. Naik says.

Mr. Naik further says this code needs to be amended to prohibit telecasting one single item continuously, disregarding other national or regional items, more particularly, news relating to national tragedies.

In fact, the very provision of Rule 6 which prescribes programme code prohibits programmes which "offends against good taste and decency" but this provision may not be sufficient to curb the menace of repetition of torturous news-items and hence the need to amend the programme code suitably, Mr. Naik says.
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