Re: Pakistan's uncanny ability to produce a new arrest ...
I edited out my comment; I didn't see you had already responded.
I'll elaborate my point: After 9/11, US govt. has used the US media to sell its policies to the public unchecked. Media acquiesced to govt. talking points about eye-rack lest the journalists were excluded from White House access, briefings, or labelled un-patriotic. Journalists like Judy Miller planted false news reports in papers like New York Times that made a case for Bush admins mobile labs, wmds vis-a-vis eye-rack. There were others on talk shows and political commentary shows that were doing the bidding of the govt. Using fear tactics, Bush admin converted the US media into its PA system. It was only after the devastation of hurricane Katrina did the US journalists started showing some backbone and openly questioned and criticized the Bush administration.
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Free would be good. But no media is genuinely free. Paki media should at least show Pakistan in a positive light, but some journalists are totally anti Pakistani whilst writing from offices in Islamabad.
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Reporting unsavory news items about a country is not being 'anti-' country. If those journalists are telling outright lies and fabricating stories to cast the nation in a negative light, they should be taken to task.