Understanding Media - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: Now a day media is far from independent. Explain.
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In a democracy, media plays an important role in providing :--
News and in discussing events taking place in the country and in the world. Media provides information to the citizens and enables them to take action.
An independent media means that no one should control and influence its coverage of news. Media is far from independent, this is because of control of government over them. Government prevents some news items, scenes from a movie, or lyrics of songs from being shared with larger public, this is called as censorship.
Censorship means the process by which media is controlled by the government, when any news, dialogues, lyrics or scene is prevented from being shared with the larger public.
