India and the media
Yesterday afternoon I was writing a journal for my mass communications class. The assignment was something like “choose a media-related story and study it.” Thanks for the specifics! Not.
Anyway, I Google-newsed “media” and stumbled upon this article, which discusses the findings of a poll of Indians and their feelings about media.
According to the article, “As many as 52 per cent of those polled in India said it was important to have freedom of the media, and an equal number said that people should have the right to read whatever is on the web.”
While 52% is more than half, it was exremely surprising to me that there were still 48% of polled people who didn’t think freedom of the media was important, and who didn’t think they should have the right to read everything on the Internet.
Furthermore, “56% said that people in India should have the right to read publications from other countries, including those that could be considered enemies.”
Quite honestly, why wouldn’t 100% of people want to know what their enemies are up to?
I thought this was an interesting article because it showed such a high contrast between India and the United States. Though it doesn’t really go along with any of the major news values, the story was concise and had a strong lead.
