Ministry of I&B warns TV channels in opposition to gory and disturbing photographs, footages

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Centre has warned non-public tv channels in opposition to broadcasting gory footage and movies of useless our bodies, accidents, and girls, youngsters or aged in misery.

Referring to not less than 12 situations, the place blood-smeared photographs and pictures of our bodies and injured had been aired, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) on Monday ‘strongly’ suggested to attune their methods and practices of reporting incidents of crime, accidents and violence, together with loss of life in conformity with the Programme Code.

The ministry issued an advisory after observing tv channels for months. 

“Several television channels including mainstream channels have reported incidents of accidents, deaths, and violence including violence against women, children and elderly in manners which grossly compromised on ‘good taste and decency’, and were quite unpalatable to the eyes and ears of a common viewer,” learn the advisory.

Ministry of I&B cautions TV channels in opposition to broadcasting disturbing footage & distressing photographs

Gory photographs of blood, useless our bodies, and bodily assault in opposition to the Programme Code

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— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) January 9, 2023

Terming the telecast a matter of grave concern, the observe additional said that such reporting has an opposed psychological affect on the youngsters.

The method of reporting such incidents is distasteful, heart-wrenching, distressful, and sensational thereby offending good style and decency mentioned the ministry.

“There is also a crucial issue of invasion of privacy which could be potentially maligning and defamatory. In most of these cases it was also observed that these video clips, etc., have been taken by the broadcasters from social media and little effort has been made to modulate or attune or edit such clips so as to make them compliant and consistent with the spirit of the Programme Code,” the observe said.

Television, being a platform often watched by households in households with individuals from all cohorts – previous aged, middle-aged. youngsters, and many others., and with numerous socio-economic backgrounds, place a sure sense of accountability and self-discipline among the many broadcasters, which have been enshrined within the Programme Code and the Advertising Code laid down below the mentioned Act.

NEW DELHI: The Centre has warned non-public tv channels in opposition to broadcasting gory footage and movies of useless our bodies, accidents, and girls, youngsters or aged in misery.

Referring to not less than 12 situations, the place blood-smeared photographs and pictures of our bodies and injured had been aired, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) on Monday ‘strongly’ suggested to attune their methods and practices of reporting incidents of crime, accidents and violence, together with loss of life in conformity with the Programme Code.

The ministry issued an advisory after observing tv channels for months. 

“Several television channels including mainstream channels have reported incidents of accidents, deaths, and violence including violence against women, children and elderly in manners which grossly compromised on ‘good taste and decency’, and were quite unpalatable to the eyes and ears of a common viewer,” learn the advisory.

Ministry of I&B cautions TV channels in opposition to broadcasting disturbing footage & distressing photographs
Gory photographs of blood, useless our bodies, and bodily assault in opposition to the Programme Code
Click on the hyperlink beneath for Press Release:https://t.co/uWZ3xeRiSO@ianuragthakur pic.twitter.com/h7SQzjoMGw
— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) January 9, 2023
Terming the telecast a matter of grave concern, the observe additional said that such reporting has an opposed psychological affect on the youngsters.

The method of reporting such incidents is distasteful, heart-wrenching, distressful, and sensational thereby offending good style and decency mentioned the ministry.

“There is also a crucial issue of invasion of privacy which could be potentially maligning and defamatory. In most of these cases it was also observed that these video clips, etc., have been taken by the broadcasters from social media and little effort has been made to modulate or attune or edit such clips so as to make them compliant and consistent with the spirit of the Programme Code,” the observe said.

Television, being a platform often watched by households in households with individuals from all cohorts – previous aged, middle-aged. youngsters, and many others., and with numerous socio-economic backgrounds, place a sure sense of accountability and self-discipline among the many broadcasters, which have been enshrined within the Programme Code and the Advertising Code laid down below the mentioned Act.