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How Free is The Press - Author
How Free is The Press - Summary
How Free is The Press - Summary In Hindi
[ 1 ] The news in the newspapers is generally –
(A) to the point
(B) somewhat changed
(C) completely changed
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 2 ] Decent journalists and responsible editors are not pleased with present affairs –
(A) true
(B) not true
(C) cannot be said
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ A |
[ 3 ] The press enjoys the –
(A) boldness of public
(B) the helpnessness of the public
(C) idleness of the public
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 4 ] The editorial policy of a popular daily is controlled by –
(A) two chief factors
(B) three chief factors
(C) four cheif factors
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ A |
[ 5 ] No widely circulated newspaper daręs support a public policy due to vested interest of-
(A) the government
(B) editor
(C) reporter
(D) advertisers
| Answer ⇒ D |
[ 6 ] A big circulation spells bankruptcy if the paper has to depend on –
(A) the sales
(B) advertisers
(C) salers
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ A |
[ 7 ] The policy of a newspaper is largely determined by—
(A) the government
(B) the public
(C) the proprietor
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ C |
[ 8 ] The auther has given the forms of misrepresentation,they are –
(A) five
(B) four
(C) seven
(D) six
| Answer ⇒ D |
[ 9 ] Dorothy L.Sayers was born in –
(A) 1863
(B) 1873
(C) 1883
(D) 1893
| Answer ⇒ D |
how free is the press question answer
[ 10 ] She died in –
(A) 1967
(B) 1957
(C) 1977
(D) 1987
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 11 ] She was educated at –
(A) Cambridge
(B) Oxford
(C) both
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 12 ] In democracy, the freedom of press is –
(A) not necessary
(B) necessary
(C) dangerous
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 13 ] Freedom of press is restricted during –
(A) peace
(B) war
(C) epidemic
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 14 ] The state is the –
(A) master of the people
(B) servant of the people
(C) exploiter of the people
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 15 ] The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is-
(A) official
(B) unofficial
(C) both
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 16 ] ‘How free is the Press’ is written by –
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) H.E. Bates
(C) Dorothy L. Sayers
(D) Dr Zakir Hussain
| Answer ⇒ C |
[ 17 ] Dorathy L. Sayers has written the lesson –
(A) I Have a Dream
(B) How free is the Press
(C) The Earth
(D) A child is Born
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 18 ] Censorship is imposed during-
(A) election
(B) peaceful time
(C) emergency
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ C |
[ 19 ] casa……are careful not to antagonize the press.
(A) Doctors
(B) Traders
(C) Teachers
(D) Politicians
| Answer ⇒ D |
[ 20 ] The ……………. is not the master but the servant of the people.
(A) State
(B) Government
(C) Village
(D) District
| Answer ⇒ A |
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[ 21 ] Afree and fair press is the true watch ……….. of democracy.
(A) cat
(B) bird
(C) dog
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ A |
[ 22 ] The first chief source of a newspaper’s revenue is ………….
(A) donation
(B) debt
(C) grant by the governinent
(D) advertisement
| Answer ⇒ D |
[ 23 ] The ………… Press is, under ordinary conditions, singularly free.
(A) European
(B) British
(C) Indian
(D) Chinese
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 24 ] The second chief source of a newspaper’s revenue is —
(A) debt
(B) donation
(C) the wealth of owner
(D) grant by the government
| Answer ⇒ C |
[ 25 ] The ……..ooo can make or break reputation.
(A) teacher
(B) press
(C) man
(D) None of these
| Answer ⇒ B |
[ 26 ] The editorial policy of a popular daily is controlled by orangan, chief factors.
(A) one
(B) two
(C) three
(D) four
| Answer ⇒ B |
How Free is The Press - Subjective Question
Short Question
Q1-What do free 'people take for granted ?
Ans - That without a free press there can be no free people is a thing that all free people take for granted.
Q2- Are there restrictions on Press in time of war ?
Ans - Yes there restriction on press in time of war .
Q3-What do you mean by the term 'Free Press ?
Ans - We usually mean freedom in a very technical and restricted sense namely freedom from direction or censorship by he government . The Britsh Press is under ordinary conditions , singularly free
Q4-Who is the master -the state or the people ?
Ans - People are the master .
Q5 -What does the unofficial censorship seek to do ?
Ans - Indeed , we may say that the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the press but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
Q6 -Name two sources of revenue newspapers usually survive on . ?
Ans - The Two sources of revenue on which newspapers usually survive on are : (i) Income from advertisers (ii) Owner's Wealth.
B:2.1 -Complete the following sentences on the basis of the unit you have just studied .
