Self-regulation of news channels need to be strengthened, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it wants to ensure that the self-regulatory mechanism for monitoring television news channels is strengthened, reported Live Law.

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra granted four weeks to the News Broadcasters and Digital Association to come up with a revised set of self-regulatory guidelines.

Last month too, the Supreme Court had expressed its concerns about the ineffectiveness of the mechanism while hearing a petition by the broadcasters’ body challenging observations made by the Bombay High Court about the self-regulatory mechanism for media. The court had said that the existing self-regulatory mechanism lacks sanctity within the statutory framework.