{"id":5596,"date":"2007-05-24T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2007-05-24T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:00:00","slug":"a-trial-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/a-trial-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA trial balloon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the subject of Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi<\/a>, the information and broadcasting minister, playing the moral police, an unnamed news channel head is quoted as saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n I don’t see why we are surprised a Congress government is playing moral police. All parties want to control a powerful medium like television. No political party can afford to ban a news channel. But going after soft targets like AXN and FTV is like floating a trial balloon. It sends a shiver down the spines of all broadcasters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Well, hardly anyone protested. So will there be more balloons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the subject of Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi<\/a>, the information and broadcasting minister, playing the moral police, an unnamed news channel head is quoted as saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n I don’t see why we are surprised a Congress government is playing moral police. All parties want to control a powerful medium like television. No political party can afford to ban a news channel. But going after soft targets like AXN and FTV is like floating a trial balloon. It sends a shiver down the spines of all broadcasters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Well, hardly anyone protested. So will there be more balloons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,14,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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