The Normative Theories Of Mass Communication

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after he shot dead in 1940. These types of censors are common during Stalin’s reign. Here, Journalist or any media persons should not have any rights to comment, discriminate or stand against the government. Sometimes, an authority gives considerable freedom to minority thoughts and cultural issues to promote them if it doesn’t make any threats to authority or ruler. King – King is the authority, who has all rights to control the communication and no one can question against the king. “The French king Louis XIV was concentrated in his person parliamentary, law making and judicial power. He was the authority of Supreme Court as well as he can condemn a men to death penalty without any rights appeal”. Dictatorship – During the World War II Hitler and Mussolini are the two major authorities who controlled the press in Germany and Italy. Press was under the control of the authority and No press can’t question against or publish against these two dictators. Few countries blocked wiki leaks website from its country to maintain the internal security because the wiki leaks are not ready to compromise with government censorship and realizing classified documents against the government. Libertarian Theory Libertarian theory or the Free Press Theory is one of the Normative Theories of mass communication where media is allowed to write or publish anything whatever they want and whenever or wherever they want. There is no body to stop them .They are liberal here according to their

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