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Indian TV Channel Disciplined for Terror Coverage

Prominent Indian editors and journalists have criticized the government for ordering a leading television news channel to go off the air for one day as a penalty for its coverage of a terror attack earlier this year.  The Editors Guild of India called the ban – the first on a media broadcaster for reporting terrorist attacks – "harsh censorship" reminiscent of emergency rule imposed in 1975, when fundamental rights were suspended in the world’s largest democracy. An...


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