Florence Nightingales Environmental Theory
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PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AGAINST KKNPP: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE TAMIL NEWS WEBSITES’ COVERAGE OF THE PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AGAINST KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
FR. MICHAEL FRANCIS
2009-79325
COLLEGE OF MASS COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPINES, DILIMAN.
I. INTRODUCTION
The People’s Protests Against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) is one of the longest and largest protests in the history of India and this is the only protest which lasted for more than two years in one of the Indian states called Tamil Nadu (TN), interestingly, this protests has no direct influence of any political party. This protest held at Idindakarai by people who live in the vicinity of Kudankulam, a neighboring village of Kudankulam.
Up to now the protesters had been using so many methods of protests to express that they don’t want the Nuclear Plant because of its danger in case of accident. Including three deaths there are more than 3000 cases had been filled against the protesters and many people were imprisoned but still they continue the protest. As with any significant news event, the people’s protests against KKNPP have been covered by all the newspapers and their online news both national and state. But coverage of the protests, the angle the media especially news websites look at the issue, the meaning they give to the issue differs and sometime totally opposite from one another.
While print media is struggling to survive in Europe and USA, India has a largest newspaper market next to China with 88.90 million copies of circulation every day. During the time of independence in 1947, India had only 3533 publications and among them 330 was daily newspapers and 3205 were periodicals. After 50 years, there has been a 12 fold increase in the number of publications. By quoting the Register of News Roy in his article says, in 1997, there were 41705 publications among which the number of newspapers was 4719. In 2006, this has gone
PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AGAINST KKNPP: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE TAMIL NEWS WEBSITES’ COVERAGE OF THE PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AGAINST KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
FR. MICHAEL FRANCIS
2009-79325
COLLEGE OF MASS COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPINES, DILIMAN.
I. INTRODUCTION
The People’s Protests Against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) is one of the longest and largest protests in the history of India and this is the only protest which lasted for more than two years in one of the Indian states called Tamil Nadu (TN), interestingly, this protests has no direct influence of any political party. This protest held at Idindakarai by people who live in the vicinity of Kudankulam, a neighboring village of Kudankulam.
Up to now the protesters had been using so many methods of protests to express that they don’t want the Nuclear Plant because of its danger in case of accident. Including three deaths there are more than 3000 cases had been filled against the protesters and many people were imprisoned but still they continue the protest. As with any significant news event, the people’s protests against KKNPP have been covered by all the newspapers and their online news both national and state. But coverage of the protests, the angle the media especially news websites look at the issue, the meaning they give to the issue differs and sometime totally opposite from one another.
While print media is struggling to survive in Europe and USA, India has a largest newspaper market next to China with 88.90 million copies of circulation every day. During the time of independence in 1947, India had only 3533 publications and among them 330 was daily newspapers and 3205 were periodicals. After 50 years, there has been a 12 fold increase in the number of publications. By quoting the Register of News Roy in his article says, in 1997, there were 41705 publications among which the number of newspapers was 4719. In 2006, this has gone