Supreme Court has stood up for the media amid accusations of ‘fake news’ and ‘bias’ | The Indian Express

Supreme Court has stood up for the media amid accusations of ‘fake news’ and ‘bias’ | The Indian Express

Written by Alok Prasanna Kumar |Updated: April 17, 2019 7:50:04 am

The writer is a senior resident fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, and is based in Bengaluru.v

Supreme Court has stood up for the media amid accusations of ‘fake news’ and ‘bias’

Supreme Court’s verdict on Rafale goes beyond the case: It has said very clearly that it will stand for the right of independent media to bring facts to public light and has firmly put itself in the camp of transparency vis-a-vis the government.

The main question — whether there is a need to investigate the Rafale acquisition by the Union government — remains undecided. (AP Photo)

One of the many failings of legal education in India has been the acontextual manner in which judgments of constitutional courts are presented without proper historical and political context. Only those who discover the writings of historians and political science experts end up appreciating the importance of placing judgments in context. Only recently has legal pedagogy accepted the importance of such contextual readings.