Last week there was a flutter in media circles in India as one TV news channel telecast clips of a well-known actress while she was in her bathroom of the jail she was lodged in. The actress's counsel moved the court which then directed the TV channels not to telecast the clipping. (Source of the news item: click here.)
The issue here is whether a news TV channel can telecast such a picture which is embarrassing to the actress and which may be unsuitable for family viewing. Even if the intent of the channel was to give out the shocking news item that a woman's bathroom in a jail had a hidden camera, there was no need for it show the offensive clip. The TV channel was unethical and wrong in showing it. The peg of the news item should have how even jail authorities colluded in getting the camera fixed and not the visuals from the clipping.
The channel too should have been pulled up and even prosecuted for breaching rules and propriety. A news channel or news publication can't violate well-known and well-accepted limits of human decency. Journalism doesn't give anyone a licence to do anything and everything under the excuse of objectivity and showing reality.
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