Do you support free press?

Do you support free press?

Thomas Jefferson once said that if he has to decide whether there should be a government without newspapers or the other way newspapers without a government, he will select newspapers without a government. He gave due importance to the uncritical press. The importance of press in the society or providing vital information in any country cannot be ignored. And it has become all more significant in the internet world. So, do you think free press matters? Do you support free press?

Yes

• Professional free press with a sense of responsibility is an effective tool to encourage a healthy democracy. It is the way to good governance.

• Only responsible free press can throw light on the unscrupulous methods of political leaders and business tycoons.

• Absence of free press encourages the corruption to touch the new heights and people lives and properties remains at stake.

• A person who is suppressed by the powerful people can opt for free press to express its opposing views in front of the people.

• The presence of free press stops the government from providing false accusations, instead brings in the biased information for the public.

• It is the free press and open media that are vital for the presence of balance form of globalization and making aware the local masses aware about its pros and cons time to time.

No

• Sometimes free press goes a way ahead and crosses the pre defined ethical and moral boundaries.

• Free press if forgets its responsibility that can negatively influence the public opinion and views.

• Most of the time, the media is owned by the rich tycoons who run the press as per their opinions and agendas.

• Internet and social media has given rise to bloggers who are a part of new citizen journalists that don’t possess the knowledge and experience of presenting informed news.

• Media or press is a part of social institution and everything that is part of social institution has to work according to a mechanism.

• Free Press will gather the information from the various sources that may present a diplomatic form of information.

Conclusion

If you ask the local masses about the press, they call it as a tool of rich and powerful people. They don’t find it supporting the ethical means of media and press. The need is to encourage the integrity of the press and that can come more from the freedom of press. The press can be creative as well as destructive. Therefore, it raises the need to have an open perception and opt for a honest and independent free press.