Re: Govt not to issue licence to Geo English
^ I agree with you partially. Yellow journalism is destructive, but if we give government the power to regulate media, then we lose the whole concept of independence of media.
In most civilized societies, journalism is self-monitored, through a privately funded Central Council that hears all cases of media irregularities. Plus, there are market forces at work, meaning if a media channel is so biased that it is irritating people, their viewers will decline and the channel will go down simply by losing money. In US, for example, pretty much all media has some or the other political bias (Fox is right, NBC is left etc), but government does not bear upon them. Of course, in Pakistan, media independance is all new, so right now people may be going a bit crazy (aapay se bahar) and it will take a while for everything to settle down and come to some kind of happy medium. That will be a real mature form of media.
Pakistan can learn from the experiences of other countries and should set up media self-regulatory organizations to govern such things. Unfortunately, personal egos and lack of planning is preventing people from seeing the big picture.