speech writing on topic India democracy and media responsibilty
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Democracy gives you freedom—’the right to free speech’. The media through television channels, the Internet, and newspapers assume the role of the moral guardian in society. More than often, we depend on the media to seek the truth. But truth is subjective. What is truth to you might not be the truth to me. Therefore, the media is expected to carefully analyse a situation from all possible angles rather than merely pass a fixed moral judgment.
Democracy gives you freedom—’the right to free speech’. The media through television channels, the Internet, and newspapers assume the role of the moral guardian in society. More than often, we depend on the media to seek the truth. But truth is subjective. What is truth to you might not be the truth to me. Therefore, the media is expected to carefully analyse a situation from all possible angles rather than merely pass a fixed moral judgment.Till the late 1980s, the media in India was largely limited to Doordarshan and All India Radio, both strictly monitored and censored by the government. Thus when Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984, the average Indian had no idea whether she was alive or dead even hours after the tragic event.
Democracy gives you freedom—’the right to free speech’. The media through television channels, the Internet, and newspapers assume the role of the moral guardian in society. More than often, we depend on the media to seek the truth. But truth is subjective. What is truth to you might not be the truth to me. Therefore, the media is expected to carefully analyse a situation from all possible angles rather than merely pass a fixed moral judgment.Till the late 1980s, the media in India was largely limited to Doordarshan and All India Radio, both strictly monitored and censored by the government. Thus when Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984, the average Indian had no idea whether she was alive or dead even hours after the tragic event.But the BBC had already let the world know that the Prime Minister of India had been shot dead. Channels like Star Plus, Star Sports, BBC and CNN stormed into the Indian television network in the early 1990s. The BBC, by its detailed coverage of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, made it clear that the media in India had to adapt to changes in portraying the truth.