When you turn on the TV and watch TSS or Capital Talk or Merey Mutabiq you will see some pretty outrageous stuff. But who is responsible for this? Is it the TV producers? The talk show hosts themselves? Or could it, dear reader, be someone a little bit closer to our own television sets? Might it even be us, the viewers that are responsible for this madness?
One goal of this website is to provide fair analysis of media content. The few of us who write for the site strive not to take political allegiances or promote a particular point of view. Rather, we hope that by providing a different perspective (including presenting facts!) to that expressed in the mass media, we will encourage more discussion in our communities about the issues that we face as a nation.
Yes, we have taken a strident stand against incorrect and irresponsible journalism. But we also want to promote a broader discussion about the role that media plays in our thinking (or lack of thinking!). To assist us reaching this end, we provide this post as a discussion point for debate in comments. As always, we are interested to hear your opinions.
Back to our original question, though: Recently, talk show host himself Mr. Farrukh Khan Pitafi wrote in The Daily Times that the real culprit in the increase in poor TV content is none other than ourselves, the dear viewers of the TV programmes. His argument is presented below. What do you think? Let us know in comments, please.
