Media Contours changed in the last two decades - Shri Arun Jaitley Shri Jaitley delivers the 1st Justice J. S. Verma Memorial lecture on the 'Freedom & Responsibility of Media'

The Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley has said that in the last two decades, the conventional contours of the issues pertaining to Freedom and Responsibility of Media had changed due to changes in the nature and content of media and the definition of news. News in the electronic media today was being defined by what the camera could capture. In the current paradigm, technology had become a driving force for these changes. The impact of technology was profound as information dissemination was taking place 24x7 across different technological tools and media platforms including the digital space. Shri Jaitley stated this while delivering the delivering the first Justice J. S. Verma Memorial lecture on the 'Freedom & Responsibility of Media' organized by the News Broadcasters Association here today.