Should television media news channels be restricted to an extent or not.....????

yes they should be restricted, last week whn saddam was hanged two kids playing @ home copied the saem thing, its the family's fortune tht their mother noticed it earlier and stopped. so it should be restricted to wht u should show n what not.

yes that is absolutely true.we as a watcher dont realize it but for the one for whom the news is sensitive it really tears him apart. that is the reason why sometime an issue is made for something which is very petty

I do believe that the media should be restricted in covering different areas. I also feel that the media is put into great danger by covering certain things, like in the Middle East during the wars. They should not be out there with everything that is going on. There are some things that should not be in the news. The looting in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina could give other people ideas of doing the same thing in their areas as well. The more people here about really bad things, the more likely other people will do the same things. We need more positive news and less negative things.

they must be. they must dwell in the personal life of anyone especially film star just becaz of the fact that it makes their trp shoots up. they are considered as the fourth pillar of democracy, they are hte voice of people and they must do serious journalism and not make report on raveena tandon;s dog.

The only restriction the press should have is a requirement to report only factual information. Here's what I imagine you want the news to be like: "Today, nothing bad happened anywhere in the universe. Everyone is healthy, and they have everything they've ever wanted. There are no corrupt governments on earth. There are no genocides occurring. No one is hungry. The temperature is always seventy degrees fahrenheit. It will only rain on plants that we need for food and oxygen." The world isn't like that. Sometimes horrible things happen. Sometimes you need to know about these horrible things, because maybe you can do something about it. If you give the government the power to silence stories you don't want to hear, they'll eventually use that power to silence stories you want to hear.

yeah definitely..they shud certainly have a restriction...today media has become the greatest learning channel..children very easily mearn what they see on the tv n try to imitate it..so they shud be a restriction..

There should be some restrictions on TV channels as they bring a big influence to people and that could end up in riot.

Its all about ratings and nothing more, regardless of who gets hurt. on the other hand there is freedom of speech, and i am guilty of this sometimes when i do my radio show, not to start riots but to give people something to think about on certain topics. It doesnt just stop on television news, newspapers often stretch the truth many times to make better headlines. I stopped watching CNN aka Communist News Network since they are one sited and often do not report the facts.

Tv should be censored. Nothing should be censored. Parents need to learn to teach there children better and to make the own decisions. If you don't want your child watching or listening to something, don't go after the creators. just teach your kids and theyll be smart. its so simple its almost pathetic! :)

Oh dear.. Is freedom of the press not a thing to cherish and defend at all costs? We witness, as time goes by the amalglamation of small independent publishers, into giant news Corporations. They can control what a country thinks and unduly influence elections and even decisions as important as whether or not to go to war! You people who call for controls should be careful, you may get what you wish for. Untill the day comes when you realise you have no news worth having and have to search for the truth, whilst your neighbours accept the lies of a press more powerful that your elected government.

I do agree that some things should be restricted. Especially the showing of violent scenes over and over and over. I'm sure that people remember how many times some of the Sept. 11th bombing scenes were shown repeatedly on television taht day. Some people felt that that was too much. It was hard enough to view those scenes at all, let alone view them a hundred times. And yes, a lot of news and programs are sensationalist in order to try to get more viewers.

I do think we get a little too much bad news but it is our choice to watch it or not it does seem like they go over board hyping up stuff for ratings but again its our choice

I have to agree with you. At the moment I am in Iraq. I for one am against having Media follow us everywhere. I think if we pull out the media from Iraq this will all be over faster then anyone thinks. It is the media who sturs up the insurgence and gives them glory. Just because we go around checking for weapons cache's in baghdad and a riot breaks out, if the media was not there then tikrit will not know about it and there would be no chance of rioting up there. Everytime an american soldier gets killed, his face is plastered on the news. Giving the enemy a heads up that what they are doing is working. So they continue it. Good discussion.

the only feeling i have towards this subject is when the major co-operations (McDonalds and Pepsi to name a few) go onto childrens channels during childrens viewing hours and advocate their product that has been proven medically bad for the body to the childs open mind. The thing that really gets me angry is when McDonalds create cartoon series that send off subliminal messaging to the childrens mind to crave their product. It quite frankly makes me sick. These silly lobbiests in Washington need to get a real job.. no offence!

When commercial interest i.e, the motive of profit maximisation gets dominant in policy and principle , the media forget their social responsibility . I find it ridiculous when those who control such mass media tells that it s their responsibity to higlight the truth. Because more often than not they resort to half truth .But when they sense a chance of sensationalisation of a piece of news ( "story" in their vocabulary ), they goes to the deepest "truth" . This gives them a opportunity to create events that become new news and they can continue it unendingly until another story comes up . There should be in place some mechanism like Banking Ombudsman who can keep a tab on their code of conduct . This is very important in case of a communal riot like unfortunate happenings . Because , unmindful exposition of such news may proliferates such unfortunate happenings to more areas .

Obviously they should be limited to some extent. But this is not as easy as we think. Since news media is constantly getting new news or changing its contents .. we can't monitor it by applying it to any censor or something like that . Neither can we make any specific rules regarding news. Because that way people will be deprived of important news. But.. few things can be done. .. displaying Obvious crimes .. shall be banned.. as they just create mental distortion. .. Personal lives intrusion shall be banned. .. any more suggestions?

yes...u r absolutely right dear.....media must b restricted to a limit...! nowdayz, the media is deteroriating theircontent.... and this is disgusting as they r leaving a negative stress on the childrens today.....really, a strict action must b taken against the tv media!

i agree with what u say, but u restiction of new channels is not the solution, the point is they want viewership and this is the best way out. the main aim of a new channel is to show reality stuff u know ,either these people need to make a statement that so and so... ,so thus it can solve the problem by not creating riots creation of a new channel is a better way of getting extra news is what i fell ie may be one channel is able to cover some news , where as the other channel is able to cover the whole news.As of my country there no such thing as riots for such matter.

I feel restricted in the sense that some amt of privacy should be decided upon and amount of news that can be delivered while case in court is being active or has to undergo trial ....also news channel need of distinguish between whats really breaking incident for them..now days for increasing TRP almost evry introduced channel keeps on reporting any story as breaking news.......really ridiculous!!!!

You know Bob Marley once said that the greatest plague of today's television is the news because there you can see things that you didn't imagine could happen completely and without any kind of restrictions, uncensored. I too think that the new should be restricted or censored. Why do they censorship movies and games and all kind of other stuff but you can easily watch the news. I think more criminals that are born by the influence of TV used to watch the news :)