Role of Media in Kargil
Role of Media in Kargil
Anshu Bhatia
PGP2- 18012
Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Literature Review 3 Discussion of the case 5 Analysis and conclusion 6 Bibliography 7
Abstract
This paper attempts at evaluating the role of media in the Kargil war, which broke out in the summer of 1999, at a time when the Indian media was equipped enough to set the media agenda as well as present the war at an unprecedented scale. As mortals, we have never seen the war situations Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq or Afghanistan but only can perceive the images seen through media reportings. Therefore, many of our perceptions are based on the realism as created by the media owners.
Introduction
The function of media through which they frame the news stories is called as Agenda-setting function of media. In the words of McCombs (2002), in a typical daily newspaper, over 75 percent of the potential news of the day is rejected and never transmitted to the audience (p.4).
(Maxwell E. McCombs, 1993)
Media (or the press) has been said to inhere three basic roles, also called as the "three I 's”. i.e. information, interpretation, and interest. (The Press - The press 's many roles). The limitation of media capacity to enable its thorough surveillant function explains their selectivity. Also called as the ‘Gatekeeping theory’ in mass communications, this along with Agenda setting media theory is closely related to Theory of Framing, according to which , gatekeepers (or the media), certain parts of an event/news are given more attention than the rest. This incomplete revelation can lead to biased opinions amongst different sections of the society, but all the three theories seem to have one point of parity- Media is empowered, has an agenda and transmits only that information which it wants to be channelized across to the public.
Literature Review
“Journalists will say that war is too important to be left to generals. Reporting of war is too important to be
Anshu Bhatia
PGP2- 18012
Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Literature Review 3 Discussion of the case 5 Analysis and conclusion 6 Bibliography 7
Abstract
This paper attempts at evaluating the role of media in the Kargil war, which broke out in the summer of 1999, at a time when the Indian media was equipped enough to set the media agenda as well as present the war at an unprecedented scale. As mortals, we have never seen the war situations Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq or Afghanistan but only can perceive the images seen through media reportings. Therefore, many of our perceptions are based on the realism as created by the media owners.
Introduction
The function of media through which they frame the news stories is called as Agenda-setting function of media. In the words of McCombs (2002), in a typical daily newspaper, over 75 percent of the potential news of the day is rejected and never transmitted to the audience (p.4).
(Maxwell E. McCombs, 1993)
Media (or the press) has been said to inhere three basic roles, also called as the "three I 's”. i.e. information, interpretation, and interest. (The Press - The press 's many roles). The limitation of media capacity to enable its thorough surveillant function explains their selectivity. Also called as the ‘Gatekeeping theory’ in mass communications, this along with Agenda setting media theory is closely related to Theory of Framing, according to which , gatekeepers (or the media), certain parts of an event/news are given more attention than the rest. This incomplete revelation can lead to biased opinions amongst different sections of the society, but all the three theories seem to have one point of parity- Media is empowered, has an agenda and transmits only that information which it wants to be channelized across to the public.
Literature Review
“Journalists will say that war is too important to be left to generals. Reporting of war is too important to be
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