Pakistani Media:Spreading Awareness or Vulgarity?
By Danyhasan • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 7 CommentsSince the last few months there have been intense debates on whether the electronic media is becoming a monster or not. Certain people are propogating the opinion that the media is playing a destructive role for the society. They claim that in the days of dictatorship it calls for democracy and later tries to destabilise democratically elected governments. These people are following their own agenda and a free media is the only obstacle in their way, because it is the media only which can change people’s perspectives on certain things. They are trying to silence the media through their propoganda.
One good thing Musharraf did was that he liberalised the electronic media. Many news and entertainment channels came up during his era. Later he himself looked for ways to curb the media when it started pointing his wrong doings and ill planned actions. It was the media which helped CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry in mobilising people in his favour. The final result was February 18th elections which was the last blow to Musharraf.
While people talk about the media becoming a monster they tend to ignore another aspect of the electronic media’s growth. They conveniently forget the fact that private entertainment channels are slowly killing our culture. They copy Indian soap operas to increase viewership. Girls have stopped wearing full clothes. Exposing arms, bare skin is no more a no go area, infact they try to expose themselves as much as they can. Girls have forgotten modesty. Isn’t this the biggest crime the media has committed? Valentines day, basant etc are being imposed on us as a part of our culture as if we would be lost without them. Dramas are promoting infidelity, treachery. The concept of family entertainment has totally vanished. There was a time when we saw dramas like dasht, dhuwan, alpha bravo charlie tc. on PTV. Watching such fine productions now seems to be a dream. In the name of entertainment private channels are promoting a westernised society thus killing our own identity. People are becoming more materialistic and family values are being forgotten.
Looking at the above perspective of media, I believe that it definitely needs to be controlled but not because it exposes the wrong doings of our democratically elected leaders.
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i think you are right to some extent but as far as the case of girls dress is concerned ,i think it is the responsibility of parents and girls own selves,a girl posing her self naked i think know very well what can be the result of it. if our girls have become so brave that they can go naked in public that’s their own case not ours.
Danyhasan,
As Yaseen said the clothes wore by girls are their own choice and has little to do with media or not. The media shows things that the people in general wants to see. The dramas that you mentioned might have been there a few years back may be 15 - 20 yrs back, at that time there were very limited options to view for people at later and the people who prepared them had little access to information and culture from other parts of the world.
Regarding the media playing foul games in democracy is a bad thing. They should not be so much critical and analytical of government acts every now and then. But it is not their fault as well, people in Pakistan like to talk too much about politics and anything and everything that government does. They are showing those things only.
The problem wit people in Pakistan is that they are not ready to wait and let the process of democracy take roots. Once this is done all the problems faced by them will be solved, still it will not be swift actions but a slow and moderate change. In democracy things cant happen fast and it takes time for changes to take effect.
Blaming media for their take on politics and criticizing the government is a right thing but for the culture thing it is still with the people of the community and country who have to take care of that. You might be seeing sad, ugly, and disturbing things in your daily life but once you are back home and want to relax, you will not want to see these things as they are not relaxing.
All the things that happen or are shown to you are not fiction they are taken from the same society were you live. We think that movies and serials are all fiction. True to a extent but at the end the inspiration comes from the society itself.
Media is owned by somebody. so it shows their view pooint.When it is free means anyone can start his media and show his opinions.PPP has dawn,PML(N),ANP,MQM etc must be having their media. It is for ordinary thinking people to see through their game and form their own opiniion. But Dictators rarely have free media as one can see in Saudi arabia,Egypt,African and south american dictatorships.This suited Americans who supported dictatorships like Marcos,Zia,Saudi kings,Mubarak etc.
some one can refuse me in the shape of our comments,that some one is believe independant media and some one condemn it.those who take a side of independant media are having opposite mind to controle some media culture.Like vugarity and some steps which in illegal in our Sharia.
on the other hand some people believe condemn some media aspacts like politicaly one sided.
i don’t think that those are believe independancy of media.Because first thing is prohibited in Islame and Second one is opposite in modren world.
i asked to whome Pakistani Muslim that please whats your comments and perseption in independancy of media.
Mr.Abdul Manan, do you reside in SWAT? From your tone about Sharia, one can guess that you are terribly under the influence of Taliban.
pakistani Media is controlled Completely by Iranian Jews….
print, Electronic, Internet all forms of Media….
be careful next time u open you TV
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