Suchergebnisse

This study tries to find out the extent of coverage and treatment given to rural news in national dailies of Delhi. Through content analysis the researcher tries to find out the coverage of rural news in two national dailies of Delhi, one Hindi and one English, namely, Dainik Jagran and The Hindu, respectively with comparative analysis. Print media specially the newspaper is one of the important tools to communicate about development information to the rural population. How far newspapers are catering to the informational needs of the rural folk is under scrutiny. The content analysis of the two leading newspapers of Delhi have depicted a dismal picture in coverage of development stories and news related to rural areas. Rural news hardly appears in newspapers and few news items reported in inner pages of the newspaper by the reporters. The maximum rural news published in newspapers is not related to rural development; it is only concerned with accidents, crime and politics. Far from balance between urban and rural reporting, there is negilisable reporting about rural areas. Thus, only focus newspapers have is on urban elite, hence the development cycle is hampered resulting in the gap between the rural and urban India in achieving development. Rural keeps on remaining the same underdeveloped, laid back or deprive; the first step towards bridging this gap would be equal or due coverage and information access to rural areas, it's high time newspapers take this responsibility seriously.