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The correct answer is Press Trust of India.

Key Points

• Press Trust of India
  • It is the largest news agency in India, headquartered in New Delhi.
  • This nonprofit cooperative Indian newspaper was formed in 1948.
  • Press Trust of India has over 500 full-time employees, including 400 journalists.
  • It has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres.
  • Press Trust of India took over Associated Press of India from Reuters.

Additional Information

• Prasar Bharathi
  • It is a state-owned public broadcaster.
  • Prasar Bharathi is a statutory autonomous body headquartered in New Delhi.
  • It was set up by an Act of Parliament.
  • It also comprises the Doordarshan (DD) Television Network and Akashvani All India Radio.
  • According to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021, DD News and All India Radio are the most trusted News brands in India.
• UNI
  • The full form of UNI is United News of India.
  • It is a multilingual news agency in India.
  • It was an English news agency founded in 1959.
  • The commercial operations of UNI started in 1961.
  • It is one of the multilingual and second-largest news services in India.
• Press Guild
  • The Broadcasting Press Guild is a British association of journalists.
  • It is purely dedicated to general media issues.
  • The Press Guild was established in 1974.
  • One of the main activities of the Press Guild is to host luncheons where leading industry figures are engaged in dialogue.

The correct answer is option 1.

Key Points

Amrita Bazar Patrika

• The Amrita Bazar Patrika was one of India's first daily newspapers.
• Sisir Kumar Ghose and Moti Lal Ghosh published Amrita Bazar Patrika for the first time on February 20, 1868.

Swarajya 

• With the support of Bodi Narayana Rao, Gadicherla Harisarvottama Rao launched the Telugu weekly newspaper 'Swarajya' in 1908. He published numerous essays in this newspaper denouncing the British government's many discriminatory practices.

The Hindustan Times

• ​Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, the founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab Province launched Hindustan Times in 1924. As a nationalist newspaper, it played an important part in the Indian independence movement.

Deccan Herald ​

• Deccan Herald was founded by K. N. Guruswamy on June 17, 1948.

The correct answer is (A) is true, but (R) is false.

Key Points

• As per ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, only 43 percent of the population in India uses the internet. 
• The IAMAI-Kantar Report ICUBE 2020 suggests that there are 58 percent male internet users and 42 percent female internet users in India. 
• The digital divide can be explained as the inequalities between the digital haves and the have-nots in terms of their access to the internet and the ICTs. 
• The digital divide poses severe social implications.
• The inability to access technology has the potential to increase existing social exclusions and deprive individuals of essential resources.
• The knowledge economy is focused on the essential importance of human capital in the 21st-century economy. 
• The knowledge economy is characterized by the presence of a higher percentage of highly skilled employees whose jobs require special knowledge or skills.
• In the new knowledge economy, the most valuable assets that a company owns are often intangible assets – such as patents, copyrights, or proprietary software or processes.

The correct answer is a - 3, b - 1, c - 4, d - 2

Key PointsW.W. Rostow

• Walt Whitman Rostow (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist, professor, and political theorist.
• Rostow's stages of the economic growth model are one of the major historical models of economic growth.
• The model postulates that economic growth occurs in five basic stages, of varying lengths:

1. The traditional society
2. The preconditions for take-off
3. The take-off
4. The drive to maturity
5. The age of high mass-consumption

Shannon & Weaver

• The Shannon–Weaver model of communication has been called the "mother of all models.
• The term Shannon–Weaver model was widely adopted in social science fields such as education, communication sciences, organizational analysis, and psychology.
• Shannon and Weaver developed information entropy as a measure for the uncertainty in a message while essentially inventing what became known as the dominant form of information theory.
• In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent to the variable's possible outcomes.
• Shannon's theory defines a data communication system as composed of three elements: a source of data, a communication channel, and a receiver. 

Marshall McLuhan

• Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
• McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message" in the name of the first chapter of his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964.
• According to McLuhan, the study of a communication medium should be focused on the medium itself rather than the messages it conveys.
• He demonstrated how artifacts like media have an impact on any civilization based on their qualities or content.

Herbert Spencer:

• Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism.
• Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) 
• He was an early advocate of the theory of evolution.
• Who achieved an influential synthesis of knowledge, advocating the preeminence of the individual over society and of science over religion.

The correct answer is Justice J.R. Mudholkar

Key Points

• Justice J R Mudholkar, a Supreme Court judge at the time, became the Chairman of the Press Council of India when it was constituted on 4 July 1966, as a statutory, quasi-judicial body.
• The Council came into effect on 16 November later that year. The Council was formed under the Press Council Act of 1978.
• The Press Council Act, 1965, listed the following functions of the Council in furtherance of its objects :

1. To help newspapers to maintain their independence
2. To build up a code of conduct for newspapers and journalists in accordance with high professional standards
3. To ensure on the part of newspapers and journalists the maintenance of high standards of public taste and foster a due sense of both the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
4. To encourage the growth of a sense of responsibility and public service among all those engaged in the profession of journalism.
5. To keep under review any development likely to restrict the supply and dissemination of news of public interest and importance
6. To keep under review such cases of assistance received by any newspaper or news agency in India from foreign sources, as are referred to it by the Central Government.

• Press Council of India (PCI) – Composition
• PCI has a Chairman, Apart from the Chairman there will be 28 members.
• The Composition of 28 Members in PCI is listed below.

1. 2 Rajya Sabha Members
2. 3 Lok Sabha Members
3. 7 Working Journalists (other than editors of newspapers)
4. 6 Editors of Newspapers
5. 3 people with specialized knowledge of public life
6. 1 person who manages news agencies
7. 6 persons in the business of managing newspapers.

