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The sensitivities of journalists are often thought of as having been dulled through constant exposure to alarming news.This is something that is bound to happen in any profession and it’s not a

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A common refrain from within the conservative commentariat during the TLP’s protests is that the country’s liberati do not call out the “anti-state” speeches of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) but elaborately<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/media-watch-tlp-and-ptm/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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He’s good. Shahzeb Khanzada is now arguably the best news show host in the country. If you want to watch an informed account of national issues, his is the program to tune<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/media-watch-not-nab-dgs-finest-hour/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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It’s a lot of things coming together, merging into one big elephant-in-the-room. Over the last two years, the increase in the suppression of the free press has been palpable. Yes, the last<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/19/media-watch-hard-times/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Pakistani pundits don’t think they’re important, they think they know they are important. They’re not, of course. All it would take for them to bite the dust is for the political class<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/18/media-watch-tiny-men-all-around/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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The Supreme Court in India did away with a 158-year-old law that criminalised a man having an affair with a married woman. There is a difficulty in getting data on how many<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/12/media-watch-no-talk-of-sex-or-spooks/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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No, not his finest hour. Farrukh Saleem, the newly-appointed government spokesperson for economic issues, had a tough time fielding questions from the ever-sharp, ever-unyielding Shahzaib Khanzada. Seeing the to-and-fro between the two,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/12/media-watch-this-guy-seriously/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Look at the image, now gone viral, carefully. A couple of senior citizens, listening intently to the Kavanaugh hearings. Brett Kavanaugh, of course, is a jurist nominated to the Supreme Court by<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/28/media-watch-digital-is-the-future/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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The video itself has a WhatsApp logo, but most saw it on Facebook. G News, a Gujranwala collective, apparently, had shared it there. Though one really doesn’t know whether the subject was ac

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‘Oh, don’t stop…..you have a nice voice.Like a bulbul.’‘In a china-china-shop,’From A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Ah, the human voice lifted in song! What splen

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Of course. Of course our man Waj Bro is a ladies’ man. Of course he is. What woman could possibly resist the charms of this Greek diety? This man of words whose<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/30/media-watch-wajbro-and-the-ladies/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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“A lie can travel halfway across the world, while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” Though always true, the above statement (ironically enough, falsely attributed to Mark Twain) has never<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/24/media-watch-dawn-of-a-scary-era/" title="Read more" >...</a>