ESSAY ON THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA : IN THIS ARTICLE, WE ARE PROVIDING THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA ESSAY IN ENGLISH LANGUAG...
ESSAY ON THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA : IN THIS ARTICLE, WE ARE PROVIDING THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA ESSAY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR STUDENTS OF CLASS 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 AND 12.
ESSAY ON THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA FOR CLASS 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 AND 12.
With the spread of education and
with the progressive reduction and removal of poverty, our newspapers ought to
have a bright future. Today the majority of Indian villages have very poor
means of communication. Railway stations, metalled roads and post offices are,
as yet, insufficient in number. Even weekly delivery of letters to the majority
of the villages is uncertain. This, added to illiteracy and poverty, keeps
about seventy per cent of our villagers deprived of the services of newspapers.
Newspapers have a variety of aims
and purposes. The most important of these is the dissemination of national,
international and local news. Today newspapers are within the reach of hardly
30 or 40 per cent people. When nearly all Indians from week to week
and from day to day will be reading about the happenings in the world and in
the country as well as in the neighbourhood, it will bring them together
mentally and emotionally. This will help the process of nation building. Care
and impartiality and a sense of selection are needed in editing and publishing
news, if this is to have educative value for the millions.
Newspapers are also views-papers'.
Highly educated and trained journalists can, through their editorial notes,
create and educate public opinion. When, with the spread of newspapers, people
read the views, the opinions, the facts and arguments given by the editors,
they will begin to think for themselves and to differ or agree with the views
expressed in the newspapers. Opinion-building is also an important function of
newspapers.
Newspapers should also have
thoughtful and thought-provoking articles by good writers. Short stories,
subjects connected with popular science, accounts of travel and adventure,
sports news and sports commentaries should also find room in a good newspaper.
In future the circulation of newspapers will increase many times.
Advertisements will also bring rapidly increasing income to the newspapers.
Pictures and cartoons add interesting features to newspapers. Today very few newspapers
can afford to make suitable payments to their writers and artists. But in
future when the business of journalism looks up and newspapers become really profitable
concerns, far better payments can be made to writers. The quality and the level
of newspaper writing will also improve with the rise of education and rise in
circulation.
We students feel the lack of
suitable weeklies and monthlies for young people. We can only hope that with
the progressive improvement in the living conditions of our people there will
be more and more juvenile magazines and periodicals, and of increasing quality.
Progress is indivisible. We cannot think of the future of Indian newspapers in
an isolated way. Only with uniform development in all aspects of nation- al
life can we expect appreciable development in the quality of Indian newspapers.
Their future is bound up with the future of other departments, features and
aspects of Indian life. To put the matter simply, half a million more
reading-clubs, reading rooms, and libraries spread all over the country and the
countryside will bring about a desirable revolution in our newspapers and
assure a bright future for them.
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