Karnataka - Bangalore

‘Present news as news, not views’

— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Veterans’ advice: Noted poet Nisar Ahmed (left) with lexicographer G. Venkatasubbaiah at the workshop in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Bangalore: Taking exception to the method and approach of electronic media in covering news events, veteran journalist S.V. Jayasheela Rao said incomplete sentences rendered orally, and inaccurate visuals would defeat the purpose of journalism.

He was speaking after inaugurating a media workshop organised by Bangalore Doordarshan on the occasion of its silver jubilee year of news coverage in the State here on Wednesday.

An objective reportage of issues such as social, political, cultural, industrial, agricultural and economic affairs would help the overall development of the society. But distorting news due to lack of understanding, or to impress people in power would not only jeopardise the professional ethics but also social and human interests. News should be presented as news and not views, he added.

The lexicographer G. Venkatasubbaiah said that employment of socially acceptable, culturally sound and grammatically correct language, both in print and electronic media, was vital in the dissemination of news.

Additional Director-General of Doordarshan news channel, Delhi, Aravind Manjit Singh, spoke . Poet K.S. Nisar Ahmed presided over the inaugural session.

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