Media Watch column is meant to offer commentary on the affairs of the media.
FEATUREDFrom an economics point of view, India has had only two prime ministers, really. Jawaharlal Nehru and Narasimha Rao. From an exclusively political point of view (which, yes, spills over into econo
FEATUREDPemra‘ s directive to private television channels not to air “indecent content” was bound to be taken apart. By the conservatives, because this was a too-little-too-late, and by the liberals, because of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/12/media-watch-defining-indecency/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe Press Information Department’’s twitter handle ( @pid_gov ) is, in effect, the official twitter account of the Government of Pakistan.One wonders why, then, those managing the account feel
FEATUREDHe’s on a roll, Faisal Vawda is. His spectacular fancy dress show at the Chinese consulate in Karachi after the terrorist attack there was barely out of the public’s memory that he<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/05/media-watch-at-least-he-didnt-take-out-his-gun/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDIn George Orwell’s chilling 1984, the totalitarian state of Oceania is in a state of perpetual war with either one of the two other, similarly fascist states called Eurasia and Eastasia. At<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/05/media-watch-we-were-never-at-war-with-eurasia/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThis is the worst times in terms of press censorship in the country’s recent history. Any discussion on the media has to be prefaced with this statement, till even this lukewarm assertion<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/29/media-watch-collapse/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDHe’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, the state minister for the interior. But perhaps a tool nonetheless.In the federal governments of most countries, the finance minister is deemed
FEATUREDNot a bad performance, over all He wasn’t as bad at the BBC’s Hard Talk as his boss, the current prime minister, on the same programme before the elections. And Asad Umar’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/15/happy-to-be-ashamed/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDSatire in the age of the CJP The reader might not have seen it yet. Because at the time of writing this, it had not yet gone viral. A Facebook event, scheduled<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/14/media-watch-not-not-the-dependent/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe idea behind having a more intimate presser with the prime minister is to give more time to each questioner. That, obviously, means fewer journalists. Fewer journalists, obviously, translates into the resentment<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/06/media-watch-the-chosen-few/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDJustice, goes the adage, should not only be done, but also seen to be done. The British, who were quite particular about appearances, went above and beyond reasonable semblances of impartiality. Stories<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/29/media-watch-appearances/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDAssistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Suhai Aziz Talpur, the police officer who actually led the operation against the terrorists who had attacked the Chinese consulate in Karachi, was a bit unders
