Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin786| march on a comment
Babar Ayaz
The media considers itself as the watchdog of a society, but the scuffle is that this watchdog is free to bite anybody in self-interest without anybody to chasten it. At least in Pakistan where the media is going through a phase of newfound freedom in excitement, the internal and inter acresal checks and balances have not developed in the media. This is more dead on target around the electronic media, which is just a decade old.
The raise up Council of Pakistan (PCP) for the print media has been reluctantly created but is without the required infrastructure and competency to check some of the outrageous violations of media ethical codes. Just one and only(a) example of the dangerous violation is that appeals to kill Salmaan Taseer or another(prenominal) alleged blasphemers by a cleric of Peshawar and some dealer with offers of hefty head money have been published by many papers. More recently, Akbar Bugtis son did the same and the newspapers obligate him with headlines. this instant luring people to kill anybody whether the victim is guilty or not as well as publishing it is a criminal offence. But no court has taken watch of this glaring violation of law.
It is like publishing an advertisement in the newspapers job and career section that an assassinator is wanted against a hefty reward. What are we, a nation of lawless people where anybody can hire killers with the cooperation of the newspapers? Though on that point is a PEMRA and PBA laid down code of ethics, nobody cares about it.
The demand for the law to take its course against anybody who violates it is the right of every(prenominal) citizen. But offering head money by a private individual for killing an alleged accused, a la the Iranian offer for killing Salman Rushdie, is not even medieval.
Now just take the issue of Maya Khans break of the day programme on Samaa TV, which was rightly criticised by the influential gracious society and other individuals mostly on...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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