Friday, January 21, 2011

Monkeys got the match-box


Monkeys got the match-box and now they can burn any thing that they want. In fact this example very much resembles the Anchors of Pakistani TV channels. Of course exceptions are there, so except a couple of competent hosts/anchors, all others are terribly misguiding the nation by managing and leading the debates on very very sensitive issues. They have their agendas and loyalties. And they are major cause of increasing the gaps among different groups of society.
Recently this reality became very much obvious when majority of anchors/hosts were busy in ill prepared programs on blasphemous law issues. On the other hand some are constantly busy in criticizing every political act either on Government or opposition side. Criticism for the sake of criticism.
Hardly one can find a program that serves a single of following
  • Leading the masses towards better political political sense
  • Increasing general knowledge of students/learners
  • Unveiling the corruption cases
  • Backing any harmony effort on political scenario
Majority of programs serve any of following purposes
  • Raising pessimism among the nation
  • Sabotage any effort/chance of political harmony
  • Presenting the evils of society as heroes
  • Highlighting the views of irrelevant ones on a topic
  • Posing too much consciousness on freedom of expression
So what to do?
Solution may be that never watch any current affairs program with total dependence on host/anchor. Watch it with critical mind and take care that host/anchor is not imposing his own views. Also keep in mind that the any guest person commenting on an issue is capable, relevant and worthy of that particular topic.