English - Prose Chapter 8: How free is the Press short Answer Questions

Short Questions Answer

Question 1.What does “the freedom of the press” mean?

Answer:Freedom of the press means freedom in a very restricted and technical sense-such as freedom from direction or censorship by the government.

Question 2.What role does the British Press play under ordinary conditions?

Answer:Under ordinary conditions British Press is free to attack the policy and political character of ministers, interfere and raise the voice against scandals, and other democratic measures.

Question 3.What effect brings freedom to the nation?

Answer:Freedom secures and sustains “the central doctrine of democracy”— that the state is not the master but the servant of people.

Question 4.What are the sources of a newspaper’s revenue?

Answer:The source of a newspaper's revenue is (i) The advertisement (ii) The wealth of the man or the company that owns the newspaper.

Question 5.What is the role of decent journalists?

Answer:The role of decent journalists maintains a high standard of “duty, balance and reputation.”

Question 6.What does Dorothy L. SAyers discuss in her essay?

Answer:Dorothy L. Sayer’s discussies the freedom of press.

Question 7.What do free ‘people’ take for granted?

Answer:Free people take it for granted that without a free press there can be no freedom.

Question 8.Are there restrictions on Press in time of war?

Answer:Yes, there are restrictions on Press during the time of war. In fact all liberties are restricted in time of war.

Question 9.What do you mean by the term ‘free press’?

Answer:By free press we mean that the press is free from direction and censorship by the government.

Question 10 .Who is the master, the state or the people?

Answer:The people are the masters. The state is the servant of the people.

Question 11.What does unofficial censorship seek to do?

Answer:The unofficial censorship does not so much seek to express public opinion as to manufacture it.

Question 12 .Name two sources of revenue newspapers usually survive on.

Answer:The two chief sources of revenue of a newspaper are

(i) advertisers.

(ii) the wealth of the company or the man that owns the newspaper.