Journalist Talat Hussain Slams Pakistani Media

The famous journalist of Pakistan Talat Hussain
slamming the role played by the local media
has said that journalism looks to lose its true
essence. Media which is being considered a
watch dog of the society and a platform for
the voice of people is devoted to raise the
happenings of other countries especially that
of the neighboring country, India. In his
writing piece he talked about the features, the
news stories covered on various female
actresses of India in which every details related
to their personal lives is there.
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Criticizing he said that knowing the single
details of Indian film industry has been made
easy by the Pakistani media who covers all the
entertainment facts from Bollywood.
Expressing failure of the journalists to neglect
the serious masses issue happening globally
with Muslims in Syria, Egypt, Libya he writes
that the western media have given importance
to the Muslims ethics and norms as the France
media covered story of the Muslim woman
who refused to remove her veil from face in
the court despite the displeasure shown by the
court officials. ‘Unfortunately western media
pens about over issues but we being Muslims
and local people are less bothered to consider
it as our responsibility’. A France based woman
has however shown us that following her
religion even at the cost of violating
democracy remains her priority, the journalist
said.
Talat Hussain suggested that in order to
provide the readers with entertainment news
and good features, stories of rich people,
success stories of celebrities, known
businessmen and others could be published.
‘Our media looks to sell Indian culture and
norms by making part of its daily stories’.
He called it mere an illusion of fake characters
and creating fantasy around the Pakistani
people, a tactic used by Indians through their
news and other mediums.
Talat questioned about the local media and its
role. He pointed out that many news papers
had used ordinary headlines over the killing of
the Pakistani soldier by the Indian forces,
some even have not used word ‘martyr’ for the
deceased. It is disheartening to see such
practices he stated.