The correct answer is Press Trust of India.

Key Points

• Press Trust of India
  • It is the largest news agency in India, headquartered in New Delhi.
  • This nonprofit cooperative Indian newspaper was formed in 1948.
  • Press Trust of India has over 500 full-time employees, including 400 journalists.
  • It has correspondents in major capitals and important business centres.
  • Press Trust of India took over Associated Press of India from Reuters.

Additional Information

• Prasar Bharathi
  • It is a state-owned public broadcaster.
  • Prasar Bharathi is a statutory autonomous body headquartered in New Delhi.
  • It was set up by an Act of Parliament.
  • It also comprises the Doordarshan (DD) Television Network and Akashvani All India Radio.
  • According to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021, DD News and All India Radio are the most trusted News brands in India.
• UNI
  • The full form of UNI is United News of India.
  • It is a multilingual news agency in India.
  • It was an English news agency founded in 1959.
  • The commercial operations of UNI started in 1961.
  • It is one of the multilingual and second-largest news services in India.
• Press Guild
  • The Broadcasting Press Guild is a British association of journalists.
  • It is purely dedicated to general media issues.
  • The Press Guild was established in 1974.
  • One of the main activities of the Press Guild is to host luncheons where leading industry figures are engaged in dialogue.

The correct answer is Digdarshan - Samachar Darpan - Samvad Kaumudi - Bangadoota.

Key Points

• Digdarshan - Samachar Darpan - Samvad Kaumudi - Bangadoota. 
• Digdarshan was the first periodical of Bengal in Bangla language.
  • It was a monthly, published by the Srirampur Baptist Mission and edited by John Clark marshman, son of the renowned missionary joshua marshman.
  • The first issue of Digdarshan came out in April 1818.
• Samachar Darpan was a weekly Bengali newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society and distributed in the first half of the 19th century, on 23 May 1818, by the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore.
• Sambad Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper published from Kolkata in the first half of the 19th century by Ram Mohan Roy. It was a noted pro-Reformist publication that actively campaigned for the abolition of the Sati Pratha. First issue date: 1821.
• Bangadoot was published during the period of Ram Mohan Roy after the Sambad Kaumudi. 

The correct answer is Elevating public tastes

Key Points

•  According to the Communist doctrine, the mass media are government instruments that operate under the leadership of the communist party.
• The media is not concerned with giving out real information about the leaders or government rather it can be used by the government to elevate public tastes and preferences.

Concept of communist media

• Media is supposed to work for the betterment of the state, communism, and whatever the elite of the communist party tells them to do. Deterring the growth of communism is taken as a crime.
• The media is designed to promote the state, communism, and whatever the communist party's top directs them to do. Stopping the spread of communism is considered a crime.
• Small criticisms of government activities are acceptable, but criticizing the state as a whole is forbidden in communist media philosophy. Citizens are portrayed as unreasonable and foolish, and the public is kept away from the government.
• They are only given propaganda and rudimentary information. The general public is not allowed to know about government actions. Whatever the rulers say becomes the law.

The correct answer is Cherry picking.

Key Points

• Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position.
• To illustrate cherry picking- If you are able to select the methods of trials that gives you a positive effects, ignoring the negative effects, it means you are able to cherry pick the facts and quotes in support of your opinion.

The correct answer is Robert Knight.

Key Points

• The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.
• Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India.
• It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India, founded in 1818.
• It is owned by The Statesman Ltd and headquartered at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Kolkata, with its national editorial office at Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi. It is a member of the Asia News Network.

The correct answer is Readability.

Key Points

• The cloze procedure is a reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks.
• This procedure is incredibly useful in reading instruction because it can be easily done by any teacher and provides valuable reading comprehension information.
• A Cloze is an exercise test that consists of a portion of text where certain words are removed and such text are called cloze text.
• This method is used for restoring the missing words.
• This method requires the readers to understand context and vocabulary to identify the correct words that belong in the deleted passages of a text.

The correct answer is Spot news.

Key Points

• Hard news is the kind of most important news that usually appears on the front page of newspapers.
• It is called spot news because it is reported immediately as it occirs and is always the latest one.

The correct answer is Public Journalism.

Key Points

• Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.
• Citizens participate in certain events or happenings giving their comments and opinions.
• Even some citizens give information and happenings to media about the things in their area.

The correct answer is option 1.

Key Points

• The Working Journalists Act come in 1955.
• The Copyright Act come in 1957.
• The Contempt of Courts Act come in 1971.
• The Criminal Procedure Code - Was enacted in 1973 and came into force on 1 April 1974.
• So the correct sequence is the Working Journalists Act, the Copyright Act, the Contempt of Courts Act, and the Criminal Procedure Code.​

Additional Information

• The Working Journalists Act - An Act to regulate certain conditions of service of working journalists and other persons employed in newspaper establishments.
• The Copyright Act - Administrative remedies, civil remedies, and criminal remedies are all available under the Copyright Act of 1957.
• The Contempt of Courts Act - An Act to define and limit the powers of certain courts in punishing contempts of courts and to regulate their procedure in relation thereto.
• The Criminal Procedure Code - The Code of Criminal Procedure is India's primary statute governing the procedure for administering substantive criminal law.

The correct answer is Pseudo-event.

Key Points

• Daniel J. Boorstin, an American historian, coined the word pseudo-event in his book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961).
• A pseudo-event is an event staged by a speaker solely to garner media attention and exposure.
  • Although these events have no genuine news value, they are still covered by the media.
• Different pseudo-event are press conferences, political conventions, Celebrity events like Award ceremonies, sex tapes, and Protests and charity events