Now a days newspapers are very important. Without them, our knowledge can never be complete. We get political,economic and other important news by reading them. Current affairs of the world become known to us, when we look into them.
They are helpful in the trade and commerce of a country as news about the manufactured articles, quotations of prices, dealings at stock exchange and rate of commodities are published in them. In this way, we are in a position to know where the various articles of our daily use are produced and from where we can purchase them at a cheaper price.
Advertisements of situations vacant, medicines and sale as well as purchase of car, house, bungalow etc help us to meet our requirements. Notices of sale of plots and land, business premises, lawsuits and other necessary information are published in newspapers for wider circulation.
Examination results and vacancies in government offices as well as transfers and appointments of gazetted officers appear in them. Besides these, criticism of the government policies, speeches delivered in the legislatures and various suggestions about the development of the country can be known through them.
Due to scientific inventions, the countries of the world have been knit together. They have been brought into close contact. No country can afford to live in isolation. We cannot live without having a full knowledge of the affairs of the world. Newspapers help us much in this respect. They inform us of the manifold progress that other countries are making. They are a very important means in spreading knowledge. They tell us what is happening in other parts of the world.
The chief utility of newspapers is first to educate the public and secondly to afford people a common platform to ventilate their social and political grievances. During these days of democracy, they are very important. They are very effective in creating, controlling and moulding the public opinion. They voice the public grievances and check tyranny.
