Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 27: The Department of Mass Communication and New Media (MCNM) of Central University of Jammu (CUJ) today organized a debate on topic, “Changing trends in Journalism”.
The students of first semester participated in the debate while senior faculty member of MNCM, Dr Bachha Babu was moderator. The main motto of the debate was that the students should know where the media is going and what are the effects of media on people.
The debate started with a formal introduction of the topic “Impact of globalization, introduction of Information and Communication technologies on media.
The students in favour of the topic, opined that globalization in media brought people together thus making them more aware, which in turn has been helping to nurture the democratic set up of country. “Media also sensitizes marginalized section including women, poor, common masses about their rights and after the advent of citizen journalism, transparency in the system has also increased”, one of the student said.
Those, who were against the topic, put forth the examples of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, wherein the media coverage helped terrorists. “With increasing privatization, it mainly focus on advertisements, throwing ethics and moral values into dustbin”, another student claimed.
Moreover, the students were of the opinion that though rape cases happened across the country but media gave coverage to only few cases of Delhi while majority of cases go unreported. Yellow journalism, reconstruction of crime videos, also adversely impacting the society, a student said.
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