Five questions

1.
The Press as a social instrument at times resort to priority reporting thanks to its association with private and business interests. Some people believe that this is fine because the Press is owned and operated mostly by private parties.

• How far is this view agreeable to you?


2.
The Press as a social instrument at times transforms itself into political instruments meant for satisfying the vested interests of one political party of the other. This is unethical and undemocratic.


• How unethical and undemocratic is this tendency in your opinion?

3.
Acronyms, short forms, abbreviations and similar language tools extensively being applied in real-time communication media are able to send wrong linguistic signals to budding language users.

• How genuine is this concern in your opinion?


4.

The aged segment of any population is being looked at with disdain. But the fact is that all the conveniences the younger age segment enjoys are but the blood and sweat of this segment. Some say taking care of the old is the job of the young, whereas some others take the ball to the state’s court.

• Discuss both the views and say what you feel about the aged.
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5.

Most development exercises are aimed at the skilled and educated of a State, but there is a population segment that is either unskilled or not-so-educated who are left in the lurch down the ages.

• How fair is it to orient development towards the better off?
• Make a few suggestions to bridge this development divide.