Role of The Media
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During pre-independence era, the role of the media was the voice of the unheard. But now, we see the Indian media engage in extortion, blackmail, paid-news, and attacking the monks by manipulating and misrepresenting and blaming the very people who were brutally attacked. They cast a doubt on the value, and significance of the Guru and typecasting the sacred principle as treacherous.
In the case of Ma Nithya Preetananda Swami, as per the laws laid out by the United Nations, the police authorities denied her right to recognition as a person before the law (Article 6) and the media directly violated that no one shall be subject to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation (Article 12).