The
personal electronic presence on the web like Facebook portals, blogs and similar
social media platforms have become common-man’s Press, and, as a result, the
significance of conventional newspaper is going down among youngsters,
professionals and even politicians.
·
Do
you think personal portals are so powerful as to make common-man fall back on
them like the Press?
·
Is
it alright to believe that the popularity of newspaper is waning?
Social media as such have
been making great headway in terms of carrying out media jobs to an extent, and
ordinary people depend on them for expressing themselves and being informed
thereof. But, I do not think it is as powerful as the Press, and the popularity
of the latter is getting higher.
The electronic presence of a
person on the web is powerful in a limited sense as it is confined mostly to
circles and fraternities. For example, these accounts are mutually shared and
kept uploaded and downloaded. But, in some cases, they are used by youngsters,
professionals and politicians to invite the attention of their followers and
networks. Opinion polls, surveys and actions and reactions of a community are
carried out in a global manner, and there are occasions when these portals act
as instruments of governments. There is s Press role of course, but not as
powerful as newspapers.
Newspapers are a different class
by themselves, and they have been making enormous changes, even revolutions, in
the world. Basically, the Press is called the Fourth Estate of a functioning
democracy where the governance is smoothened by newspapers. Secondly, reading
is a different experience, and a newspaper is a brainchild of some hundred
writers, to say the least, and the information, data, observations and opinions
a Daily has are too much for any social
media platform. Finally, many media surveys show that the readership graph of newspaper
is mounting. So it is wrong to believe that the Press is fading. Press is for
all who can read, but social medias are only for techies.
The conclusion is social
media is one instrument and the Press is a totally different one, though both
are able to carry out some common duties. But, the latter has proved that it is
too formidable for any other media.
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