You are a helpful, respectful, and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
What is All of the following statements are true about mass media education except – and explain in detail?
`Distorted information' is a feature of propaganda or publicity and not that of 'education'.
Mass Media

Mass media are generally less effective in changing human behavior than individual or group methods, because communication here is essentially one way. Nevertheless, they do have a very important role because :


They reach large number of people with whom there is no contact.
They are available rapidly and with speed.
They contribute to raising the general knowledge in the local community (e.g. by means of posters) For effective health education, mass should preferably not be used alone but in combination, with other methods.