Today in this article we discussed about the power of press in democracy. We will discuss short way.
Power of press in democracy or newspapers
" I am not afraid of 100 of battalion of an army but I am afraid of a single newspaper"
Newspaper has a powerful influence in the modern world. Today newspapers published in a number of language like Hindi , English ,Urdu etc.the most important function of a newspaper is to bring us the news of the world.They inform us about our country and every important happening of the world. Without them we would be like a frog in a well.
In a democratic country like India press or newspapers are an important means of forming public opinion. they comment on current events and criticize or appreciate the policy of the government.it is through them that the public comes to know about the problems of the country and the possible way for solving them. The educate the public mind and enable them to have their own opinion on matters of public importance. In a democracy they can play a vital role to keep down fissiparrous tendency and create national integration.
"Newspapers are like watch dogs on government .
Besides this newspapers are also important India of communication between the government and the people. Government publishes its plans, programs policies and its achievements in newspaper for public reaction and opinion.the people also use the newspaper to praise the government policies or Express dissatisfaction over them. The newspapers voice the grievance of the people. They server as a check on the government. They are gentle for the proper functioning of democracy.
Newspaper also server as importance means of advertisement. They help in trade and commerce by advertising dear product or other benefiting schemes for public.The government and companies use newspaper to let the people know about their vacancy for different posts. The newspaper also help a lot of marriageable youth through their matrimonials columns to find out desirable partners.in additions to all these the newspaper industry also has vast scope of employing people in different capacities. In short, they play a very important role in our society.
But the newspaper have some drawbacks too. They serve as means of propaganda for the various political parties often second and ambiguous views and comments are expressed through them. The newspaper create communal dis harmony by washing vested opinion of religious leaders with wasted interest. Often they create educations in public mind by publishing cheap and misleading advertisements.
but this disadvantage are nothing in comparison to their many faults advantage there are really a great use for the people. So this should be incouraged by the government also. The government recent proposal to introduce prasar bharati Bean is very much welcome. For a democracy, the newspaper undoubtedly has beetle role to play.
"The press is the people's University"
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