Q.5 Choose two news TV channels that provide opposite narratives of political scenarios. Write down a short report of how you notice the difference of opinion and what is your conclusion on the issues.
Course: Critical Thinking and Reflective Practices
Course Code 8611
Topics
- Two news TV channels provide opposite narratives of political scenarios
- What is your conclusion on this issues
- Different opinions on this issues
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Answer:
Some see the conflict between Geo and
ARY as a kind of proxy war for a larger struggle, involving the Pakistani powers
that be - over who really controls the country.
The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi
reports on a slightly complicated media story that reveals much about politics
and power in Pakistan. "The competition was rooted in how well the
channels themselves were performing ... but over time, it morphed into
something way more ugly, way more public," says Sadaf Khan, director of
programs, Media Matters for Democracy.
April 2014 marked a turning point in
the competition between the two channels. An attempt on the life of Geo News'
most prominent anchor, Hamid Mir, put the journalist and his channel on a
collision course with the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI. Mir had
reported extensively on the agency and said he was convinced it was behind the
attack.
This wasn't the first time the ISI
was accused of targeting a journalist. In 2011, investigative reporter Saleem
Shahzad was kidnapped and then found dead in northeast Pakistan. Shahzad had
documented three warnings from the ISI, letting him know his work had put him
on their radar. Now, three years later, the Mir case put the lingering issue of
alleged rogue operations of the ISI back in the headlines, and ARY waded into the
debate.
When ARY backed the ISI, it
ostensibly aligned itself with the intelligence community and the military -
the Pakistani establishment. Geo, on the other hand, was seen to be allied with
the elected government. "The Geo-ARY debacle was perceived to be a proxy
war between the establishment and the government of Pakistan," explains
Munizae Jahangir, senior anchor and executive producer, at AAJ Television.
ARY News made it personal by accusing
Geo TV owner Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman of taking money from Indian intelligence and
using it to defame and discredit Pakistan. Such accusations can get you killed
in Pakistan.
"One of the main allegations was
that we had run this campaign for peace between India and Pakistan, which was a
media-led campaign -The Times of India, and The Jang Group had come together.
This was completely an initiative that was funded entirely by ourselves - we
had absolutely no funding from any international organization, let alone
intelligence agencies, and, yet, continuously, documents were waved on the
screen," says Geo TV president Imran Aslam. "The editorial stance
taken by our channels on various issues are different ... However, if you work
on the behest of any government or you ally yourself with a government, then
your journalism is flawed and the Jang and Geo group's output are perfect
examples of this," says ARY News host Arshad Sharif.
ARY reported that Rahman had escaped
to Dubai with the active collusion of elements of the Pakistani government.
"Blasphemy accusations in Pakistan lead to vigilante justice," says
Khan. Thus Geo TV and the Jang Group took their case against ARY News to the
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and the Pakistani
courts. Those cases dragged on and are still pending.
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