Nowadays, when all are more or less educated, almost everybody reads some daily paper. A man who never reads a newspaper cannot keep in touch with the times. A newspaper is a paper that gives us news of events as they happen every moment in different parts of the world. Indeed, a newspaper has become almost an indispensable part of modern life.
A modern newspaper is a chronicle and an encyclopedia in miniature. Merchants read them to know the condition of the market. Sportsmen find pleasures in reading the sports news. The film fans go through the cinema page to get the thrill. From the advertisement columns, the employment seekers and traders get useful hints and information. Statesmen read the papers to know the political currents of the world. It is for all these reasons that the newspaper has become a universal reading matter today.
Newspapers educate public mind and help to form public opinion. They voice the sufferings of the people and seek for redress. Indeed, the press is so powerful that it can make or unmake governments. That is why, whenever government becomes tyrannical, it tries to control the press and destroy its freedom.
A good newspaper gives us much more dependable news. We read it on political, social and other matters. We must be careful when we read it.
Sometimes a newspaper rouses popular passions against a country or a people or a community by giving exaggerated versions of minor incidents. Sometimes they excite people in a wrong cause and thus mislead them instead of giving them correct news and views.
The great majority of newspaper readers are uncritical. Only a few think for themselves, and form their own opinions. On the whole, newspaper reading is a very good habit. In order to be up to date with news and views, we should read newspapers.
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