Defending the mechanism of self regulation for the Media, Information and Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni today said that this slower but surer
system only needed more time to establish itself. Soni was speaking at an event hosted by ASSOCHAM where Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju had in his speech earlier heavily criticised the news media for not
highlighting the real issues facing the country.

"Rules and regulations for media, cable, television, the Censor Board which the Parliament in its wisdom has put in its place should be at least given an initial chance of self regulation", Soni said responding to Katju. 

Making a case for self regulation, Soni said that when a person is given the responsibility of deciding whether he has done the right thing by showing one hour of superstition or other illogical things, somewhere down the line his conscious is going to prick.