Re: Does Pakistani journalist deserve freedom of press?
Saleem bhai this is the age of internet. No longer can the crooks (read Pakistani military dictators and politicians) hide their wrongdoings from the public. Press freedom or not, every news is online within a few minutes to hours of it happening. Gone are the days when people used to sit down and go thru a Sunday or Friday newspaper inside out or watch the khabarnama as the main source of news. Now everything is online. Even the daily newspapers are not that upto date because the news contained in them is atleast 10-12 hours old. I get most of my daily news on the net. These days I hardly ever listen or watch news on TV or browse a broadsheet as I might have done say 10 years ago. Musharraf and his cronies couldn't lie to the public about the May 12 mayhem mainly because the events and the real culprits behind this atrocity are all on the web.
The media's job is to give you news. They never claim that their voice is the be all and end all. How you interpret the story is solely up to you based on your level of intelligence, education and experiences in life. That said the media has a responsibility to verify news first before they publish it in a newspaper or announce on radio/TV