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Great, Raza. This is really a good meaning piece!. I enjoyed a lot reading it. I agree much of what appears in our media is hardly inspiring. Best way would be to introduce specialized coverage by trained, experienced and techniclly well informed column writers/reporters.
This post is a good read, Raza. Although, I am not sure I agree entirely with your sentiments. Unfortunately, I cannot comment much on the Urdu press and so you may well be right about that. WRT the English press however, my suggestion to you would be: switch to The News. It may have some of what you are saying, but a lot less than Dawn. Dawn oped’s are too painful to read–it’s partially the editors–I have had personal experience with them cutting out half of what I have written such that the article is unrecognizable! The editors there seem to think their job is to make each article look the same stylistically and have a near-obsession with summarizing–even if it means changing facts around! The News, on the other hand, does give space to a lot of different people–and though we do have our share of former ambassadors, they do not dominate. Dawn, I have to say again, is terribly stale–only octogenarian voices–Cowasjee is about the best they can do and even he is only good about a quarter of the time–no more.
You know what would make an interesting piece–is a review of some of the TV personalities. I am nearly dying to recount my take on Shahid Masood, for instance…
Well who is telling the truth and who is lying depends on which side of the fence are you on. A retired PAF officer was much against Nusrat Javed, when he would write for The News, since he thought he was a sold out. Simple reason: Nusrat Javed didn’t subscribe to the views of the military.
Thank God!!
I thought it was only my own paranoid delusions that I felt the opinion sections were in icreasingly trashy.
Cutting to the chase:
Fatima Bhutto; being young & fresh doesnt necesarily make you an instant journalist. And for God’s sakes save us the ‘urdu versions’ translated ( read written ) by your (paid) columnists.
Mirza Ikhtiar Baig: being stinking rich does not make one an intellectual. But in a world where David Becham and Jordan have ‘authored’ three autiobiographies——ANYTHING is possible. Get a life- name your ghost writer.
Hussain Haqqani: When on earth will this guy realize he suffers from a grandiosity complex.
Like somone earlier pointed out one of the exceptionally few people still writing the truth and substance are M. P Bhandara, Sheerin Mazari to name a few.