Govt can’t blackmail media with ads: PCI

The chairman of the Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, on Monday took up a practice that has become quite common with the central and state governments - of stopping advertisements to newspapers and magazines that have published news articles that were critical of them. Describing the practice as "undemocratic" and betraying a "pettiness of mind'', Katju threatened to take legal action if such cases came to the notice of the Council.

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