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Newspapers play a vital role in demonstrating the political agenda. Responsibilities also play a very important role and it is linked to the demonstration of today's political agenda (Schmitt in Hiebert and Reuss, 1988). 'Most of us would agree that a free press is important to our constitutional system and should now be subject to artificial or imposed checks and balances. Yet in the absence of such restraints, the press is obliged to exercise voluntarily at least as much caution as is required to the government. Unless the press recognises this obligation to our democracy, the public will continue to be ill informed on issues of risks, not understanding what information should be sought and, either passively or actively, support unwise national policies. Eventually, this could endanger all our institutions, including our free press' (Schmitt in Hiebert and Reuss, 1988: 41)

As Bob Woodward of the Washington Post said that, 'Our job, simply and happily, is to find out what's going on and publish it' (Schmitt in Hiebert and Reuss, 1988: 39). The press is unable or un- willing to make minor but very important distinctions, for example, difference between the nuclear accident and a commercial nuclear plant accident. Both the accidents sound similar but are completely different in their meaning. The press ignores such subtle differences (Schmitt in Hiebert and Reuss, 1988).

Since the first public news sheets called 'Acta Diurna' was posted in 59 B.C by the Romans, the communication of news has been guarded carefully. The distribution of news is completely under strict control and regulation. Even after the development of printing press in the mid fifteenth century, it took more than 150 years for the political climate to change (Hiebert, Ungurait and Bohn, 1982: 244). When Henry VIII came to the throne of England, he set up strong measures to control printing. For more than hundred years, British maintained these restrictions on the press. The first English language newspaper called 'London Gazette' was published in 1665. In 1702, the first daily newspaper, the 'Daily Courant' was published in London and in these 37 years; English newspapers have won a lot of rights, including the freedom to publish without a license (Hiebert, Ungurait and Bohn, 1982: 245).