Media must sustain belief, be the voice of the individuals: Horatti

Basavaraj Horatti, MLC and former Minister, has stated that individuals nonetheless had religion and trusted the media greater than governments and the media had the duty to sustain this by turning into voice of the individuals.

He was addressing a gathering of journalists and their households after presenting varied awards at the award presentation programme organised by Dharwad District Union of Working Journalists (DDUWJ) in Hubballi on Friday. Mr. Horatti stated that when the governments and elected representatives failed to reply to their grievances and aspirations, individuals approached the media in search of justice mediapersons ought to work in the direction of retaining that belief.

Referring to the ‘black sheep’ in the media, he stated that like different fields, there have been unhealthy components in media too and since of them, journalism had earned a nasty identify. Those in the area ought to take steps to take away these unhealthy components and rectify the errors, he stated.

Mr. Horatti stated these in the authorities must also reply to the points regarding the welfare of the journalists. He assured that he would take up the points pertaining to journalists at the authorities stage.

Shivanand Tagadur, president, Karnataka Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), emphasised on the want for eliminating components concerned in ‘blackmail tactics’. He stated the predominant goal of journalism was to turn out to be the voice of the unvoiced and that journalists ought to perceive this and work accordingly. On KUWJ actions, he stated that that the union had taken steps to increase a serving to hand to journalists in misery, particularly those that had misplaced employment on account of COVID-19. Steps to get help to the relations of journalists who died in accidents and on account of well being points had been being taken by KUWJ, he stated.

MLA Shankar Patil Munenakoppa and MLC Srinivas Mane lauded the contribution of journalists in the direction of nation-building and in elevating socially related points that wanted authorities consideration and consequently discovering answer to the issues.

Journalists awarded

Earlier the dignitaries honoured journalist Hanumath Hugar and his spouse with a lifetime achievement award. The annual awards for journalists in varied classes got to Jayashri Walwekar, Prabhakar Nayak, K. Pramod, Nagaraj Hegde Matigar, Manjunath Hugar, Prakash Shet, Krishini Shirur, Harsha Kulkarni, Vinayak Pujari, Naveen Paradeshi and Narayanagouda.

On the event, senior journalists Amaregouda Gonawar, Basavaraj Havaldar and Vidya Kodlekere, who lately acquired varied awards, had been felicitated. Meritorious youngsters of working journalists who scored excessive marks in varied examinations had been honoured with money prizes on the event.