Gender Bias in Indian News Media Study of the Odia Language News Papers

Abstract

Media are in the business of providing information. Women and men read watch and listen to this information daily which is in the shape of what we know as news. The media do not merely represent; they also recreate themselves and their vision of the world as desirable, saleable. What they reproduce is chosen, not random, not neutral, not without consequence. The media’s focus on the current issues and events of the day and the collection and editing of this information for presentation through the news media – newspapers, television and radio – is the practice of journalism. News is a choice, and extraction process, saying that one event is more meaningful than another event. The very act of saying that means making judgments that are based on values and based on frames.