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What is Interstate Migrant Labour

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
Labour who move from state to state in search of jobs.
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COVID-19 and the Mass Media: A Scenario of the Pandemic in India
Subir Sinha (Dum Dum Motijheel College, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch031
Abstract
COVID-19 is the cause of the greatest pandemic of the century that affects almost every nation of our globe. In India, mass media has played a significant role in this pandemic situation. The media coverage revealed fearlessly the condition of COVID-19 and provides a pictorial view of the situation in front of the readers and viewers. The main objectives of these fearless journalistic works were to provide the public valuable authentic information, create awareness among the public, eliminate fake propaganda and fake news, highlight the problem face by the ordinary public, and to provide the government a medium to speak with the public for the public interest. Mass media served as a vital weapon to fight against COVID-19. The valuable information and instructions provided by mass media created awareness among the public and which played a major role to deescalate the graphical representation of active COVID-19 cases. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the dogmatic approaches of the mass media in the pandemic situation have recalled the concept of media as the third pillar of democracy.
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