Consider the following statements about live television coverage:
(A) Channels compete to run exclusive live coverage of events for higher viewership.
(B) In the Prince case, the trapped boy was finally rescued by the police.
(C) Television cameras peeping into people's private or intimate moments is described as voyeurism.
(D) In the Prince case, news channels suspended all other programmes to show continuous footage.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A, C and D only
(A) Channels compete to run exclusive live coverage of events for higher viewership. — Correct. Channels compete to outdo one another in running exclusive live coverage of events for gaining higher viewership.
(B) In the Prince case, the trapped boy was finally rescued by the police. — Incorrect. Prince was rescued by the army after a 50-hour ordeal, in which a parallel shaft was dug through a well.
(C) Television cameras peeping into people's private or intimate moments is described as voyeurism. — Correct. Voyeurism means peeping into other people's private or intimate moments, here by television cameras.
(D) In the Prince case, news channels suspended all other programmes to show continuous footage. — Correct. Two news channels suspended all other programmes and showed continuous footage of the child for two days.
NCERT (2026-27): “Television … “You may have watched on television the whole rescue operation. If not you can choose from any other event. Organise a debate in class around the following points: 1. What is the likely impact of this competition among television channels to outdo one another in running exclusive live coverage of events for gaining higher viewership? 2. Can we look at this issue as a kind of voyeurism (peep into some other people’s private/intimate moments) indulged in by television cameras? …” |