Media Watch column is meant to offer commentary on the affairs of the media.
FEATUREDThe nation and its news media (broadcast as well as the supposedly more cerebral print) have infamously short memories. A shockwave of sorts had hit the airwaves a couple of years ago, when the incide
FEATUREDMuch humour going around about the PTI’s choices for members of cabinet. They’ve selected a finance minister who doesn’t understand the economy, and an information minister who doesn’t...know
FEATUREDNot a day goes by when one doesn’t read of crimes against women in the country, but it is only the more bizarre ones (of those reported in the first place) that initiate public debate that l
FEATUREDIt was a bad year, 2018 was, as far as freedom of speech in the news media was concerned. A pivot that continues well into the current year and one that shows no signs of changing anytime soon.Thi
FEATUREDIt’s gone viral, the Kingtox insect repellent advertisement has. The ad ticks all the boxes. It’s funny. It’s relevant to the product at hand. It stays in your min
FEATUREDWe were never at war with Eurasia. We were always at war with Eurasia. Such were the uncontested narratives of the Ministry of Truth in 1984, with no one, least of all the patriotic c
FEATUREDThere has been an air of despondency among the liberal democrats of Pakistan during the ongoing tension with India. No, it is not because they love India and resent the upper hand that (till the pub
FEATUREDHe’ll be driven from the airport to the PM House by the PM himself. He’s going to be met by only the apex sliver within top tier within the highest echelon within the government. The air force
FEATUREDYou might have seen it. It has become a common practice at press conferences of government ministers and, in at least one case, that of the opposition as well.Members of the press wait for the s
FEATUREDSlavoj Zizek narrates an interesting joke from the former German Democratic Republic. A worker gets a job all the way in Siberia. He is aware that any and all correspondence of his will be read by the
FEATUREDHe was never Pakistani journalism’s best foot forward, but Arif Hameed Bhatti’s most recent virality is because he has hit a new low. The clip of him interviewing one of the poor little girls who
FEATUREDIt’s a double-whammy that the Pakistani news media is facing these days. There is the financial crunch, which was predicted by many since long. And then, of course, there is the issue of press censo
