By not highlighting developmental issues and concentrating on lighter matters, the media is "insulting" the sensibilities of people, speakers felt at a media workshop organised by OneWorld South Asia and Panos International at the M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai.
The main focus of the workshop was to bring together key national level communications policy makers and other influential actors with senior editors and journalists, to dialogue and build the medias interest, increase their stake in building an inclusive information society.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls for a synergy between Right to Information and Right to Communication.The workshop tried to look at the ways
through which information and communication tools(ICT's) can be used by experts in partnership with the mass media to help build an informative society.
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