Re: Musicians speak on the current situation
^ like what?
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"The media had an opportunity to be responsible but the media had let go of all their aesthetics," says Ali Hamza and adds, **"taali do haaton sey bajti hai (it takes two hands to clap). Everyone had a role to play in what has happened today, the judiciary and the media." **Of course President Musharraf's role in the way he dealt with these pillars of democracy is a non-issue for musicians who believe that news channels are responsible for what has happened.
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Rohail Hyatt says, "Now that all the news channels are off air, it suddenly hits you how far we had come and how Musharraf had given freedom. This is a glimmer of how things were back in the day when we were growing up. What is the 24 hours of negativity? Are there no good things that have happened or are happening? This doomsday scenario that was being played out by the media all the time was irresponsible. Media, news channels are a platform and it shapes the views of the people, the nation." *Rohail holds news channels responsible for the news mix and projecting that everything is going downhill. *
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Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan agrees with him. "To a certain extent media did cross a line. There are limits to everything. The Lal Masjid footage shouldn't have been shown on television because it really destroyed our image in the world, the image we have been struggling to change for so long."
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And other musicians like Abbas Ali Khan present a view which is rather mind boggling. **"To some extent media is responsible Negativity has been in the air for the last few months," he recalls. **"Back in the old days, even when the political situation was bad, people were living in some peace because there was little propaganda on television. Now people are living in constant fear."
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Fuzon guitarist **Shallum Xavier says: "The emergency is not fair on the music industry. Music is the most consistent form of entertainment in Pakistan. Even before the emergency, the political scenario had become a soap opera and the nation had been tuning in to see what was developing on a daily basis. The news channels had suddenly become entertainment channels whereas the entertainment industry had been sidelined."
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^like mushy is great mushy is awesome mushy is right. All that blabbering. You know.
I couldn;t find any such thing here :p