Chennai: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said that a newspaper should be a "voice of the voiceless, hope of the hopeless" and regretted that common man was often "invisible" in the pages of "our glossy newspapers and magazine".

"There is a tendency to be hastily judgmental, with a weakness for sensational headlines and editorialising in news columns and sometimes objective reportage of facts are compromised in the process," he said, inaugurating the 125th anniversary celebrations of national English daily, 'The Hindu', at a function in Chennai on September 13 evening.

"We have full faith in the Indian media. It can no doubt take care of its responsibilities and professional ethics. The media should draw its own 'Lakshman rekha'," he said.

PTI