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The advisory signed by assistant director Prateek Jain mentioned that over the last few months, several television channels including the mainstream channels have reported incidents of accidents, deaths, and violence including violence against women, children and elderly in manners which grossly compromised on “good taste and decency.”
The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting today issued an advisory to all television channels against reporting incidents of accident, death and violence in a manner that grossly compromised on “good taste and decency”.
It cited ‘distasteful, sensational, distressful’ news broadcasts from last year as violating the Programme Code.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting cited the coverage of cricketer's car crash, airing of distressing images of dead bodies, such reporting offended 'good taste and decency'
The government on Monday termed the television news coverage of cricketer Rishabh Pant's road accident and some other crime stories "distasteful" and "heart-wrenching".