(a) Accurate reporting has given place to reporting which is at best slipshod and at worst tendentious because it is assumed that ...
(b) Sensational headlines , false emphasis and supposition of context are some of the ways to ----------
(c) ---------- is the special accomplishment of the Press interviewer .
(d) The date in the newspaper report had to be changed to.........
Ans - (a) reader can be made to believe anything.
(b) the complementary dangers.
(c) Garbling.
(d) Conceal the fact that the news was already cold ; and I was substituted for the boy , presumably for my greater snob-value
B.2.3 Answer the following question briefly .
Q1. What are the two basic assumption about the public ?
Ans - The two basic assumptions about the public are that they have no wit and they can be made to believe anything .
Q2. What is supposition of context ?
Ans - The supposition of context is that readers can be made to believe anything .
Q3. Name two things that make the report unreliable reading?
Ans - Inaccurate reporting of facts and grabling.
B.3.1 Read the following sentences and write 'T' for true and 'F' for false statements :
(i) The author was very fond of gardening and keeping cats .
(ii) The author had delivered 20,000 words in the space of an hour and a quarter.
(iii) To misrepresent a man's attitude and opinion is no offence.
(iv) To get misleading statements corrected is very easy.
(v) Any public person is subtly made to feel that if he offends the press he will suffer for it.
(vi) The press can make or bread reputation .
Ans - (i) F (ii) F (iii) F (iv) F , (v) T (vi) T.
B.3.2 Answer the following question briefly .
Q1. Why do books rarely criticise the press ?
Ans - No threat , of course, is openly uttered ; but books and plays may be unfavourably noticed or silently ignored- allusions sneering, though no actually libellous, may crop up in the gossip columns-a thousand hints will be quietly conveyed that the press can make of break reputations .
Q2. How do the newspapers greet the slightest effort to hinder the irresponsible dissemination of nonsense ?
Ans - Speeches may be made , of course , but they will not reach the wider Public for they will not be reported in full ; only a carefully isolated sentence or so will find its way into the papers under some such headline as ; Bishop Seeks to Muzzle Press ; or M.P Attacks Press Liberty Indeed , the slightest effort to hinder the irresponsible dissemination of nonsense is greeted by a concerted howl : this is a threat to the Freedom of the press !
Q3. Name the seven charges the author makes against the Press?
Ans - The seven charge are False Emphasis, Garbling, Inaccuracy. Reversal of the Fact . Random Invention, Miracle- Mongering and Flat suppression.
How Free is The Press - Long Question
Q1-The editorial policy of a popular daily is controlled by two chief factors Which they ? Explain .
Ans - The editorial policy of a popular daily is controlled by two chief factors - the first is the interest of the advertisers from how it gets the money which enables it to keep up its large circulation. No widely circulated newspaper dare suport a public , however much in the national interest , that might the marketing of branded goods ( as. For example, of margarine in 1939 ) will be violently opposed. On the loftiest hygienic grounds.,. by the papers that carry the branded adverting. On the other hand any product that refuses to play the high advertising rates of a powerful national organ will be again ( on the highest moral and hygienic grounds ) denounced , smashed and driven off the market .
Q2. What is garbling ? How does Sayers illustrate this form of distortion ?
Ans - Garbling This is special accomplishment of the press interviewer. During the production of my latest play . I was asked , what were my plans for the future ? I paid better and that financial considerations not with standing. if the opportunity to write a play were to present itself - for example. another commission for the " canterburg festival I should undoubtedly write it. This reply duly appeared in the . in the form miss Sayers said she would write no moer play - except on commission "
Q3. Describe in your own words the instance of deliberate miracle mongering ?
Ans - Deliberate Miracle mongering it was recently reported in various local papers that , in a public address, I had delivered some 20,000 words is the space of hour and a quarter . This would in any case have been impossible actually, the reporter had the full text of my speech in his hands and could have seen for himself that it consisted of almost exacty 8000 wards. The error was thus precisely 150 percent, a useful figure on which to base one's estimate of truth in reporting
Q4. How are letters protest treated by the newspapers? Describe in your own words .
Ans - To get misleading statements corrected entials. in my case a heavy and exhausting of correspondence of the falseshood may be syndicated all over the words over - night and appear simultaneously in several hundred papers .
In addition . if one makes a fuss. or ventures to accuse the newspapers of lack of veracity there always lurks in the background the shadow of genteel blackmail . Any public person - write . speaker actor politician is subtly made to feel that if he offends the press he will suffer for it.
Q5. Have you ever written a letter of protest to any Newspaper ? What was the fate of this letter ?
Ans - No I do not ever written a letter of protest to any news paper
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