Volume : IV, Issue : III, March - 2014

Views on Anti–Corruption Movement 2011: Editorial Analysis of Two National English Dailies of India

Arpan Paul

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The Indian Anti–Corruption Movement 2011 provided platform for the common masses to stage protest against the escalating acts of scams and scandals. Anna Hazare being the leader, the popular movement has been one of the most successful events in independent India and often equated as the second independence movement by various critics and media professionals. The research takes into account certain editorials along with letters–to–editor of this mass movement by two select national English newspapers of India in order to find the importance given by respective newspaper of different editions to it. The analysis helps understand the relation that exists between editorials and readers’ viewpoints about the movement and the extent of consonance anddissonance between the two, for each newspaper, thereby clarifying the stand taken by the selected papers in portraying the reactions of the public about the movement.

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Arpan Paul Views on Anti-Corruption Movement 2011: Editorial Analysis of Two National English Dailies of India Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. III

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