Group 5

Saswati Chatterjee Kamran Khan Burneet Kaur Zarina Yunus Priya Azad Shelley Saha

 Emerging

trends- vast expansion of the news

media
Internet

and news facility available on mobile phones has added to this expansion trends- shrinking space and time for socio-economic and political news of balanced coverage of political and social

Disturbing

Need

issues

 Movement

of the Sensex in the stock market makes economic news

Mainly

represents the investment pattern of the speculative capital

Reports

about the overall economic condition of the people is absent

 Occupies

disproportionate space and time because it has assumed great advertising and business value not for masses to participate but to watch or

Sports

read
No

efforts being made to analyse why India fails to perform in the Olympics. of commercial interest

Vehicle

 Do

you think women are projected as an object of desire in the Media? Sexiest Whole and in Parts. A set of erotic coloured photographs was published in the Hindustan Times (7 April 2004) Body parts are exposed to promote the sale of newspapers and magazines.

Worlds

Female

Art

Scientific Exploration

OR

Actors

Models

Sports Stars

 In

a country like India where millions of people do not have enough to eat, media glorification of such lifestyles is obnoxious attempt to sensationalize events

Deliberate Socially

insensitive

 Existential

conditions under which journalists have

to work
Appointment Criteria

on a contract basis

for evaluation - ability to serve the economic interests of the owners to their professional performance

Deterrent

 Honest Need

journalistic work demands a fearless spirit

for better survival conditions

Financial
Need

crisis faced by small publication houses

for government agencies to change their negative attitude

 Transforming

into a profession; motive-profit

generation
Everything

is saleable; everything for the market, for the profit in relation to ideology, values and social

Neutrality

concern
Not

like other products to be sold for any price

 Has

a profound impact on society of media by the corporate world

Misuse

powerful and influential means of social movements

 Communal

influence on media acquired after the Babri mosque demolition on vernacular press

Influence

Communalization

Communal

reporting, created differences among various communities

 Indian

Muslims , Christians portrayed as proPakistan and pro- west respectively Hindus considered true patriots

Only

Media

failed to highlight the barbarous attacks on the minorities of the Godhra riots of Supreme court

Intervention

 Collapse

of Soviet Union, reshaped the powerful world of America and other developed nations war - a clash between Christian and Islamic civilization Indian media adopted the Anglo-American perspective, enslaved by their mindset colonization requires media that works in tandem with government

Iraq

Neo-