Journalism in the Third World : A Case Study of India(<The Role of Modern Journalism>)

Saitoh Yoshifumi

doi:10.24460/shinbungaku.34.0_108

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第三世界のジャーナリズム : 体験からみた権力と新聞(<特集>ジャーナリズム論を探る)
第三世界のジャーナリズム--(体験からみた)権力と新聞
ダイサンセカイノジャーナリズムタイケンカラミタケンリョクトシ

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In the Third World, the development of the media is mainly in the hands of state-run broadcasting and television services, and any independent newspapers which watch the government's activities come after them. In the 1970s, when the Indian government began to consolidate its authoritative structure based on political and economic factors, its control on the press was reinforced. Consequently newspapers fell into a difficult time. On the other hand, the Third World's challenge to develop a free and balanced flow of information towards the western mass media was built up between it and the developed countries. However, it is quite natural that the Third World's international desire to establish a New World Information Order should go together with advances in creating an independent press that is not controlled by the home government. What supports democracy is a free press, and such is the case in India. This paper reviews the author's own experience as a journalist.

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Japanese journalism review

Japanese journalism review 34 (0), 108-114,260, 1985

Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication