Our Media... Good, Bad or What?

I hate Pakistan! What in Pakistan! Go abroad Pakistan main kuch nahin hai! Why didn't you go to australia you are such a fool! Pakistan wont survive the coming years! Pakistan is bad! No electricity, expensive food, expensive petrol! I hate Pakistan!

Does it sound familiar? I probably guess it does, right.

But I grew up in Pakistan, we never used to say or hear these things in the past. Everyone at our childhood was a die hard Pakistani. We used to say proudly I am a Pakistani. Everyone was willing to give his life for our beloved country. Things were good and there was no tension.

Where as now, every person is tense. No one seems calm, there is a feeling that like we belong to no place, we feel ashamed in saying that we are from Pakistan and everyone is cursing the country and tells everyone there is no future here.

What brought such a change to the mentality of people. What made people hate their country?

Alot many reasons can be associated to it but one of the reason which i would like to associate is media! All the news channels, newspaper, radio, internet... all these are responsible for this thinking. When do a country doesn't have problems! which country doesn't have problems? but people don't think like this about their country.

In the past there were problems in our country as well. There was dictatorship, there were other things as well but only media was not open to tell each and every small detail to people sometime even exaggerating it. The open media which is chaotic now, it just everyday pours lots of things about how bad our officials are, how bad our politicians are, how bad things are. So much that everyone just hate the country.

If some riot happened in karachi is it necessary that i know it? will it make a difference to the country? If some bomb blasted in Sadar rwp will it do any good each and every person of our country know about it? Will it do any good? Will it change the situation?
No it wont but it will affect our minds, minds of our people. It will create a sense of fear and disparity in us. And we will be tempted to leave our country to find peace somwhere else.

Its time for our officials i think to start censoring the media, I think our media should only tell the good things that are happening in our country. At this time we want high hopes for the people, sense of nationalism, integrity and love for our country. We need men who want to fight for their country willing to give their life for the country.

There were people going abroad, studying there settling there but as the media has made everyone fearful more and more people are leaving the country and people fear to get back and settle in the homeland. Businessmen don't want to invest here because of the sense of volatility.

We have excellent doctors, scientist, engineers, graphic designers and people of all profession working abroad. I just wish all of them come back to Pakistan and start working here. Yes, they will face a lot of problem but their names will live on as the people who brought the change. These foreign countries don't need us but we need them, where as our country need able men.



PS: I had to stop myself from writing alot of things else this post would have taken a long time to write. I would like a healthy discussion on this post