International Journal of Law

Authors
Ghalib Nashter

Abstract
Democracy cannot be successful without free press. Free press is very essential, as it is the voice of the people. But media shall not fall as a victim to some monetary or any other temptations, and shall keep on honestly serve the people. The Chairman of Drafting committee Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar strongly argued that: “The press is merely another way of stating an individual or a citizen. The press has no special rights which are not to be given or which are not to be given or which are not to be exercised by the citizen in his individual capacity. The editor of press or the manager is all citizens and therefore when they choose to write in news paper they are merely exercising their right of freedom of speech and expression and in my judgment therefore no special mention is necessary of the freedom of press at all”. Media in contemporary era is not seem to be a platform for raising the people’s concern but appreciate the government and its policies which are directly effecting the basis of democracy. Most of the channels are act as an agent of the government which is danger for any democratic government. Media trial is also one of the major concerns which are weakening the faith of people from judiciary. Instead of the many reasonable restrictions imposed by Constitution and other laws, media is not checked by any agencies of government effectively. Now it is believe that those who have media in pocket rule the country. And this is against the constitutionalism and ethics of media profession. Main purpose of this paper is to discuss the main concerns of expression by media and check and balance on it by law. The author has tried to point out the reasons for loosing popular faith on media by people. Further the author has tried to focus how the media can play important role in formation of healthy democratic government by focusing on major issues of the people in the spirit of constitution.