Media and Right to Express

In fact both the words used as title are synonyms in many aspects. Freedom of expression is one of the basic rights in India provided by the constitution.Media and Press enjoy this freedom to a large extent and many opine that media is not in a political pressure in India.After sixty years of freedom or independence indian media has grown and expanded a lot. There are many ups and downs in the establishment of fourth estate. Now media or press in India plays an important role in the india politics, trade, foreign policy, internal security and many more. There are many positive things that can be attributed to media groups and press organizations. 

But there are many "buts" and "ifs" about media freedom and the use of freedom in this multicultural and pluralistic country India. For many reasons the press in india has lost its credibility and its right to be called a fourth estate. After the privatization of media groups there are plenty of News papers and News channels all over the India.They are all profit based corporates or business entities. These media groups and News channels are in the hands of some corporates. They speak only about their interests and show that brings capital to them. At the same time these corporate media groups also enjoy freedom of expression. They express what they feel is good, whether it is very bad for a section of india population. Such media groups induct the news that help them get revenue. They report only the things that favours their business thrive. This is one kind of "freedom of expression". They only show about beautiful cars, new bikes , latest chocolate brands , mouth wash , furnishings etc ,despite the fact that 40% of indian population is facing hunger and poverty in india is raising.

   The other quality of indian media is false and irresponsible reporting. Even this activity is done in the name of freedom of "expression".Indian free media report always in favour of political, trade, sectarian powerful community. They dont speak about the poor, deprived,dilapidated and backward communities of the nation. Now press in india want to take judiciary in its hands by speculatory reportings. They can level all types of charges once a person ( specially if he is from a backward community) and they try to prove a particular person a criminal. Media now feels that it is beyond judiciary. Recently Press council of inidia's chairman Justice markadey katju has raised severe concerns on the behaviour of media and press.He pointed out some major sins of media and press in india. I think that india media is monitored and controlled by a powerful hidden lobby that tries to dominate indian society in every aspect.There is a need to bring  a change in the behaviour and we have to redifine the media freedom.