Speech on role of media in democracy
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Answer: By the end of the 1990s, the number of news channels through satellite, was simply mind-boggling. News on television was suddenly very big business. A plethora of TV serials and movies from all over the world also stormed into our lives. But it gets dangerous when news channels try to become entertainment channels and newspapers desperate to survive in a ‘dog eat dog world’ stoop to abysmally poor levels of vulgarity. Quality has always been inversely proportional to quantity. The media is no exception.
In today’s world, finding a decent news channel which portrays serious news can be challenging. Even newspapers respected all over the nation seem to be more obsessed with adding the latest gossip to their Page 3 than dealing with issues which concern the common man. Thus, an honest engineer like Satyendra Dubey who was most brutally murdered by the mafia in Bihar appears in and vanishes from the newspaper before we blink an eyelid but we are regularly reminded of Paris Hilton’s pets!
Prestigious news channels devote hours of prime time to the post mortem of a reality show. There are some Cassandras as well who are on a mission to find out if it is full stop for the human civilisation in the year 2012. A spicy gossip is what the media wants to make out of every serious news item.
Firstly let us understand what is democracy
A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
In simple democracy people's government.
Democracy is better than other form of government because.
∆ It protects the interests of citizens.
∆ It promotes equality.
∆ It generally takes a stable decision.
Though India became a free nation on August 15, 1947, it declared itself a Sovereign, Democratic and Republic state with the adoption of the Constitution on January 26, 1950. The Constitution gave the citizens of India the power to choose their own government and paved the way for democracy.
India has a federal form of government, and hence each state also has its own government. The executive of each state is the Governor whose role is ceremonial. The real power resides with the Chief Minister and the state council of ministers.
Other examples of democratic nations are
- Finland
- Iceland