
Editors Guild Calls Gunfight Covering Directive as Draconian- Calls for Its Withdrawal
The editors Guild of India has issued a statement asking the Jammu Kashmir police to withdraw the advisory forbidding journalists from reporting live encounters.
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In its statement, the Editors Guild of India has said that, Visibly, the police are giving an impression of trying to maintain peace by attempting to control the fallout of violence in a high strung environment, but what is being instead done is an attempt by the security forces to escape from any kind of media scrutiny about the flow of events behind the violence.
The statement further read, "Live reporting from conflict areas, including encounters between security forces and militants, is one of the most import...
