The journalists fraternity in Pakistan will have least ratio of individuals who would qualify for heavens. In a country where all institutes are generally corrupt and non-professional journalism is just on another level. Police, judiciary, bureaucracy, education, doctors and engineers all institutes are filled with shameless individuals. But according to a classical saying, "the worst injustice with one's profession is that of a teacher with his teaching". Looks obvious as other professionals might destroy one nation but corrupt teacher destroys generations to come. Same goes for journalists. A journalist is a teacher and a guide, but when such a guide has sold itself for money, favor, agenda, personal associations, they become the scum of the society. Here are some categories that you can divide the journalist in Pakistan into.
1. Yellow journalist: whose purpose of life is to dedicate themselves for defending whoever is in power. Or who is likelier to assume power soon. They jump ships every 5 years and invariably are the supporters of Dictator's regimes. These are the Naji's and the Saroop's etc.
2. Lafafa journalists: Very easy to recognize. Their words are as irrational and as funny as watching a Bollywood film where every disconnected element somehow has a connection to what they want to infer. It doesn't take much of intellect to read between the lines what they write and smell the money/favors poured in their pen as ink. They sound desperate, indecent and obvious examples of prejudiced writers comparing of the good in one against the bad in other. They never do a good vs good analysis. Their rhetoric is based on good vs bad. These are the Qasmi's , the Siddiqui's and the Chaudhry's. Feel free to look up for examples.
4. Self defined agenda based journalists: The fulcrum of their work is to manipulate public opinions in according to their personalized objectives. For instance a certain class of journalists are first anti-establishment individuals and then professional journalists. The anti-establishment, anti-military agenda is so strong that any reporting they do, any columns they write or any show they anchor, everything has a prologue. Generals murdabaad! Another example of self defined agenda journalist is a certain Javed whose Anti-MQM sentiments means anybody who is silent on MQM should be in the line of fire. They think either you are with them, or against them.
5. Politically affiliated columnist: Their rhetoric is based on defending a certain party based on its policies, vision and slogans. The thing that makes them different from the Lafafa journalist is that they attempt to do a good vs good or bad vs bad argument. They criticize their parties too for the wrong it does. They are not blind supporters nor too hidden. Creditable to a certain extent.
6. Shameless journalists: Whatever they do, they can simply walk out of that. Nothing can dent their shamelessness even if caught on camera. The conspiracy theorist and the self proclaimed pundits. There are plenty of them out there. A certain Luqman, Bukhari etc etc are typical examples. They are spiritual followers of saints such as "App nain Mirza Ghalib dekhi hay".
6. The doubters: Always in doubt. They are in total disbelief. You can generally spot them by watching them being too pessimistic about everything. However they are relatively unbiased and respected. These are the Hussain's and Abbasi's.
7. The dual face journalists. They say something that has one meaning but a different message. They would tell you, for instance, there are 10 bad guys in a 280 persons team A inferring how poor this team is. At the same time they will shut their eyes on team B that has 150 bad guys in 280. Not that they want to help Team B. they don't . Instead they hypocritically want Team C to benefit from the damage done to Team A. They are generically hypocrites, they say what they don't mean and they don't mean what they say. A certain Safi is a classic example of that category.
"Gala tou ghont dya ahl-e-madrasa nain tera,
Kahan se ayay sada la ilaha ilal'Allaha"
by Rizwan Mumtaz
1. Yellow journalist: whose purpose of life is to dedicate themselves for defending whoever is in power. Or who is likelier to assume power soon. They jump ships every 5 years and invariably are the supporters of Dictator's regimes. These are the Naji's and the Saroop's etc.
2. Lafafa journalists: Very easy to recognize. Their words are as irrational and as funny as watching a Bollywood film where every disconnected element somehow has a connection to what they want to infer. It doesn't take much of intellect to read between the lines what they write and smell the money/favors poured in their pen as ink. They sound desperate, indecent and obvious examples of prejudiced writers comparing of the good in one against the bad in other. They never do a good vs good analysis. Their rhetoric is based on good vs bad. These are the Qasmi's , the Siddiqui's and the Chaudhry's. Feel free to look up for examples.
4. Self defined agenda based journalists: The fulcrum of their work is to manipulate public opinions in according to their personalized objectives. For instance a certain class of journalists are first anti-establishment individuals and then professional journalists. The anti-establishment, anti-military agenda is so strong that any reporting they do, any columns they write or any show they anchor, everything has a prologue. Generals murdabaad! Another example of self defined agenda journalist is a certain Javed whose Anti-MQM sentiments means anybody who is silent on MQM should be in the line of fire. They think either you are with them, or against them.
5. Politically affiliated columnist: Their rhetoric is based on defending a certain party based on its policies, vision and slogans. The thing that makes them different from the Lafafa journalist is that they attempt to do a good vs good or bad vs bad argument. They criticize their parties too for the wrong it does. They are not blind supporters nor too hidden. Creditable to a certain extent.
6. Shameless journalists: Whatever they do, they can simply walk out of that. Nothing can dent their shamelessness even if caught on camera. The conspiracy theorist and the self proclaimed pundits. There are plenty of them out there. A certain Luqman, Bukhari etc etc are typical examples. They are spiritual followers of saints such as "App nain Mirza Ghalib dekhi hay".
6. The doubters: Always in doubt. They are in total disbelief. You can generally spot them by watching them being too pessimistic about everything. However they are relatively unbiased and respected. These are the Hussain's and Abbasi's.
7. The dual face journalists. They say something that has one meaning but a different message. They would tell you, for instance, there are 10 bad guys in a 280 persons team A inferring how poor this team is. At the same time they will shut their eyes on team B that has 150 bad guys in 280. Not that they want to help Team B. they don't . Instead they hypocritically want Team C to benefit from the damage done to Team A. They are generically hypocrites, they say what they don't mean and they don't mean what they say. A certain Safi is a classic example of that category.
"Gala tou ghont dya ahl-e-madrasa nain tera,
Kahan se ayay sada la ilaha ilal'Allaha"
by Rizwan Mumtaz
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