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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan<br />

Utility and futility of the exercises of media barons to boost globalization/<br />

internationalization<br />

The media owners, particularly of the large conglomerates find it extremely difficult,<br />

however try and balance between their profit motives and achieving an egalitarian society<br />

through their media practices. The barons urgently need internationalized acceptance of<br />

their media agenda but their slight altruistic tendencies in their market in less developed<br />

nations will harm their business severely, contradicting their choice to go global.<br />

When the Cable TV Regulation Act-1993 was enforced in India, it looked out for any<br />

punishable offences in media content and in practices. In order to preserve the freedom of<br />

press, the broadcasters got into a new alert mode and quickly evolved a self-regulation<br />

mechanism wherein- National Broadcasters Association [NBA, New Delhi], Indian<br />

Broadcasters Foundation [IBF, New Delhi] were not only made alibi but also empowered<br />

to receive from and send complaints to Ministry of Information & Broadcasting [MIB-<br />

GOI] on any violation by media that harmed society. It could be a disturbing visual on<br />

electronic media or a jarry-gory illustration in print.<br />

Human Rights movements and child rights movements in India are doing their part while<br />

there is a need for a specialized media commission similar to Children Rights Commission<br />

and National Women Rights Commission which are also given opportunity to look into<br />

grievance of violation of media content. A recent case in point is from the Andhra<br />

Pradesh Human Rights Commission where two teacher-parents filed a case on a TV<br />

channel for abusive use of an under-14 girl child for a dance show.<br />

Epilogue<br />

Globalization has entered too early. Priorities and media content has changed and posed<br />

serious threats to fabric of Indian society. When these developments are in infancy and<br />

takes some time to achieve desired goals, the mindsets of intellectual class, merchants<br />

class, educationists and sociologists needs to change and mould this society into a<br />

systematic, healthy and progressive society by imbibing modernity.<br />

A great nation like Japan will play a key role in joining hands with the large nation like<br />

India in a smooth change-over by application of mass communication dynamics into the<br />

Indian society without damaging the socio-cultural essence of the beautiful Indian soil.<br />

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