the living dead! -by asad ejaz
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posted by Dr Uzma Ali | July 28, 2012 | In Featured , Original Articles
The Living Dead! -by Asad Ejaz
Who recalls that the dead cannot be turned alive? It swiftly happens with
Pakistani media in charge. Local media houses have resorted to making a
mockery of investigative journalism which meekly calls for a slight hassle of
travelling, reaching out to stories and unveiling the true nature of them but
unfortunately enough, with the kind of queer rat-race our media houses
have leaped into, is it worth making all the futile effort? Well not in case
where eulogy is meted out to those who report ‘first’ rather than to ones
who report ‘authentic’-Perfect Practice, isn’t it? Huh! Preposterous………
The same ‘news-break-first’ culture took us to Kohistan last month, and
would take us ‘better’ destinations, if practices such as this, don’t really pull
off an end in sight.
5 innocent girls were reported to have been lynched by the dagger of some
unidentified local fundamentalist. They were accused of dancing ‘publicly’.
The news got big flavour when the girls popped up on national television to
confirm the version of their own deaths, the very next day, wow—that
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makes it real savoury! Eh! A group of protestants take to the streets of
Egypt—their placards read “Hillary, we are not Pakistan”—not related?
Well! if this not related, nothing is, this recounts the altitude our national
image has plummeted down to, amidst such stability crises, false media
hype such as this, would come down as a tremble to a rubble. And this is
what it came down like –Phew! News of the world, Uk’s largest selling
newspaper closed down on charges of ‘corruption’ and on suspicion of
‘conspiring to intercept communications’. The chief operating officer
Murdoch stated that the paper was “in the business of holding others to
account, it failed when it came to itself.”
Corruption and conspiring to intercept communications, Aren’t these two
‘scruples’ rehearsed by our very own vibrant media every single hour in
Pakistan? Deploying bugs, intruding personal meetings, hacking telephone
calls, so on and so forth. But who solicits self- accountability-who chooses
to step down–None! More television channels than the number of centuries
Sachin Tendulkar has registered and one feeble PEMRA, unjust—isn’t it
pouring more water than the poor flask can hold? Or was it Kohistan, girls
killed for dancing, don’t bother going, ought to be a true thing, right? Cross
with Mr. Riaz buying villas to our celebrated heroes who frame public
opinion everyday, 8-10ish, cross with our revered Luqman-Bukhari duo
inter-mingling in ear-splitting voices off-screen, cross with Aamir liaquat
denying his ‘local’, street-befitting linguistic skills caught on national
television, cross with Maya khan evolving as the ‘only’ saviour of the
‘degenerated’ youth of Pakistan, cross with, ad infinitum.
It is certainly about time that the screws are tightened–So that the media
sensitizes to issues of national integrity and learns its own lesson-the
lesson of ethics, the lesson of responsibility, that it has boastfully tutored for
at least the stretch of a decade, and it is certainly about time that ‘selective
accountability’ is put to a screeching halt and media houses are made
answerable for ill-reporting and misinformation that spreads like wildfire.
From Ibn Taymiyyah to Daish
(ISIS/ISIL) – by Sidq Miqal
Haq aka “anti-establishment”
Stooge – Syed Riaz Al-Malik
am involved with the management of kidney
dialysis patients but outside...
ak ghar Din Meray pass Jub bhi pasy aay to
me aap ko wapis kar dun ga Aue...
picasso: you write the name of only some
organization that show sunni msluk and
present them in quite negative...
faheem: read
faheem: raed
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posted by Dr Uzma Ali | July 28, 2012 | In Featured , Original Articles
The Living Dead! -by Asad Ejaz
Who recalls that the dead cannot be turned alive? It swiftly happens with
Pakistani media in charge. Local media houses have resorted to making a
mockery of investigative journalism which meekly calls for a slight hassle of
travelling, reaching out to stories and unveiling the true nature of them but
unfortunately enough, with the kind of queer rat-race our media houses
have leaped into, is it worth making all the futile effort? Well not in case
where eulogy is meted out to those who report ‘first’ rather than to ones
who report ‘authentic’-Perfect Practice, isn’t it? Huh! Preposterous………
The same ‘news-break-first’ culture took us to Kohistan last month, and
would take us ‘better’ destinations, if practices such as this, don’t really pull
off an end in sight.
5 innocent girls were reported to have been lynched by the dagger of some
unidentified local fundamentalist. They were accused of dancing ‘publicly’.
The news got big flavour when the girls popped up on national television to
confirm the version of their own deaths, the very next day, wow—that
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massacre in Peshawar – Syed
–
Home Original Humour & Satire Newspaper Articles Economy & Education LUBP Library About
http://lubpak.com/archives/173030 2/4
makes it real savoury! Eh! A group of protestants take to the streets of
Egypt—their placards read “Hillary, we are not Pakistan”—not related?
Well! if this not related, nothing is, this recounts the altitude our national
image has plummeted down to, amidst such stability crises, false media
hype such as this, would come down as a tremble to a rubble. And this is
what it came down like –Phew! News of the world, Uk’s largest selling
newspaper closed down on charges of ‘corruption’ and on suspicion of
‘conspiring to intercept communications’. The chief operating officer
Murdoch stated that the paper was “in the business of holding others to
account, it failed when it came to itself.”
Corruption and conspiring to intercept communications, Aren’t these two
‘scruples’ rehearsed by our very own vibrant media every single hour in
Pakistan? Deploying bugs, intruding personal meetings, hacking telephone
calls, so on and so forth. But who solicits self- accountability-who chooses
to step down–None! More television channels than the number of centuries
Sachin Tendulkar has registered and one feeble PEMRA, unjust—isn’t it
pouring more water than the poor flask can hold? Or was it Kohistan, girls
killed for dancing, don’t bother going, ought to be a true thing, right? Cross
with Mr. Riaz buying villas to our celebrated heroes who frame public
opinion everyday, 8-10ish, cross with our revered Luqman-Bukhari duo
inter-mingling in ear-splitting voices off-screen, cross with Aamir liaquat
denying his ‘local’, street-befitting linguistic skills caught on national
television, cross with Maya khan evolving as the ‘only’ saviour of the
‘degenerated’ youth of Pakistan, cross with, ad infinitum.
It is certainly about time that the screws are tightened–So that the media
sensitizes to issues of national integrity and learns its own lesson-the
lesson of ethics, the lesson of responsibility, that it has boastfully tutored for
at least the stretch of a decade, and it is certainly about time that ‘selective
accountability’ is put to a screeching halt and media houses are made
answerable for ill-reporting and misinformation that spreads like wildfire.
From Ibn Taymiyyah to Daish
(ISIS/ISIL) – by Sidq Miqal
Haq aka “anti-establishment”
Stooge – Syed Riaz Al-Malik
am involved with the management of kidney
dialysis patients but outside...
ak ghar Din Meray pass Jub bhi pasy aay to
me aap ko wapis kar dun ga Aue...
picasso: you write the name of only some
organization that show sunni msluk and
present them in quite negative...
faheem: read
faheem: raed
http://lubpak.com/archives/173030 3/4
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political activist.