Role of media in Pakistan

What is “MEDIA”?

Media in simple

• Being in-between• A bridge that connects you to the world

Experiencing material world

Before Independence• The media in Pakistan dates back to pre-partition years

of British India, where a number of newspapers were established to promote a communalistic or partition agenda.

• newspaper Dawn, founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and first published in 1941, and The conservative newspaper, Nawa-i-waqt, established in 1940

• Pakistani print media came into existence with a mission to promulgate the idea of Pakistan, which was seen as the best national option for the Muslim minority in British India and as a form of self-defence against suppression from the Hindu majority.

Ayub Khan• The first step in introducing media laws in the

country was done by the then military ruler and President Ayub Khan who promulgated the Press and Publication Ordinance (PPO) in 1962.

• Ayub Khan nationalised large parts of the press and took over one of the two largest news agencies.

• Pakistan Radio and Television, which was established in 1964

Zia-ul-Haq

• More draconian additions were made to the PPO during the reign of General Zia-Ul-Haq in the 1980s.

• According to these new amendments, the publisher would be liable and prosecuted if a story was not to the liking of the administration even if it was factual and of national interest

Prevaiz Musharaf

• From 2002, under General Pervez Musharaf, the Pakistani media faced a decisive development that would lead to a boom in Pakistani electronic media and paved the way to it gaining political clout.

• New liberal media laws broke the state's monopoly on the electronic media.

• TV broadcasting and FM radio licenses were issued to private media outlets.

Now

• A system of regulation conducive to freedom of expression, pluralism and diversity of the media.

• Media as a platform for democratic discourse• Increase in the number of news channels• Advancement in social media

• Sense Of Responsibility.

• Responsible Part Of Nation.

• Responsible Citizen.

Awareness Of Rights

Enormous Role of Media

Awareness About Rights

Human Rights Violation

Availability of justice

• Check & Balance• Role In Exposing Corruption– The Pakistan Steel Mill Rs. 26 Billion

Scam.– PIA Corruption.– Rental Power Projects.– Hajj Corruption Cases.

• Voice Of Normal Citizen.

Faster Information Interchange

MEDIA AS AN INDUSTRY

Exploitation of freedom of speech

“Whoever has the power, controls the reins”

Arousing Aggression

• Promotion of aggression arousing factors instead of the whole picture.

• Continuous show of frustrating news that bears no fruit other than aggravating the situation further.

• Karachi riots, Young Doctor’s Association riot.• Talk shows increase aggression instead of

clearing issues being discussed.

Emphasis on crisis

Instead of Good

Work for the sake of profit

Promotion of any news without consideration of consequences to the country.

News for the sake of news. Promotion of irrelevant

events while ignoring the important events

Westernization

Onslaught of western media and culture.

Westernization but no modernization.

Promotion of foreign media instead of local media and talent

Contradiction

Contradictory behaviorsHuge differences in the approaches of print and

electronic media while doing basically the same thing.

Promotion of content which is highly criticized at some time but then

“Profits are what we work for” Pak – India conflicts yet promotion of their

movies in Pakistan. Approach regarding Pak – America relations