Topic: Role of press in 21 Century.
Name :- Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai.
Roll no:- 12
Sem-4
Paper no:-15(Mass communication and Media
Studies.)
 Email Id :-ak.gohel4433@gmail.com
Submitted by: Dept of English,
M.K.Bhavnagar University
Year:- 2015-17.

What is Press / Media?
•Press / Media is the link between the
people of a country to propagate the
information from one end of the country
to the other either by electronic means
or by the means of print, i.e. is either by
Radio, Television, and Internet or by
News Papers.

 Around 13B.C. in Rome there grew a practice of putting up two
handwritten bulletins in the main public square. These bulletins
were known as Acta Diurnaa‛. It is believed that this was the first
newspaper.
The first newspaper in France was published in 1631-La
Gazette.
 The first newspaper in Portugal a Gazeta da Restauracao
was published in 1641.
 The first Spanish newspaper, Gaceta de Madrial was
published in 1661.
 The first newspaper in India was published by James
Hicky in January 1780. It was called the Bengal Gazette and it
was “weekly political and commercial paper
Begging of Press

Role of Press
The Press has helped to make our society a
democracy by placing emphasis on issues that at
one point in time would have been considered
strictly private such as childbirth, homosexuality,
child care, domestic violence, and sexual
harassment.

What can Press changes?
1) Our knowledge.
2)Our behaviour.
3)Our attitude.
4)Our emotions.
5)Our political views.

Role of Press in Democracy
Social Reformer
Sharing Information
Generate Debate:
Act as people’s mouth
piece:

Act as people‛s mouth piece
•The Press gives opportunity to people to
express their opinions. Through press we
express our views to public.
• It raises our problems through various devices
of Press. Your voice reaches to the mass
through Press so one can say that it‛s people‛s
mouth piece.

Generating Debate
•We watch and listen a lot on various issues in
media.Political social, religious, pollution,
communal,environmental, defence related
issues sports related issues, issues related to the
basic requirements of thepeople.

Sharing Information
Press is linked through news agencies all over
the world. This agencies share all the
information among them. This way important
news reaches us within no time. While sharing
information Press has to obey the norms of
particular country. For healthy environment in
the world sharing information is necessary.

Social Reformer
•In the world of today, media as necessary as
food and clothing. The newspapers can play a
very vital role in the reconstruction and
regeneration of a nation by highlighting and
pin-pointing the social, economic and moral
evils in the society. Can be helpful in
eradicating these evils from the society.

“A free press can of
course be good or bad,
most certainly, without
freedom it will never be
anything but bad…
Freedom is nothing else
but a chance to be
better, whereas
enslavement is a
certainty of the worse”
Freedom of Press:

Press / media should be
Positive
Creative
Informative
Motivating
Entertaining