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BY D N Singh
When a panel is good, better is the quality of the debate when objectivity is allowed to get incorporated into the discourses.
That is where comes the role of a neutral voice and the scribes are viewed to be the ones to fit in.
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When it is the question of dignity of labour, as regards investment of intellect is concerned, the news channels in Odisha, to be specific, have a reason to update themselves.
Mainly when it is about the debates on several issues, where besides the regular lot of guests from the political parties, journalists and others do play a key-roll as panelists.
When a panel is good, better is the quality of the debate only when objectivity is allowed to get incorporated into the discourses.
That is where comes the role of a neutral voice and the scribes are viewed to be the ones to fit in.
Anyway, the recent jitters on whether the journalists, as panelists, reflect objectivity is something that cannot be wished away and that we may discuss in the following parts of the article.
Why Charity!
In Odisha en number of scribes and experts on several topics can be seen taking part in debates and are never paid any honorarium at all.
They obviously toil hard preparing themselves with a homework and then wading through the verbal violence with a wealth of evidence often.
The entire exercise of about an hour or 30 minutes is always free of cost.
Neither the channels offer any remuneration nor the panelists demand.
Does modesty forbids a deal or there is something more lucrative than that.