Importance of Reading Newspapers

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Introduction The newspaper is all important these days. It is almost the first thing that greets you in the morning. You read what is happening in all parts of the world and for a while get out of the narrow circle of your personal affairs. So much is happening every day that unless you keep yourself abreast of these changes you cannot adjust yourself to them or move with the times smoothly and easily. Benefits A modern newspaper is a chronicle and an encyclopedia in miniature. It records events that happen. It seeks not only to inform but to interest, to stimulate, and to excite. For a busy man, is hardly possible to read everything that it contains. One man is interested in politics, another in sports. These are matters of personal preference. But generally, it is necessary for all alike to read the progress that is being made from day to day in the affairs of your country and in the affairs to the world. Reading a newspaper makes a man fit to participate usefully in a cultivated society. Caution while Reading Newspaper But newspapers contain much that is useless or even harmful. Newspapers have a trick of handling sensational news that excites national passions. There is a part of the means to increase circulation. They also help to decry or boost up political parties according to the colour of the newspaper. A reader must be particularly on guard against this type of journalism. He must be critical and circumspect. How to Read a Newspaper It is necessary to have a basic knowledge of history and geography, or political and economic theories. Unless one knows the historical background or the geographical location of events reported, they will convey little of value of importance. In short, one must bring to the reading of newspapers an educated mind, an informed judgment, and an essentially critical understanding if they are to
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