{"id":240172,"date":"2020-12-04T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=240172"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T10:59:04","slug":"egi-advises-media-organizations-to-display-fairness-objectivity-and-balance-in-reporting-farmers-protests-media-have-been-labelling-them-as-khalistanis-anti-nationals-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/12\/04\/egi-advises-media-organizations-to-display-fairness-objectivity-and-balance-in-reporting-farmers-protests-media-have-been-labelling-them-as-khalistanis-anti-nationals-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"EGI advises media organizations to display fairness, objectivity, and balance in reporting farmers&#8217; protests; Media have been labelling them as &#8220;Khalistanis&#8221;, &#8220;anti-nationals&#8221;, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Editors Guild of India is concerned about the news coverage of the farmers&#8217; protests in the national capitals, wherein certain sections of the media have been labelling them as &#8220;Khalistanis&#8221;, &#8220;anti-nationals&#8221;, and other such terms to delegitimize the protests without any evidence or proof. This goes against the tenets of responsible and ethical journalism. Such actions compromise the credibility of the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EGI advises media organizations to display fairness, objectivity, and balance in reporting the farmers&#8217; protests, without displaying partisanship against those who are exercising their constitutional rights to express themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media shouldn&#8217;t be complicit to any narrative that derogates dissent and stereotypes protestors based on their attire and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Editors Guild of India<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">[Media Advisory dt. 04-12-2020]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors Guild of India is concerned about the news coverage of the farmers&#8217; protests in the national capitals, wherein certain sections of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":212020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[34414,44312,44313,3562,44314,44315],"class_list":["post-240172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-editors-guild-of-india","tag-egi","tag-farmers-protests","tag-media","tag-national-capitals","tag-news-coverage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EGI advises media organizations to display fairness, objectivity, and balance in reporting farmers&#039; 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