Media on course to purging its ills

The threat from an interventionist state can be well witnessed from the fact that while the First amendment to the US Constitution reinforced Press Freedom making it unassailable for all times to come, the first amendment to the Indian Constitution introduced "incitement to an offence" as the eighth restriction to this freedom within the very first year of operation of the Constitution. As an obvious consequence that came about quickly, the Press (Objectionable Matters) Act, 1951 was introduced. In the following 18 months, 130 cases were registered against newspapers.

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