Increasing impact of social media in India

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In the eighties when the Bofors scam hit the headlines everyone was eager to read “The Hindu” newspaper, where it was exposed by Chitra Subramanian and N Ram – of The Hindu. It was print media which was the torch bearers. But by the beginning of this century TV has overtaken print media in terms of “Breaking News” whether it is of Adarsh scam or that of CWG and 2G. TV as medium has become the MSM or Main Stream Media. Actually print media world over is struggling to function as a pure news media since TV has pre-empted it the previous night. Read more at: https://www.freepressjournal.in/ujjain/increasing-impact-of-social-media-in-india

Publication Date

4-5-2012

Publication Title

The Free Press Journal

Publisher

Indian National Press

Keywords

Social media, Social sites, Social networks, Facebook, Twitter, 2G, CWG, Scam

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https://www.freepressjournal.in/ujjain/increasing-impact-of-social-media-in-india#bypass-sw

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