{"id":4822,"date":"2019-11-03T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2019-11-03T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T10:39:01","slug":"role-of-media-in-internal-security-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/role-of-media-in-internal-security-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"ROLE OF MEDIA IN INTERNAL SECURITY CHALLENGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Internal Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Role of media in a democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inform and educate people objectively, impartially and in an unbiased manner about security threats and challenges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Unbiased reporting with the restraints of self-regulations<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of the principles of healthy democracy<\/li>\n<li>Respect for the Constitutional Provisions<\/li>\n<li>To build a bridge between people and governments at the national level<\/li>\n<li>Uphold fairness, justice, national unity and international cooperation<\/li>\n<li>Inform, educate, entertain, publicize and most importantly correct the excesses in any society.<\/li>\n<li>Highlight the trouble spots in the society and press the government and public to devise suitable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>mechanisms to eliminate them<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shape the perceptions of government, influence public opinion, promote democracy, good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>governance as well as influence peoples\u2019 behaviour and support people- oriented policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Security&amp; Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The media and national security policy of a nation have a strong connection in the contemporary environment. Television news in India, with far too many channels competes for viewership 24\/7, and with the \u2018Breaking News\u2019 sensation, sets the pace for the print media. The distinction between facts, opinions, and speculation has blurred into irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p>The connection between the media and national security policy is both direct and indirect. In the case of a strong administration, news is news and policy is policy. Under less certain administrations with low approval ratings and certainly administrations whose policies are undeveloped or who do not have a solid philosophical basis of operation; are subject to greater degrees of influence by dramatic reporting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Media Misleading? \u2013 Threat to Internal Security<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian media does not have a wider perspective of India\u2019s national security issues.<\/li>\n<li>Indian media is in no mood to apply brakes or observe self-restraint on its wayward and insensitive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>treatment of national security issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian media\u2019s (especially electronic media) analysis and over-analysis of national security issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>by groups of former diplomats, generals and academia\u2019s arm chair strategists distort national<\/p>\n<p>security perspectives. All these gentlemen can only draw on their outdated experience and none of<\/p>\n<p>them are privy to latest inputs. Also, in many cases, reticence is their first casualty after retirement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian TV anchors discussing national security issues do not have the political and strategic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>maturity to discuss national security issues as their Western counter-parts do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian TV debates on national security issues tend to cut out development of contrary views and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>perspectives by imposing commercial breaks, or go hectoring themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Internal Security \u00a0Role of media in a democracy Inform and educate people objectively, impartially and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,72],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-internal-security","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}