Al Jazeera Pays Price for Showing Wrong Map of India

[gslv mk3]

Al Jazeer is showing the correct map of india. Quit crying.

Lol @ this propaganda bot

 

[Koovie]

Still, Indians are more concerned about Youtube being Banned in Pakistan and how India guarantees freedom of expression (or jokes as it turns out)

BS. They have repeatedly been warned about this issue. What else is the GOI supposed to do?

Comparing this with the YT ban is ridiculous

 

[Donatello]

BS. They have repeatedly been warned about this issue. What else is the GOI supposed to do?

Comparing this with the YT ban is ridiculous

The point of that post was, that Indians are more concerned about what happens in Pakistan than in their own homeland.

 

[Ammyy]

Al Jazeer is showing the correct map of india. Quit crying.

What if CNN show Tibet as independent country?? is that also correct??

 

[desimorty]

The truth is Pakistani flag waves in Indian Occupied Kashmir every now and then.

by a minority 5% which I could also find doing in Baluchistan. Does that make it right? Hell India could get Tibetans to wave Indian flags in Tibet but that wouldn't end too well for Tibetans would it?
Majority of Kashmir wants independence. The number of Kashmir that want to join Pakistan is down from 30% to 5% and this is due to the recent events in Pakistan and note that these numbers are from my *** so their is an error margin but still point is valid because the Kashmir youth tend to think emotionally than rationally.
If Kashmir becomes independent, they wouldn't be able to pay their own bills! same if they join Pakistan. Each financial year Kashmir leaders come to Delhi with a begging bowl, and unlike Nepal other Indian states have to Pay for Kashmir.

Its hard for Pakistanis to belive but what if I told you that if Pakistan gets Kashmir, there will be internal civil war between the Whabi sect and the nots? Because this is happening right now under Indian control. Kashmir right now is better under Indian control. More and more Kashmir is are recognizing this fact. Only India can pay for government expense.

 

[Faiez]

There is. The govt has to prove "malicious intent" on the part of the network, which should be easy if they ignored prior warnings. The only absolute defence against the charge is truth - and truth is not on AJ's side in this case.

I was talking about the US. There's no such law in the US.

 

[janon]

I was talking about the US. There's no such law in the US.

I was talking about the US as well. Newspapers can and have been sued for libel, defamation etc - the crucial question being whether they lied with malicious intent or not. Usually malicious intent cannot be proved, so they get away with lying. But in this case that's provable. Another factor in US laws regarding press freedom is "prior restraint". In this case, the govt had warned them before, and therefore they violated the govt's prior restraint order as well.

Anyway US laws are irrelevant; in India the media has to follow certain codes. Agreeing to show a proper map after being notified about it by the govt is one such thing. That's really not an egregious assault on freedom of expression.

BTW, as I explained above, "freedom of expression" applies to individuals, not the media. For the media, the applicable concept is "freedom of the press", or more generally, media freedom. So a certain think tank confusing this case with lack of freedom of expression, goes to show that people should not blabber anything that comes to their mind, if they don't know what they are talking about.

News is not an "expression" of ideas. People can express themselves. News organizations are supposed to "report". That is why a commentator or columnist can get away with this, but not a news channel - especially after they have been notified prior.

I'm sure you will agree that this is not the most serious curb on freedom of speech you can think of.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

i doubt anyone actually watched this channel.They have even showed AP as part of China.

it still in the air. Good channel though. But bit muslim centric as expected.

 

[SamantK]

I was talking about the US as well. Newspapers can and have been sued for libel, defamation etc - the crucial question being whether they lied with malicious intent or not. Usually malicious intent cannot be proved, so they get away with lying. But in this case that's provable. Another factor in US laws regarding press freedom is "prior restraint". In this case, the govt had warned them before, and therefore they violated the govt's prior restraint order as well.

Anyway US laws are irrelevant; in India the media has to follow certain codes. Agreeing to show a proper map after being notified about it by the govt is one such thing. That's really not an egregious assault on freedom of expression.

BTW, as I explained above, "freedom of expression" applies to individuals, not the media. For the media, the applicable concept is "freedom of the press", or more generally, media freedom. So a certain think tank confusing this case with lack of freedom of expression, goes to show that people should not blabber anything that comes to their mind, if they don't know what they are talking about.

News is not an "expression" of ideas. People can express themselves. News organizations are supposed to "report". That is why a commentator or columnist can get away with this, but not a news channel - especially after they have been notified prior.

I'm sure you will agree that this is not the most serious curb on freedom of speech you can think of.

That think tank is a person who's logic tanks more often than not.

 

[Ind4Ever]

Right Move . Next time it must be 5 months Ban

 

[OrionHunter]

i doubt anyone actually watched this channel.They have even showed AP as part of China.

Next they'll probably show Mumbai as part of Madagascar! What else can you expect from the Qataris?

 

[JaiShriAllahNath]

Hardly, they were given multiple warnings and it is clear this is not simply a matter of accidental omission but a political statement this channel is trying to make- why should the GoI put up with that? If you want to operate inside a country you have to abide by their rules.
Do you think the USA would do nothing if it showed parts of its territory as part of Mexico?
Good for the GoI, in the past they have tried to take the "high ground" as they were constantly spat in the face, but these sort of clowns need to be made aware, in a language they understand, that this is unacceptable.

Modi government is very weak and docile, compared to any other nation with self-respect.

5 days ban is too less, it shows typical Gujarati G@y Gandhian weakness. People on this forum would react "differently" if Govt. had banned al-jajeera for 5 months(and give that slot/contract to some Hindu investor from middle-east or force other middle-east channel to divest stake to hindu owners. This is how USA/Russia/China works). Modi lacks guts.

Hillary Clinton has bigger balls than uneducated chaddi fools like Modi. He is a good street-shouter, but very poor at handling educated due-dilligence & refined gut-knuckling diplomacy.

Heck, even Manmohan Singh handled Nuclear deal far better(due to his Oxford experience of White-men & women), than Modi ever can in his whole life.