Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Statement I:Inter-personal communication can be mediated or unmediated.
Statement II:On its part mostly, mass communication need not be mediated.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
CStatement I is true but Statement II is false ✓ Correct
DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Correct answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
The first statement is true and the second is false.
Interpersonal communication can indeed run either through a medium, such as a phone or a letter, or face to face without any medium, so it is both mediated and unmediated.
This flexibility of channel is a defining trait of person-to-person exchange.
The second statement says mass communication mostly need not be mediated, which reverses the truth.
Mass communication by its very nature reaches large, scattered audiences only through technological media such as press, radio and television.
It therefore cannot ordinarily operate without mediation.
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