Last night was one of many times Geo showed a village where aid of any sort has yet to arrive. They show women and kids crying asking for help and one wonders that who in their right mind would get access to such a remote area and not take some food and clothing with them for the possible victims. Is carrying few blankets and supplies too much of a task for Geo? or is getting the news story all they care about? still in competition with ARY? whada hell is wrong with you, Geo that you’re take your cameras up there, air their plight and not do anything about it.
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hmmmm…
now thats sumthin that makes my blood boil…
its disgusting 
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GEO always goes to extremes with its graphic reports
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I bet they do take as much as they can with them but run out real quick the second they land there. I'm sure they're not that ignorant...
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Very sad. I wonder if they have a reasonable excuse for not carrying food and other needed supplies.
This reminds me, while watching the ARY Live Appeal transmission, some gentleman called and complained how all the rescue work is being done in the major cities and/or where there's media coverage. According to him, other areas where aid is needed are not being looked after.
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I wonder how many of us would have donated if all of the reporters, camera men and other staff from all TV channels, media etc would have carried a blanket each and some food instead of Cameras and other equipments and were unable to report ground realities to us??
I accept that they have been PRETTY HARD on govt during all that time and they are covering less positives than negatives but then, we do have JEE HAZOOR TV (PTV) that can take care of that.
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I have been saying it for the past week. Geo seems to be capitalizing on the tragedy. They keep on showing the areas where people are dying of hunger but I have yet to see them handing out food to the hungry. I have been asking WHY for a while now.
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CNN, BBC, ITN have been doing the same. If you followed their new reports, then it seemed they travelled to that area with just that ONE purpose. But also to show that the government was not doing anything, but the foreign team from UK did all the relief work.
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at least this shows the truth abt the government.. it doesn’t do anything to help those people.. the only thing they did was walk a few rounds around that builing in islamabad.. ( dont remember the name… sumfin wid margalla..) juz to show that “we have been there..”
it really makes me sick..
Y dont they put money in medical care instead of other useless things..makes me so mad..
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^ oh lord, you are so clueless. Gov't is doing a comendable job for the most part. Mobilizing 25,000 troops within less than a week and intiating the relief work to maximum capacity isn't "khala jee ka ghar." Margala tower didnt' even get that much coverage. Suffice to say that hats off to the Pakistani gov't, Army and the people for their efforts and relief work, and the sacrfices the Pak army jawans have made warna we have seen big nations with up to par technology and resources fail miserably handling natural disasters.
What i'm pointing out here is a total inhuman behavior from our CNN wannabe. How in the hell would you go through all the trouble of locating people where they have recieved no aid, watch them cry, starve and live out in the open and not have the common sense, courtesy and professionalism of handing out some food packages, some blankets and letting them know the aid is on it's way, that we're spreading the word. Letting em also know that for god's sakes start traveling down and stop "hanging out" up there. They'll make lot of people's lives, including theirs, a little more easy.
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^-- Ditto :k:
We were also discussing the exact same thing yeterday. These TV stations and their correspontends reach those hard to reach places. And then they report like a hero ke here see, we have reached this palce but the government and the Army have not.
Well, someone tell them that mobilising a whole battalion is a whole different thing than walking on foot with a camera or even driving and reaching in a place like that. And also if they get there then at least take some supplies for the people who are waiting for the aid.
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u know what they also love to show those tv stations.. that people r 'looting' the jeeps n trucks wid the stuff for the victims..
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How do you know that they didn't bring some food and supplies with them, whatever they could manage, to distribute?
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^-- coz otherwise they would surely show it on tv.
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Another thing that is extremely annoying, what's the deal with sticking microphones in some starved amputated crying kid's face, asking him what happend to his arm?? That's just inhuman.
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You cant put blame on GOVT. its not Govt. duty alone to provide those people the relief goods. I salute the Pakistan Army for whatever they are doing. These people work restlessly during and after crises. And all i hear from the civilians that army eats everything.. Whatever army has done so far, is beyond our reach. And they fight on the border to save Pakistan.. Idher se farigh hon gay to border jain gay.
I agree media is reaching every where and yes playing a big role to let us know which area is still unattended. But you cant say ke idher army nahin pohnchi.. and they ask the GEO people agar aap aa saktay hain army kion nahin aaye... Yaar, no one asks them agar aap army se pehlay aa gaey hain, aap kia le ke aye hain... again putting blame on army. Aray, the army posted in those area is also suffering, their jawans are also dead. and if they are taking time reaching the far flung areas, they are not on their honeymoon.. They are working and getting exhausted.. They are humans for gods sake.
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I guess they are trying to show the govts efforts to reach the victims ..
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I SECOND THAT! I respect pakis whatever they are doing to help the victims… looking at the neighbour’s relief effort (hindustan) i hear, according to their own news channel, that its a been a huge struggle.. and people of indian kashmir swearing at the people of india for not doing anything…
on a second note.. i respect the paki channels for showing so much coverage of the quake.. as opposed to the indian channels showing movies … movies.. and more movies!.. during tsunami.. all the indian channels on dish network showed “jassi jaise koi nahin…, MAX deewana BANA de.. etc.” dude for god’s sake, even playboy showed the 9/11 event!
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You shouldn’t assume that ARY/GEO are not doing whatever they can behind the camera. Just cause they aren’t showing a news reporter handing out blankets on camera doesn’t mean that it is not happening behind the scenes and there is nobody from these stations donating goods or doing whatever they can.
Skhan, I thought the same thing about sticking a camera and mic into the face of a crying mother whose baby died in her arms during the earthquake. It does seem inhumane … but tell me, if they didn’t show such horrific scenes, do you really think we (people across the world and within Pakistan) would be moved to the point of tears? Do you really think we (the people) would be donating the amount of money we have been to help these people through their suffering and running out to buy medicines/blankets/tents to help protect them?
If they didn’t show these scenes, I doubt any of us would see the kind of response from the international Paksitani community we are seeing right now.
Another thing, for all those people beating on the government and army for not doing anything, they have repeatedly shown images of soldiers carrying goods with their own hands and WALKING them up the mountains or loading up mules to climb the mountains with supplies to reach the villages since there are NO ROADS to get to the victims. Just cause a news reporter’s car can manage to get up the road to a village doesn’t mean that the same road will be able to handle the weight of a dozen truck full of supplies.
The weather is absolutely terrible, roads are blocked, after shocks are just making things worse and on top of that, pilots are flying helicopters at NIGHT when they aren’t supposed to cause of the danger levels just to help people and carry the injured back to hospitals. Stop knocking them down. 
Quite frankly, I’m glad they are showing images of how shop keepers from local cities (Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad) have gone to the disaster zone and are looting blankets and taking them back to their stores and selling them. People are becoming aware of the chorbaazi and corruption that is going on by CIVILIANS and are starting to do whatever they can to make sure the supplies stay put for the victims.