Media ownership lacks public accountability By Deepak Parvatiyar (The article has been published in India Media Centre’s journal, Media Critique) We may blame the global recession for the impact on the Indian media industry where we witness frequent job cuts. But do these job cuts in the media industry make news like they do in other industries? Here is a case in point. Can our working journalists today agitate the way employees of debt ridden airline companies have done? While job cut in media sector goes unnoticed, it has a much deeper implications. In a recent seminar organized by Concerned Journalists’ Initiative presided by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, it was pointed out that the systematic and methodical destruction of working journalists’ unions by newspaper owners has done an irreparable harm to the working journalists’ cause and in the process, to the freedom of the pen. This has contributed to a breed of servile journalists whose first priority today is to secure
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