Comments on: Breaking News Mania on T.V Channels

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:35:13 +0000

The word is : HYPNOTIC not my typing skills have changed it into - Sorry!

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:04 +0000

Visual media is supposd to have haptnotic effect on viewers and these “Boys” of lead the nation into addiction and we all know that hyponotized people can easily be maneuvered and tramatized.

A prfofessor of sociology at the University of Southern California by the name Barry Glassner has postulated that POLITICIANS, advertisers and crafty PR specialists can exploit the public through systematic exposure to fear and other arousal stimuli on television. Prof. Glassner, goes on to argues that there are three techniques that together make up “fearmongering”:

(1) repetition,
(2)making the irregular seem regular, and
(3) misdirection.

By using these narrative tools, anyone with a loud platform can ratchet up public anxieties and fears, distorting public discourse and reason. Talk about the “boys” on GEO, ARY, and the rest of the rot.

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:30:09 +0000

SAWJ & Mr Mohammed Khan - You both have rightly accused the media. Indeed they have “used”, no if I might add they have abused the power of media. Yes, indeed people like Kamran Khan are motivated by revenue generation for their masters (the seths who own the media) at the cost of public interest and common good.

By: Subhaan

Subhaan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:29:50 +0000

If the private media had been as diligent about watchdogging the NRO as they have been about watchdogging Musharraf, it’s very likely we wouldn’t have this crisis of lost promises right now. If the private media had spent as much time exposing the obvious flaws and grotesque inequalities of PPPP throughout the last some years as they’ve spent on PML-Q, we wouldn’t necessarily be staring into the maw of another depression.

By: SAWJ

SAWJ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:59:14 +0000

They’ll make you believe that, yes. If not for the beloved Geo and ARY and the rest of the crap, Pakistan would have been flourishing by now. Conditions deteriorated after 9th March when a crisis situation was deliberately created using the power of the media and presented as the action of ‘the people’ of Pakistan against the government.

By: Mohammed Khan

Mohammed Khan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:38:57 +0000

MY FREIND SAWJ … ALL “STORIES” HAVE BEEN TOLD OVER AND OVER . WE ARE SICK AND TRIED NOW …… … GRIEVES US TO SEE THAT ALL THE STORY TELLERS ARE BACK .. THANKS TO THE FREEDOM OF MEDIA … IS THIS WHAT FREEDOM IS ALL ABOUT ?

By: SAWJ

SAWJ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:18:17 +0000

We would never have had a judicial crisis in this country if Kamran Khan had not called it one on Geo and the other channels had not followed their lead. Why do they fail to tell the people that on 28th Nov 1997, Nawaz Sharif’s goons attacked the Supreme Court building and stoned it? Why didn’t Aitzaz Ahsan and the rest of his cronies lead a movement then? Why didn’t Iftikhar Chauhdry fight for the independence of judiciary then? Or is it because his job wasn’t on the line then? CJ Sajjad Ali Shah resigned in 1997 when Nawaz Sharif bribed his fellow judges. These same judges did not take oath under Musharraf’s first PCO but Iftikhar Chauhdry did. Now he has a problem taking oath under the second PCO?

By: Mohammed Khan

Mohammed Khan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:10:56 +0000

THE “SPECIAL” NEWS CHANNELS HAVE MADE A MOCKERY OUT OF THE FREEEDOM OF THE MEDIA. I AM SURE A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN WATCH THEM ANYMORE.

AS SOME ONE HAS RIGHTLY SAID THEY DONT REPORT .. THEY ACTUALLY “BREAK” THE NEWS……. NOT TO MENTION THE EXTRA LONG ADVERTISEMENTS (MINTING MONEY)..

By: Imran

Imran — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:29:01 +0000

If you are sensitive about ur country like many of us are then these channels are enough to make you sick.

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:01:24 +0000

Correction: Please read ONLY above not “ponly”