TRP

A chargesheet before the...

After the Mumbai Police last month claimed that they had unearthed a TRP scam, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting yesterday decided to set up a four-member committee to study the different aspects of the Television Rating Points (TRP) system.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Bombay High Court today asked the Mumbai Police to issue summons to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami if the police intend to add his name to the FIR as an accused.

Even as Republic TV Chief Editor Aarnab Goswami’s plea against the privilege motion of the Maharashtra Assembly was adjourned today at the Supreme Court, the company’s CEO, Vikash Khanchandani, was grilled by the Mumbai Police’s crime branch yesterday for nine hours.

The Mumbai Police announced that it busted a racket fraudulently involved in manipulating TRP. Republic TV, which is aligned against the Shiv Sena-government in Maharashtra, has been named as one of the perpetrators of such “malpractices” for which the police intends to take action.

The professionalism and ethics of the media are constantly brought into question when it takes sides in a case and pronounces the accused guilty even before the court begins trial