5/7 MQM Ulema Convention - TV channel blackout - April 19, 2009

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TV channels covered Altaf Hussain's speech (standard political coverage), but missed an important opportunity to FOR ONCE show people criticizing the Tehreek-e-Taliban and identifying the factors that create such groups in Pakistan.

This convention went on for many hours, and should have been covered live for a few hours at least, so that the public get to HEAR at least SOMEONE say that "killing people is wrong".

The time the channels spend in covering the sayings of Sufi Mohammed, Maulana Fazlullah and Baitullah Mehsud is considerable.

That the TV channels did not find anything interesting in a conference of Ulema OPPOSED to those groups, is inexcusable.


It would also have injected new ideas into the minds of the public that went BEYOND the "Musharraf/U.S./Taliban" confines established by Hamid Mir (a pro-Taliban anchor at Geo TV) and Talat Hussain (a wishy washy anchor at AAJ TV who advocated action against Lal Masjid to establish "writ of government" one day, and acted like he never said it the next day).

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