Katju is again angry with the Press - Coverage for Dev Anand
PRESS Council of India Chairman and former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Markendeya Katju did not like the coverage given by the Indian Press to the news of Dev Anand's death. "Putting the news of an actor's death on the front page when farmers were committing suicide and there were more pressing social and economic issues to be addressed only showed a "lack of sense of priority", according to the Hon'ble former judge. Every media worth its name carried news of Dev Anand's death.
Perhaps, once a judge; always a judge. Newspapers and editors however incompetent they are, certainly have a reasonable judgement on what constitutes news and do they need a judgement from a former judge? Even while sitting in the highest court, the learned Katju used to lecture to senior lawyers on how to argue!