Question

write an essay on importance of newspaper in India more than 2oo words​

Answer 1

ELLO MATE,

Importance of Newspaper:

We can’t overlook the importance of newspaper in our daily routines. The role of print and electronic media is dominating one, in the modern world. In this age of information newspaper is the most powerful tool to express ideas and information. It is a part and parcel of modern life. It is playing its vital role by providing information and creating awareness among the people.

Importance of Newspaper

Like all the other things, newspaper has abuses along with its uses. Let us have a bird’s eye view of the various aspects of it.

Answer 2

In India newspapers have a vital role to play and an important duty to perform, both as ‘vox populi’ (voice of the people) and as builder of public opinion. In this sense, it is the ‘people’s university’—book, pulpit, platform, forum, theatre and counselor, all in one. There is no interest—literary, social, political, religious, commercial, economic, scientific, technological, agricultural, mechanical, cultural, histrionic and so on and so forth—which is not covered “by the news­paper. There, a vast majority of the people in this country are still illiterate or at least unenlightened, even among the literate persons, about two-thirds do not read newspaper regularly. The Indian masses lack intellectual capacity and comprehension required in reading a newspaper. Approximately 17 percent of people read newspapers and out these dot even half of the people read editorials, comments or serious initial articles. The rest content themselves by reading the headlines or the topical news.The newspapers in India perform their pole as guardians of the public interest, watch-dogs and a source of all kinds of informa­tion. They are not State-controlled, as in U.S.S.R. and Pakistan, they enjoy freedom of expression. Of course, they must function within the bounds of law. They must not infringe the law regarding libel and deformation, otherwise they would be liable to penal action. Even the restricted freedom of the Indian newspapers it the envy of the journalists in other countries of Asia where there has been a prolonged spell of military dictatorship, autocratic rule or emergency.