Hassan Nisar Abuses Pakistani Nation

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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[Djarian2000]

Hasan Nisar is a great thinker. Karachi salutes him!!

[MrDoctorkhan]

Hassan nisar is the Great.sacha insaan hai.

[ASIF222]

Hasan Nisar is my Hero!

[Usama712]

100% sahi Bol raha hai ! Im with Hasan Nisar

[UNDERTAKERTHEPHENOM]

Hassan Nisar is eating sugar, wheat and all those things he have said,,,he is rich and why would he worry about the necessities of life.......that lousy Hypocrite Bastard

[hassan77759]

he said right,,v r truely that nation what he said,,

[Mr37irfan]

slut you sir jee Hassan Nisar sahab ham hain haqeqaat main ham sab baygghariat ho chokay hain.saab baatoo ki ak baath maghar jab ap nay kaha k woo jo road per jalaibeyaa aur pakoraay pakha rha hain woo b kaal utar nay pay tulaa hain

[Mr37irfan]

slut you sir jee Hassan Nisar sahab ham hain haqeqaat main ham sab baygghariat ho chokay hain.

[stylenextt]

hasan nisar mean paralyze brain

[turried]

Beghairat nation/awaam deserve this and more of what Hasan Nisar is saying. Pichlay 63 salon say mar rahay hain magar utthaingay nahi...hadd ho gai hai...kharray ho, in politicians ki gardanay pakro...useless people!