Media Watch column is meant to offer commentary on the affairs of the media.
FEATUREDA phone call has been the subject of feverish debate on the mainstream media. The call from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to newly-inaugurated PM Imran Khan, felicitating the latter upon<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/24/media-watch-he-said-he-said/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATURED. . . but they’re not poles apart either You would have seen it by now. Trevor Noah, the South African comedian who heads Comedy Central’s Daily Show after being handpicked for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/17/media-watch-imran-khan-is-no-trump/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThere is something alluring about dams that is quite firmly affixed on our national imagination. I learnt at school that Tarbela was the largest earth-filled dam in the world much, much before I learn
FEATUREDThere is always a war of attrition between politicians and their security detail. The latter want too much, the former want as little as possible. That is the truth. It might not<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/08/media-watch-imran-khans-no-security-detail/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATURED“I don’t kick a man when he’s down. I kick a man when he’s not looking.” Hawkeye, M*A*S*H* Yes, schadenfreude is a base emotion. Yes, we should all be above it. Yes,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/media-watch-quit-horsing-around/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDSatire, local practitioners of the craft bemoan, dies this side of the Suez. That is a defeatist attitude, of course. There has been plenty of tanz in these parts, much appreciated and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/04/media-watch-the-jokes-on-you/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Though you might not guess as much by looking at him, the PTI’s honey-loving, rabble-rousing Ali Amin Gandapur, nominated for the murder of not one but two PTI members by the latter’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/04/media-watch-womens-clothes/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATURED“If you don’t stick to your values when they are being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.” – Jon Stewart. For there to be more transparency and access to the media in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/27/media-watch-on-truncated-tallies/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDIt is said that the man who made the most money in the California Gold Rush was a gentleman by the name of Levi Stauss. But Strauss wasn’t a gold prospector. He<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/24/media-watch-your-message-here/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe problem here, of course, is that one might be misinterpreting him. Maybe, just maybe, Ayaz Amir is being sarcastic in his column in Dunya. But one can’t really give him that benefit of the doubt
It is grainy footage from, presumably, a CCTV camera. It’s a quiet street. Some cars, some trees and some kids playing. Two men come over on a motorbike, swerve and discreetly pick up one of the chi
FEATUREDThe punditry’s ideas, frozen in time...You might have seen it. It was footage made from a cell-phone camera. Given the rapid improvements in phone cameras, the footage isn’t even grainy
