Question: Write a composition on Benefits / Importance of Reading Newspaper
Answer: We cannot think of modern life without a newspaper. Even before the advent of dawn, we think of our newspaper. Indeed, newspaper reading has become a passion for us.
Dailies mainly give us the news. Weeklies, Fifteen days intervals and monthlies contain stories, articles, dramas, and poems. They supply good literature and review the best books of the day.
A newspaper is the supplier of all sorts of news and views. Merchants read the paper to know market conditions. Sportsmen amuse themselves with sports-news. A professor or a teacher gathers news and views on literary topics. Statesmen keep themselves informed of the diplomacy of the world. Newspapers have also corners for children and women. Students read the newspaper to supplement the education that they receive at schools and colleges. It is our good companion in our solitary hours or in a railway compartment. It brings sleep on the wakeful eyes of the sick.
A newspaper is the powerful instrument of publicity. Railway timings, government notifications, laws and bills, and projects and given publicity through the newspaper. A newspaper serves the nation. It helps the growth of public opinion and voices public grievances.
A newspaper helps the government in various ways. But the newspaper is not an unmixed blessing. A newspaper, guided by passions and prejudices, does a lot of mischiefs.
However, the newspaper has made the world smaller and helps one nation to understand the other. Thus it champions the cause of equality, liberty, and fraternity.