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When the new chairman of the Press Council of India says he has a low opinion of the media and journalists are of "poor intellectual level", you can just hear the hurrahs from the cheap seats. With the finesse of a pugilist, Justice Markandey Katju delivered his observations to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN.  He then went over the same points in The Hindu: the media are "anti-people" because they focus  on such "non-issues" as filmstars and cricket instead of honour killings and poverty.  Self-regulation doesn't work. The council must have more teeth or at least a big stick that would include suspension of licenses in ‘extreme' cases.

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