The Rourkela Press Club held a talk on ‘Involvement of media in corruption vis-à-vis credibility of media’ on the occasion of its 35th annual day here on Wednesday.
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Vice-Chancellor Prof Shyam Sundar Pattanaik gracing the occasion said an individual cannot change the society but can change himself. If everybody starts to think good and do well, the society would automatically be changed, he opined.
Senior journalist Arun Kumar Panda said the capital of a journalist is honesty, boldness and fearlessness. A journalist should not go beyond ethics. He opined that 90 per cent media corruptions occur in the electronic media.
While club president Muralidhar Parija presided over the function, secretary Mihir Ray read out secretarial note and senior scribe
AP Biswal delivered welcome address.