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Claims of Media bias in South Asia attract constant attention. The question of bias in South Asian media is also of great interest to people living outside South Asia. Some accusations of media bias are motivated by a disinterested desire for truth, some are politically motivated. Media bias occurs in television, newspapers, school books and other media.

India

There have been claims that the history of the Islamic invasion and its atrocities on India is being systematically whitewashed and censored in Indian school-books and in other media

Reporters Without Borders condemned the media blackouts regularly imposed in Indian-administered Kashmir during times of unrest the report also stated that journalists were being harassed by local authorities. Furthermore the organization urged Indian government to stop using security and law and order as a pretext for the media blackout.

Many media stations in India provided vast coverage of the Gujarat Riots in 2002 in which a large number of Muslims were murdered but have often failed to report on the persecution of Hindus in Muslim-dominated Jammu & Kashmir. There are also denials of the fact that Indians in general and Hindus in particular are being ethnically cleansed in Kashmir. With regard to the 2002 Gujarat violence, some commentators have pointed out a disregard for factual reporting on the part of what they term "left-liberal" newspapers.

Pakistan

Indian professor Romesh Diwan of the Center for Indian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth claimed the reduction of the population of Hindus in Pakistan has not received adequate coverage and alleged that the media was not informing the public about these issues.

Sri Lanka

The government of Sri Lanka has been accused of controlling the media. Measures like the Public Security Ordinance and the Sixth Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution have been accused of limiting a reporters freedom.

The Sixth Amendment to Sri Lanka's constitution, inserted as Article 157A, has been accused of threatening civic disability and seizing of property by banning promotion of separatism. The Public Security Ordinance (PSO) law is often applied liberally when the government applies emergency regulations. This is quite often as Sri Lanka has been ruled under Emergency for a cumulative total of over 20 years since it gained independence from the British. The Saturday Review, the English paper published in Jaffna and the Aththa, the Communist Sinhala language daily were banned in the early eighties under the PSO. When the Aththa was banned its press was also sealed. In the seventies, the government sealed the printing press of the Independent Newspapers Ltd. (Davasa Group) by using the emergency regulations.

Under the Emergency Regulations (E.R), all material relating to a subject specified in a gazetted presidential proclamation, has to be submitted for censoring by a 'competent authority.' The 'competent authority' is usually politically favoured civil servant. Recently, the regime made history by appointing a military officer as the government censor. Material censored under such provisions has included comment on the high cost of living, on the dismissal of an employee of a state corporation, allegedly for an article he wrote for his trade union journal, on the marketing problems of passion fruit growers, criticism of a minister's statement in Parliament about a public corporation, and a reference to an alleged assault on two civilians .

See also

• Media bias
• Media bias in the United States
• Media bias in the Middle East
• Censorship in South Asia
• Indian journalists

Further reading

• Elst, Koenraad. 2014. Negationism in India: concealing the record of Islam. ISBN 978-8185990958
• Shourie, Arun. 2014. Eminent historians: their technology, their line, their fraud. HarperCollins. ISBN 9351365921 ISBN 9789351365921

References

1. Review by CJS Wallia Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, indiastar.com
2. https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-condemns-kashmir-media-blackout-indian-authorities
3. Left-liberal media subverts truth Daily Pioneer - August 7, 2011
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-07-18. Retrieved 2006-12-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• saag Bangladesh
• Indymedia, India
• Arun Shourie on "Eminent historians"
• Historians versus history - Ram Swarup
• Amnesty International

• Media bias controversies
• Media-related controversies in India
• Media in Pakistan
• History of Pakistan media
• Propaganda in Pakistan