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Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

What allows us to view news and entertainment channels from other parts of the world?

  1. Satellites

  2. Cables

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Television images travel huge distances through satellites and cables and allow us to view news and entertainment channels from other parts of the world. Most of the cartoons that we see on television are mostly from Japan or the United States. We can now be sitting in Chennai or Jammu and can see images of a storm that has hit the coast of Florida in the United States. Thus, television has brought the world closer to us.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

Television images travel huge distances through ______________.

  1. Satellites

  2. Cables

  3. Both A and b

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

 Television has enabled us to think of ourselves as members of a larger global world. Television images travel huge distances through satellites and cables and allows us to view news and entertainment channels from other parts of the world. 

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

Newspapers, television, and radio can reach millions of people because they use certain __________.

  1. Technologies

  2. Colours

  3. Sounds

  4. Images
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Newspapers, television, and radio can reach millions of people because they use certain technologies. Changing technology, or machines, and making technology more modern, helps media to reach more people. It also improves the quality of sound and the images that we see. It also changes the ways in which we think about our lives.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

Television has enabled us to think of ourselves as members of a larger global world.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Digital media technology is helpful in bridging gaps and differences. With the revolution of technology in Media e.g., Television. People can watch happenings all over the world whether it is news, fashion trends, politics, knowledge, charity, humour and so on. We are linked to the world virtually and TV has determined what we know and how we think, the way we believe and how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

When the government prevents either a news item, or scenes from a movie, or the lyrics of a song from being shared with the larger public, this is referred to as ___________.

  1. Approval

  2. Encouragement

  3. Endorsement

  4. Censorship
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The government has some control on the media. When the government prevents either a news item, or scenes from a movie, or the lyrics of a song from being shared with the larger public, this is referred to as censorship. There have been periods in Indian history when the government censored the media. The worst of these was during the Emergency between 1975-1977.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

An independent media is not so important in a democracy.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Media plays an important role in democracy. It is regarded as the fourth pillar of democracy. It provides news and discusses events taking place in the country. It makes people aware of how the government works, what are the policies being implemented by the government so that people can take action accordingly. 

It plays important role in promoting transparency in the system. Writing a balanced report depends on the media being independent. It means media is not influenced or controlled by anyone not even government. It writes news unbiasedly and upholds the trusts of people in the media.
Independent media forms the backbone of awareness in the country. Biased media can manipulate the facts and figure and falsification will ultimately lead to deterioration of democracy.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

Writing a balanced report depends on the media being independent.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Media plays an important role in democracy. It is regarded as the fourth pillar of democracy. It provides news and discusses events taking place in the country. It makes people aware of how the government works, what are the policies being implemented by the government so that people can take action accordingly. 

It plays important role in promoting transparency in the system. Writing a balanced report depends on the media being independent. It means media is not influenced or controlled by anyone. It writes news unbiasedly and upholds the trusts of people in the media.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

We term TV and radio as the __________.

  1. Electronic media

  2. Print media

  3. Digital media

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Electronic media are media that uses electronics or electromechanical energy to transmit the informations. For example TV, radio, audio recording, video recording, CD-ROM, and online contents. Through electronic media information reaches to the audience much faster than print media.

Multiple choice civics media and democracy role and importance of media understanding media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

____________ is a local fortnightly that is run by Dalit women in Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh.

  1. Khabar Lahriya

  2. Akhabar

  3. Times of India

  4. The Indian Express
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Khabar Lahariya is an Indian local newspaper started in the year 2002. The first issue of the newspaper was published in may 2002 from the town of Karwi in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh. The newspaper covers local political news, local crime report, social issues, and entertainment all reported from a feminist point of view. It is run by Dalit women and published in rural dialects of Hindi and Avadhi.