KADAPA: Media should enlighten people to be vigilant against irregularities, guide society and strengthen democracy, Rajya Sabha member C. Ramachandraiah said on Sunday.

Addressing a seminar on `Media expansion - credibility' at Kadapa Press Club, the MP asserted that the executive and legislature had become `polluted'. If degeneration sets in the judiciary and the fourth estate, democratic society would be ruined, he observed.

Sensationalism

The media was changing as per the people's aspirations but sensationalism grabbed the most attention, the MP said. None had the right to regulate media, including the executive, judiciary and legislature, Indian Journalists Union secretary-general K. Srinivas Reddy said. Mr. Reddy opposed foreign direct investment in media. Growing technology, massive investment and rise in costs was giving rise to a commercial outlook in the media, APCC official spokesman N. Thulasi Reddy said. Kadapa Mayor P. Ravindranath Reddy exhorted media to guide people and further development with an apolitical approach.

Watchdog

Watch by the media was inculcating discipline and fear of action among Government employees and curbing corruption and irregularities to some extent, Kadapa Collector M.T. Krishna Babu said. Kadapa Superintendent of Police Y. Nagi Reddy said sensationalism of events vitiated law and order on certain occasions. He urged the media to avert distortion of facts and confine views to editorials.

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