Media coverage
THE Pakistani media’s tragic flaw is that rather than cover the story, it is too often part of the story. So it is again with regards to media coverage of…
Media’s neglect
PAKISTAN stands at the edge of a climate precipice, yet if you flip through most headlines, you might think the country’s biggest woes revolve around power struggles and political theatrics.…
Subtracting fake news from social media
In an age where truth seems negotiable and subject to multiple interpretations, lies and fake news travel at lightning speed. Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals a…
Disgraced media
LAST week, I wrote a piece on Western media’s coverage of the war in Gaza for Prism on the Dawn website. I re-read part of Edward Said’s 1981 book Covering…
Media giants’ tattered credibility
THE credibility of global media organisations such as the BBC, CNN, SkyNews and even progressive newspapers such as the UK’s Guardian appears to be in tatters as their editorial policies…
Western media and the war
THE brazen one-sided account of the conflict justifying Israeli aggression against Palestinians living in the occupied Gaza Strip has exposed the mainstream Western media’s claims of objectivity in reporting. Truth…
Crisis of mainstream media
SOMEONE who entered the world of print and bore witness to the era of the electronic medium in Pakistan is a strange creature. Few of the ‘printies’ adapt easily to…
Media state of mind
I WANTED to note two closures in the US media as both provide many lessons for us to consider in Pakistan. One is Washington Post’s media columnist Margaret Sullivan’s departure…
A media for all
I’M a huge advocate for public media and a big reason for that is the UK’s Channel 4 model. Earlier this month, however, the UK government said it planned to…
Modi and the media
For someone who never held a single press conference in his two terms in prime ministerial office and did not present himself for an interview with any bona fide journalist,…
