Media Owes It’s Freedom to Musharraf
By Gul Raiz • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics • 4 Comments •Whatever you say about President General (r) Pervez Musharraf, but you cannot refute the fact that the media gained an unprecedented freedom in his era. He was abused face to face by the belligerent anchors and journalists and he never tried to ban them.
Yes he did ban the channels and the anchorpersons, but only after nation got negatively sensationalized and people started to think that now Pakistan would collapse the next day. Just remember the tone of Hamid Mir, Dr. Shahid Masood, Kashif Abbassi, Mazhar Abbass, Nusrat Javed, Mushtaq Minhas and plethora of others and you would realize that they were all competing with each other to denounce Musharraf black and blue just to gain some more vistors for their channels.
More visitors mean more ads and more ads mean more revenue, and that is why these channels are there. They are not doing it voluntarily and they are not in the love of journalism. Just look at their revenues and you will be stunned. All the major newspapers have got their channels now and all of them strive to sensationalize the news as much as possible at every cost.
I have got a gut feeling that this new government would very soon start to taking measures which will aim at leashing media, and then Musharraf haters would cry out aloud “Teri Yaad Aai Teray Janay K Bad.”
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Hi,
he gave freedom to media as long it was NOT uncomfortable. You also donot want the new government to take credit for abolishing the LAW which gave the executive the power to control the media. As you have rightly pointed out the media works for the BUSINESS which owns it. Soon the public will know which one is owned by whom and who supports whom. That is the name of the game in democracy.
I personally feel that media does not show the responsibility that it should show while presenting some issues.
remember wen adnan kakakhail confronted musharaf?
that was just not possible atthe time wen our so called democratic feudals were running the country and i dont see that happening again!
its simply the latest trend to slander musharaf and everyone wants to hop onto the wagon to be in the crowd. of course, musharaf has done a lot to damage the country but we must realize that there were some really good decisions taken in his time…one o em being the freedom given to the media.
I believe that “damage to the country” was fed by the same media. And that same media made Saddam Husain, murderer of 1,65,000 Shiites and lakhs of Sunni Kurds, look like a hero when he was hanged.
“He doesn’t look unnerved…He appears calm…He is reciting Quranic verses…” - On Geo TV