Trying to get an update on the news is one of the most painful things that one can do nowadays. The safest way is to read it on the web. As visually, most of our tv channels are following the worse style of reporting and practicing yellow journalism.
Yellow Journalism: "Yellow journalism, in short, is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. Moreover, the practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion"
ref: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/spanamer/yellow.htm
Just yesterday, Express News covered the story of a guy who bit off ear of his opponent outside the court room and repeatedly, the channel showed the bitten off part and the ear separately, that too clear, without any sort of censoring like boxes or smoky glass effect or anything. Continuously, every channel shows dead bodies, blown apart body parts and violence, without any shame or warning. Never do we see any warning before anything!! its horrible!
Even nudity wise, its way ahead of international channels. I was watching the CNN coverage of Veena Malik story and not even once did they show the whole picture, it is otherwise in our country.
This is desensitizing our people, we are old enough to still realize the difference and to condemn them but this media fever is most detrimental to our younger generation. For them, blood, gore, bodies and violence are normal things. They take them as they take any other usual thing in life like eating or breathing.
All day long, the focus is on the bullshit news, none of the them are talking about the real problems of the people or the system. They can talk about how sick Zardari is and when he will come back etc but they are not willing to ask the most important question that if the president of the country does not feel that his country's medical system is good for him, how is it good for its citizens.
This culture of violence and nudity and sensationalism and discussions on bullshit news needs to END! What is PEMRA doing? Some one needs to sue these bitches!
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