The attendees at the all-India seminar, organised under the banner of the Indian Journalists` Union in New Delhi, pitched for setting up a media commission, a long-standing demand, saying that though the Press Council of India is "strong constitutionally," it doesn`t have the authority of a commission.

"The Indian Journalists` Union organised a national-level seminar to deliberate on the challenges that are confronting the media at all levels on a daily basis and how to bring them within the ambit of the law to protect truth-seeking journalists and censure fake and paid news peddlers," seminar coordinator and former IJU president S N Sinha said in a statement on Sunday.