If tomorrow I became a journalist, the moment I follow the media ethics I will be shown the door.

If tomorrow I became a journalist, the moment I follow the media ethics I will be shown the door. This is what a professor has said while teaching his students. The era of BJP government is emerging as fear to press freedom of India. The reporters without borders survey about press freedom index has shown the best example of decreasing freedom of press, which India got 142th rank out of 180 countries. The government was repeating colonial history of Britishers to suppress press freedom in Jammu & Kashmir. In the year 1878 the British government imposed “The Vernacular press Act”. This empowered the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.??It repeated on June 2,2020 but this time by BJP government, this policy authorizes government officers to decide on journalists and media Organizations. It also emphasis on verifying the antecedents of newspaper publishers, editors and key staff members before emplaning newspapers and online portals for advertisement. the aim of policy??is to kill the local media and build only the government narrative. “this policy will simply convert journalism into public relations, which is not just sad but dangerous for democracy.’ Nazim nazir, who is associate editor of the largest circulated Urdu newspaper Tameel-I-irshad said gone are the days when newspaper carrying stories fearlessly. But now the media policy created gatekeepers a government official, leading to government regulated press. The same incident also happened in the past when the vernacular press act was passed the amrita bazar patrika’”s??editor Sisir kumar ghose summoned him and offer to contribute to his paper regularly??if he gave final editorial approval. The magistrate or commissioner of police had the authority to call upon??any printer or publisher of a newspapers to enter into a bond. Under this act many of newspapers were fined of editors were jailed same as Masrat Zahra the photo journalist who was charged by UAPA but she won the Pulitzer prize award, That’s??how the government suppressing the media in the name of controlling of fake news.