Eminent Editors in solidarity with Media Unity for freedom of Press met on Saturday ( 19.02.1011 ) as per previous program. This was the first meeting of MUFP’s Media Advisory Panel.
While approving the White Paper, the MAP comprising the editors of newspapers and heads of news channels unanimously resolved to take up the issues relating to attack on the media at the appropriate level and to ensure that neither the Government nor any other agency nor individual would be allowed to take the media for a ride and all the attackers shall be brought to books without further delay.
The Council resolved to take up all issues of physical assault on media men on duty and use of tactics of intimidation such as threatening and implication in concocted cases to cripple their free functioning.
However, any physical involvement of any journalist in any tangle other than media related matters may not be considered in the category of attack on Press, the Editors felt.
Soumya Ranjan Patnaik( Editor, Sambad), Samahit Bal (Editor, Pragativadi), Tathagat Satpathy ( Editor, Dharitri), Promod Kumar Moahapatra ( Acting Editor, Samaj), Ashok Mohapatra (Head of Micro Broadcasting [MBC TV] ), Soumyajit Patnaik (Chief Editor, OTV) and Satkadi Hota (Editor, Samaya) participated in the deliberations coordinated by Prasanta Patnaik on behalf of MUFP.
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