Media Laws

India Legal News: If someone told me a decade back that for election publicity purposes a candidate can do without the ‘internet’ I still could have believed him then, NOT TODAY. The spiraling influence of the electronic and online media combined with the traditional media is increasing by the day and best or the worst part is that the outcome is not predictable but influential.

Content regulation has always been the bone of contention between the government and media houses. The government wants to regulate media content to make it suitable for universal audience. Media owners aim to drive revenues through sensationalizing content to draw more viewers from the buying class of the society. They support self-regulation instead of state control.