Media persons should beg for public apology?

Media persons should beg for public apology?

An open forum discussion held at the Kerala Sahitya Academy, Thrissur in connection with the seminar on Media Language has concluded that the Media Persons have moral responsibility to beg for Public Apology for the Media errors they committed. I strongly protested this concluded remarks of the forum. In my opinion Media persons need not beg for Public Apology for the errors other than factual crept into the reporting. At the same Media Persons should take maximum vigilance in dealing with reporting to avoid such errors. Media persons no time to get the data processed and error-free for want of speedier news delivery especially in the onslaught of visual media. It will not be a good practice of ethics to beg for public apology as and when errors crept into the reports. There are chances of sinister influences upon his psyche to hunt for erroneous data for sensationalism and also for reporting easiness.

 C.T. WILLIAM