Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he would not like to tell mass media what their policy should be but he wants them to avoid putting senseless news stories at the top.
"Often, very important news stories relating to our life disappear and things that are of an extremely subjective, or even senseless, nature, become the key ones and top news wires becoming headlines in different media," Medvedev said Saturday.
The president said this resulted in people having a distorted picture of what was going on around them.
"It is hard for me to teach media anything. First of all, because this should not be done by the head of state, otherwise they could say he is trying to dictate something," he said.
"Second, there are the rules of the genre. But these rules should be just, at least to a small degree, and should separate the most important events from what will disappear from the news in a day," Medvedev said.
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First Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011, 12:18