The IT enabled social media platforms have
become the common-man’s Press, and, as a result, newspapers have become less
significant in many circles, say among youngsters, professionals and even new
generation politicians.
· Are social media spaces as
powerful as the Press?
· What is the substance behind
the “less significant” argument on newspapers?
Social
media portals have come a long way as platforms for common man’s expression and
information needs and they are making their mark among some. However, the ‘less
significant’ claim on the age-old newspapers is out of place.
Newspapers
too powerful to be outshone by any other media form, whether it is electronic
or print or audio or audio-visual. The thing social medias are very recent in origin,
and their reach is proportional to the digital literary of the populace. Besides
this, newspapers are in all regional languages and the come calling every find
morning making people’s lives more meaningful and informed. Social medias are
able to make people express themselves, and press is not as expressing as the other,
and the former much cheaper and the latter is a little expensive. But when it
comes to their individual power, social medias might be globally binding, newspapers
are locally bold and democratically crucial.
In
such a context, it is easier to prove that the ‘less significant’ argument is
premature How can an age-old tradition of printing, publishing and reading go
insignificant due to the onslaught of a media of the digitally educated? It is impossible.
Political leaders, techno savvy younger bloods and some IT driven professionals
may be falling back on social medias for sharing their thoughts and keeping their
thought processes influenced. But that is not enough to undermine a media like
the Press. It is too big for social media portals.
My
conclusion is social medias are powerful places for expression and information,
and they will be more so for common man in the coming days, but the Press is
not up for anyone’s influences thus making it insignificant. The Press is one, only
one of its kind and formidable.
290 words
Jaypeesdoc. 11.12.14
www.jpsukham.blogspot.com. Google. Vaatupura A.
Jayaprakash
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