Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given below:
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By mass communications media we mean firstly the press, newspapers, magazines, cheap books,
and secondly radio and television. The --------- is also part of the mass media but is, in many countries, rapid losing its popularity in the face of overwhelming competition from television. The media have four basic ---------: firstly, they supply us with news, keeping us informed about what is happening in our world; secondly they interpret the news for us by way of ------
-------- and editorial; thirdly they spread culture and education, either formally or by spreading
social norms; fourthly, they provide ---------------.
These functions entail considerable responsibilities, i.e. of what is important and what people should know, necessarily implies a certain bias which be reinforced by the ----------------
of the news. Similarly, the------- of education and cultural norms may affect and form the
attitudes and sensibilities of a nation. Even the type of information provided may affect our ways of ----------
and behaving. Because of these responsibilities the -------
are often government owned or government controlled, sometimes both. Where this is not so the mass media are generally owned and run as ----------- profit-making
[Commentary, cinema, functions, spreading, entertainment, interpretation, thinking, enterprises,
mass media, capitalist]
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The blanks have been filled with appropriate words as follows:
By mass communications media we mean firstly the press, newspapers, magazines, cheap books,and secondly radio and television.
The cinema is also part of the mass media but is, in many countries, rapidly losing its popularity in the face of overwhelming competition from television.
The media have four basic functions: firstly, they supply us with news, keeping us informed about what is happening in our world; secondly they interpret the news for us by way of mass media and editorial; thirdly they spread culture and education, either formally or by spreading social norms; fourthly, they provide entertainment.
These functions entail considerable responsibilities, i.e. of what is important and what people should know, necessarily implies a certain bias which be reinforced by the commentary of the news.
Similarly, the spreading of education and cultural norms may affect and form the attitudes and sensibilities of a nation. Even the type of information provided may affect our ways of thinking and behaving.
Because of these responsibilities the enterprises are often government owned or government controlled, sometimes both. Where this is not so the mass media are generally owned and run as capitalist profit-making.
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