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RE:Media idiots
by Jeffrey Mittal on Sep 14, 2007 08:21 PM
Srinivas and others,
This may interest you
By Niranjan Shah â%u201A¬ â%u20AC%u2122¶
I have come across some interesting information about the ownership of media
in Bhaarat. What is media? Media is plural of medium. Mass media is the term
used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived
and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as
the whole population of a nation state). The word media was coined in the
1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks and of mass-circulation
newspapers and magazines. This includes messages that are distributed
through the technologies, principally text in books, study guides and
computer networks; sound in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in
video-tapes and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference.
The means by which information is distributed such as print, broadcast,
CD-ROM, World Wide Web, and so forth is also Media.
Mass media in Bhaarat is that part of the Indian media which aims to reach a
wide audience. Besides the news media, which includes print, radio and
television, the Internet is playing an increasing role, along with the
growth of the Indian blogging community. Compared with many other developing
countries, the Indian press is relatively unfettered, except for obstacles
in the way of setting up media companies which were part of the pre-1990
license Raj.
In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5,364 daily newsp
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