He wrote: “Media self-regulation is a joint endeavour by media professionals to set up voluntary editorial guidelines and abide by them in a learning process open to the public. Measuring biasIn this context, it is evident that there is no universally accepted yardstick to measure ‘bias in media’ coverage. There seems to be no common ground to address this vexatious question of bias in our polarised reality. He wondered how The Hindu’s editorial on judicial contempt was different from these sections of the media which the newspaper criticised. I can safely say that the polarised environment is not restricted to the U.S., but has a debilitating and corrosive presence in India too.

Source: The Hindu September 20, 2020 18:45 UTC