DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (MC and JR)/MJMC DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2018.
MEDIA HISTORY AND LAWS IN INDIA
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in 200 words each.
1. What is the difference between Ethics and Law?
2. Right to Information Act.
3. Press Council of India.
4. Telegraph Act 1933.
5. Press Information Bureau.
6. Registrar of Newspapers for India.
7. Code of ethics.
8. Right to privacy.
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions in 400 words each.
9. Write an essay on ethics in news publishing.
10. What are the ethics of media suggested by the Press
Council India?
11. Describe code of ethics of Indian Press Council.
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12. Write the short history of Indian cinema.
13. What do you understand by the Contempt of Courts Act?
14. How the Act of defamation affects the freedom of press?
15. Elucidate the Indian Telegraph Act-1885 and Indian Post
office Act-1898.
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