Media-torship
It has been almost a day yet those voices are still ringing in my ears. I had been up all day, listening to the channels reporting the terrible news,changing one after the another, searching for a voice of sanity in this chaos,yet I couldn’t find a single one. Dozens of channels yet I still couldn’t find a single voice that would fill the void ripped inside me.
It was during the Juma Prayer when I first heard about the blast. I went home. Turned on the TV and saw the horrifying details of what happened.
Bodies of children; living breathing people, were scorched and burned. A sight no Human can endure. Yet what I heard next mortified me with horror.
The anchor’s voice was quivering with excitement,overlaying the footage of burned bodies and claiming that this is the exclusive footage brought to the viewers before any other.
I could not believe my ears. i changed the channel
click,
More Violence and another voice claiming their triumph over gaining this footage.
click
Burning image of a car, people running. Yet same excitement emanating from the very voice
I felt nauseous
I knew about our media, I have read and formulated enough to keep myself at peace; knowing that they feed on people’s sentiments. But this was too much, this was an abomination. A violation of the very basic sense of morality and sanctity of Humanity.
I sat back, closed my room. And thought who was creating more violence, who was creating more terror, who is reaching more out people?.Who is paralyzing people with more fear. And the reality was horrifying as much as it was evident. Terrorist kill and we spread the terror.
In our eagerness to get the cake of the story we forget what people are going through. What would the relatives of all those injured and deceased must be thinking? Their misery being cashed into ratings and competition for viewship. Every time an anchor tells that this footage is exclusive is like telling all those people that their tragedy is being cashed right now.
People may call me an antagonist but I know and understand that media channels, like everything else, have to feed themselves to exist, Viewer ship is what that keep them afloat. But there must be morality, some sensibility, some hint of grievance and mourning for all the loss of life.
I do not mean for them to stop reporting or broadcasting these images. All I want and request is a change in attitude. Attitude from the tone of their voice to the words they are uttering. The least they can do is to act that they are more grieved and sad on all this loss of life rather than excited on getting there ratings being up. I don’t care if they even pretend to act like their grieved, after all they are the actors on the screen. It may Seem small to ask, but I don’t find even that on TV now.
Please remember that It is we , the viewers that can shape the policy, that can show them a little sense, Because we are their milking cows. We are the reason they are so filthy rich. Make them hear your voice. Say NO to sensationalism, NO to spreading terror and NO to despair.
Let them know that we are not just another commodity waiting to be cashed. We value and praise them when they do better, but we can also criticize them for their failings, And this is not something to be ignored. They are our voice, they should portray our sentiments, our misery , our grievances and our Hope for the better future.
I stand with all the people who lost their lives, I stand with all their relatives, and I know that their sacrifice will not be in vain , We will have a better Pakistan, we will root out terror, and we will be triumphed. InshAllah
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Pity in those channels. I wish i could implement a scrict law against all these kinda things, to have proper ban on channels, if they indulge in competetion, rather than being grevied at the moment of sorrows.
shame..
This piece was a liefjkacet that saved me from drowning.
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