Re: Breaking News: Paramilitary Police clash with Lal Mosque idiots!
Exactly. In US the only people the hostage takers would have been allowed to talk to would be officials. TV channels would not be interviewing them live. The channels typically comply with official requests and help them.
Pakistani news media are very naive; they are playing in the hands of these criminals and giving them a platform further emboldening them. They are undermining the efforts of the State to negotiate with these criminals and effect a peaceful surrender. If these criminals have a platform to voice their position, they have no incentive to surrender; they will continue to spread their propaganda and weave their myth and lore for future idiots.
Pakistani news media have too much freedom.