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Media contiguous is moving distant from the traditions of Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai and Kesari Balakrishna Pillai who believed that journalism was a mode to rebuild society, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
He was speaking astatine the presumption of the 2024 Swadeshabhimani-Kesari award, State media awards, and the photography awards for 2021 and 2022 present connected Thursday.
Reflecting connected the changes successful media post-Independence, the Chief Minister observed that the haste to marque profits had seen a diminution successful values. The unhealthy tendencies that the media had fought against during the reformation successful the State were present being encouraged by it. Superstitions and regressive customs had gained a foothold successful the media.
Globalisation led to the emergence of media corporations. Advocates of planetary superior were adjacent to powerfulness centres. This corporate-power centre nexus is protecting some capitalist and governmental interests. The interaction of this could beryllium seen now, the Chief Minister said.
He alleged that determination was a inclination to onslaught the authorities without going into the merits of the claims oregon charges made. Even if it was proved successful tribunal that the charges made were baseless, a bulk of the media were not acceptable to archer the nationalist astir the truth. “Media has the work to archer the radical what they should know,” the Chief Minister said.
At a clip erstwhile journalists were nether onslaught and adjacent jailed for doing their work, the State authorities was honouring journalists. Several critics of the authorities were among the recipients of the awards. Since the authorities was not acrophobic of disapproval and it was required for autarkic journalism, it did not intervene successful the grant selection. The authorities was steadfast that merit unsocial should beryllium the ground for the awards, the Chief Minister said.
Malayinkeezhu Gopalakrishnan who had been selected for the Swadeshabhimani-Kesari grant was a seasoned writer with decades of experience, Mr .Pinarayi said. He ever focussed connected facts and was insistent that quality should not beryllium rumours, the Chief Minister pointed out.
Mr. Gopalakrishnan shared his joyousness connected receiving the grant from the Chief Minister astatine the historical Durbar Hall.
Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty presided implicit the function.
