<p class="title">Journalists should offer what nation has to know and not wants to know, Logical Indian Managing Editor Swetha Kothari said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was speaking after inaugurating ‘Article 19’, the annual fest of Manipal Institute of Communication, on the college premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swetha rued that the mainstream media had failed to discharge the duties as the fourth estate of the<br />country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She rued that the newsrooms had turned into battlefield in the aftermath of Pulwama attack, instead of questioning the credibility of security intelligence and its failure. A job of a journalist should be to question the failures of the government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Condemning the CAA and NRC, Swetha said that nobody had a right to undermine the Constitutional values and the Preamble. Nobody has a right to decide the citizenship based on the religion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">‘’We have failed our own people. The narrative ‘anti-national’ had become prominent,’’ she declared while referring to the abrogation of Article 370 and internet shutdown in Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She alleged that sedition law had been misused and it was an attempt to put a blanket on a person, who is raising his voice against the government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swetha said digital media had a wide scope, waiting to be explored by budding professionals of tomorrow. But there is a need of an independent agency to guarantee the efficiency and credibility of news, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She regretted that media had not woken up to the horror and catastrophes of climate<br />crisis.</p>
<p class="title">Journalists should offer what nation has to know and not wants to know, Logical Indian Managing Editor Swetha Kothari said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was speaking after inaugurating ‘Article 19’, the annual fest of Manipal Institute of Communication, on the college premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swetha rued that the mainstream media had failed to discharge the duties as the fourth estate of the<br />country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She rued that the newsrooms had turned into battlefield in the aftermath of Pulwama attack, instead of questioning the credibility of security intelligence and its failure. A job of a journalist should be to question the failures of the government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Condemning the CAA and NRC, Swetha said that nobody had a right to undermine the Constitutional values and the Preamble. Nobody has a right to decide the citizenship based on the religion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">‘’We have failed our own people. The narrative ‘anti-national’ had become prominent,’’ she declared while referring to the abrogation of Article 370 and internet shutdown in Kashmir.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She alleged that sedition law had been misused and it was an attempt to put a blanket on a person, who is raising his voice against the government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Swetha said digital media had a wide scope, waiting to be explored by budding professionals of tomorrow. But there is a need of an independent agency to guarantee the efficiency and credibility of news, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She regretted that media had not woken up to the horror and catastrophes of climate<br />crisis.</p>