Hassan Nisar HATES Jamat-e-Islami - Part 2

Shrinking space for debate http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2011-weekly/nos-09-01-2011/spr.htm#4 By Adnan Rehmat Mass media is making an eager lurch towards the right, riding the crest of an ideological battle that is giving disproportionate coverage to forces in the country that are extra-parliamentary and have no mandate and accountability The script was not supposed to go like this. When the airwaves were opened up for private ownership in Pakistan in 2002, the general expectation was that the country would become more pluralistic, more tolerant. The hope was that from a national narrative scripted by a security state that has traditionally promoted paranoia for its own benefit through a tightly controlled information regime, Pakistan would make a shift from information darkness to information openness. This, it was expected, would bring people and their welfare, as articulated by themselves rather than by the self-appointed establishment, at the centre of national policy and daily business of politics. But a confounding thing has happened: in the last eight years, a discernible shift of the mainstream broadcast media, particularly TV channels, has gone to firmly right of centre. The events of recent weeks, leading up to the ghastly murder of a progressive public figure — Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer — in the backdrop of a media debate that has promoted extremist views, seem to indicate Pakistan's mass media is making an eager lurch even further to the right, riding on the crest of an ideological battle that is giving disproportionate coverage to forces in the country that are extra-parliamentary and who have no mandate and no accountability. Freer media or fear media?
Here's the paradox: the result of eight years of independent, pluralistic media is a supposedly democratic society that is more radicalised and more violent than ever. Was there something wrong with the medium? Or wrong with the message? It would seem it is both, if the mandate was to promote a more open and tolerant society but which has turned out to be the opposite. How did it come to this?

Traditionally, the media agenda in Pakistan has been dictated by the deep state through its terrestrial monopoly over audiences via Pakistan Television and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation until independent TV channels started sprouting in the last few years. There are now about 100 of them with a third of them being current affairs, 24/7 news channels; half of which are in vernacular languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, Seraiki and Balochi.

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[786yousufkhan]

Khuda ki qasam Hassan Nisar Sahab Ap ko Pakistan Ka Prime Minister hona chahe or All Pakistani Hates Jamiat-e-Islami he not Islami Jamaat Ok.

[BRITISHALQAIDA]

Hassan nisar hates them /? so do i ..!!! eliminate mullahs from pakistan for its better future.

[zulfitareen]

@alic88

let us hope people pay attention to his advice. we need more people like hasan nissar.

[alic88]

@zulfitareen You have taken my words out of my mouth. The day something happens to him God forbid I dont think I will be able to survive in this world. I will lose hope. I hope he finds strength everyday to educate us on our ground realities

[KARACHISUCH]

Jamiat hai kuto ki nasal.

[zulfitareen]

i have rarely seen a more brave man than hasan nissar.

he is the lion of pakistan.

he is the voice of reason and common sense.

he is the only man who understands the ills of pakistan.

he is taking the risk of his life to speak out.

he is the only reasonable man in the sea of illiterate masses.

the only man who has not been contaminated by the poison of religion.

i salute his courage and his wisdom.

i wish him a very long and healthy life so he continues to fight the madness of religion.

[IrfanPadhiar]

zinda baad jamiat

[SarmadTanveer]

sb hi kutty ki tarah parh gay qaisar bhi ko hatta k anchor sb b

[SarmadTanveer]

jamiat k mukhalif comments parhain aur phir qaisar shareef bhi ki bat ka style daikhain yaheen sy pata chal jaye ga k kon haq pr hy...>>>!!!!

[SarmadTanveer]

great qaisar bhai great

[SarmadTanveer]

baat hi krny ni dy raha beech mn point maar raha hy chaacha hasan