Speakers Thursday criticised certain TV channels for spreading gloomy atmosphere in the society through their talk shows. They urged investors to stop funding these TV programmes by way of advertisements. At an event, which the Public Relations Committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) had organized to celebrate Pakistan Day, with respect to media role in the society, the speakers criticised TV shows for spreading gloom about the country's future.
Senior journalist Mehmood Sham termed media as 'frightening'. He said that media transcending into electronic shape brought scaring issues to people. Now, the innocent people are frightened from media similar to the extent they are from the repressing police. People have lost their trust in media for its grisly character, he added. A profession, which involved gentlemen in the past, is lost to advertisement and brought about decivilization of the society with the use of poor language generously and destruction to the journalistic ethics. He asked the businessmen community to end sponsoring TV shows that are just about incivility and poor morals.
The veteran observed that TV programmes are also causing brain-drain by spreading gloom in the minds of people about Pakistan's future. He said youth are widely indoctrinated through talk-shows that their future is in danger in this country. He said millions of rupees sponsorships are responsible for such shows to thrive on.
Zia-ul-Islam Zuberi, a senior public relations officer, reminded that Pakistan was created only as Islamic state and not a secular country. He asked people to stop creating doubts in the minds of Pakistanis about the founding of the homeland, as it is as clear-worded as it was before independence.
He said Muslims of India did not need to struggle for a secular country. Their endeavors and sacrifices were just for a nation that will lead its life through exercising Islamic tenets. About the media role, he said, before partition journalists paid huge price and rendered sacrifices for bringing truth to light to defy the British colonial repression.
There was no rating race in media while journalism was free of sponsorship thus worked and reported independently with honesty, he said, adding that the sense of responsibility widely existed with the newsmen before creation of Pakistan. Senior analyst and author Aga Masood termed the media role as 'divided' in two visible blocs, the one supporting the government. "It's a money game," he added.
He regretted lack of regulatory authority to govern the media in line with the rules and regulations, saying the Pemra is an ineffective body. He said media is spreading gloom and doubts in the minds of the nation. He paid rich tributes to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the students of Aligarh University for their role in the creation of Pakistan.
He said Muslims in India are underdog with ever-growing Hindu dominance and repression. Muslims are leading a worst life than that of Hindu lower caste in India. MQM Senator Khushbakht Shujaat said Pakistan's creation began from the war of independence in 1857. She said the society should build and strengthen educational institutions if it really wants to develop Pakistan.
Vice President of FPCCI, Tariq Haleem, President, Petroleum Dealers Association of Pakistan, Abdul Sami Khan and President of FPCCI's committee hosting the event, Shujaat Ali Baig and leading industrialist S M Munir highlighted the background of Pakistan Resolution of 1940 and struggle of people against the British Raj.
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