Media must verify foreign content before publishing: press council

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EDITORS GUILD PROTESTS PRESS COUNCIL'S ADVISORY The Editors Guild Of India (EGI) on Saturday, 28 November said that it is “perturbed” by the recent advisory from the PCI. “Editors Guild


urges the PCI, which should be committed to press freedom, to withdraw this advisory immediately,” the Guild said in a statement. The EGI raised concerns that the advisory could lead to


“some form of censorship and punitive actions against those organisations that publish content, which in its view is seen as ‘not desirable’”. EGI said that several publications reproduce


content from foreign agencies, newspaper and periodicals. The editor, in any case, is responsible for all the content published in their publication, the EGI statement said. “A reiteration


by the Council at this juncture of this established practice, in an ominous-sounding advisory, has disturbing implications,” it said.