government exercises control over the media through various
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If we talk about print media then a copy of every printed material like newspapers, magazines, journals, research papers or books. A copy of every item is sent to Registrar of newspapers for India (RNI). Newspapers copy is sent on a daily basis and same happens with other printed materials like magazines, periodicals and books.
It is done under Press and Registration of Books Act 1867 under the British rule in order to curb Vernacular(Local language Press) Press rise.
The motive of doing this is that if anything derogatory or explicit or ethically wrong/misleading or anything which creates a threat to the security and sovereignty of the nation, then the publisher can be proven guilty and the paper acts as a proof which he/she can't deny.
Now in the context of Television.
It came to India in 1969 and initially government were controlling it by showing the people only those kind of programs which could inform, educate and entertain the people of the country.
Krishi Darshan was a program telecasted on Doordarshan to educate farmers.
Now after some years in the early 90's government were facing financial problems in running Doordarshan so they started providing/selling bandwidth to private news channels and Aaj Tak was the first private channel to speak on Doordarshan for a certain amount of allotted time.
Like today we show ads on TV and charge the advertisers.
In the 90s when private channels got boom and India was changing the first private channel came to India was of Zee network.
Initially they were working fine and there were no complaints against them.
You'd be surprised that even India TV was doing great journalism back then. But slowly the news channels turned into companies and millionaires bought them as per there convenience.
Then the quality of news started degrading and people were asking to regulate these channels some or the other way. Government of India was about to imply a law on them but before that all the private channels came along and asked to the court to not imply any governmental law. They instead proposed a self created guidelines and assured the court to abide by it. It is called NBA, News and Broadcasting Authority.
Some years went good but then everything was out of hand. They openly break the self created law by finding loopholes in it and nobody even file a case against them for doing so.