Advocacy unfair and one sided. 

From the newspaper article at page No. 17 of TOI dt. 21.8.2015( Delhi/ Noida/ Ghaziabad Edition ), I found that the PCI Chief, Justice CK Prasad has quoted Nehru Ji' following statement: " irresponsible media was better than controlled one".

With due respect to the PCI I beg to differ from him. In my view, the comparison can be made only after the role of media is assessed on the overall impact it has caused on the public. Media is not the custodian of the public interest . Protection of public interest is the job of the elected government and not of the media. If the government forms opinion that the behaviour of the media is detrimental to the interest of the nation and the public, the government, as the representative of and answerable to the public, has right to impose restriction on the media. 

What Nehru ji had said was relevant when we were subjects of the foreign power. If cannot be said that the foreign power was the custodian of the interest of the Indian people. In a country like ours which has a society badly fragmented, no one even the media should not be allowed to play with the sentiments of any section of the public if such sentiments are divisive in nature . In our country the role of the media is not constructive. The role of the media should ideally be to guide the government and government machinery . The role of the media is to point out mistake in the decision of the government, analyse the same to assess what good or wrong impact it may cause to public and to give government opportunity to correct it. Unfortunately, media is creating distrust against the government and its organs. Therefore, reasonable restriction on media is desirable in our country.