Mysuru: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the District Administration to set up a Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) to check the menace of paid news during the build-up to Assembly elections.
The EC identified paid news masquerading as news as a major problem during elections. It issued guidelines to the MCMC to not only monitor all the political advertisements to be aired on television channels and cable networks during this period, but also keep a tab on suspected cases of paid news.
