Discuss critically the progress of Print and Electronic media and what type of attitude was adopted by the foreign government for it?

Under British rule newspapers and magazines, films and radio comprised the range of mass media. Radio was wholly owned by the state. National views could not be, therefore, expressed. Newspapers and films though autonomous from the state were strictly monitored by the Raj. Newspapers and magazines either in English or vernacular were not very widely circulated as the literate public was limited. Yet their influence far outstripped their circulation as news and information was read and spread by words of mouth from commercial and administrative hubs like markets and trading centres as well as courts and towns. The print media carried a range of opinion, which expressed their ideas of a ‘free India’. These variations were carried over to independent India.