Monday, November 16, 2009

How much media promotes our religious values

Media is something which is used for communication with people and in order to reach those audience which are not reachable through any other way and in order to address message to the people. Media Vehicle which are working currently in Pakistan include TV’S ,Radio, Newspaper, Magazines etc But most of the media vehicle which is use by most people include newspaper and Tv. As we know that visual and image impacts more on people psychologically. It is very common concept that ever thing can be used by two ways one is for positive purpose and second is for negative. To operate for positive purpose we always have some limits. if we cross those limits we comes out to be in the context of negativity. So currently we have to check the accountability of Pakistani media where it stand out? Is it working according to those limits which leads towards positive actions. But before that we have to keep in mind what are those limits in which we should remain in order to work in every field. And Who is one who sets those limits. what if we don’t follow those limits.
Social ,Ethical and religious factors are following which Pakistani media should keep in mind.


1) Every Information should be based on truth and should not be moral less.
2) Every thing should be according to Islam and should not cross those limits which ALLAH has set in Quran and Hadiha.




Does our media play a positive and healthy role?


This question is asked very frequently during our discussions. It is also observed that our media has hijacked the real issues of our society and reported on fabricated issues. Another aspect of our electronic media is to criticize too much against the country. In the Mumbai attack our media played a negative role. The media highlighted human rights violations in the country but failed in playing its due role in opinion building and educating the masses.

It is a proven universal opinion that communities always have won all their battles through the weapons of their social and cultural values. But Pakistani electronic media is trying to live under the death of social and cultural values as the majority of Pakistani TV Channels have a focused policy to copy the Indian TV theories in order to grab more viewer ship for their financial interests. What are we doing? Where do we stand? And where are we going? Our electronic media has not determined its role. Every channel starts their Programme with a talk segment and most of the time the discussion are boring and uninformative. It is the primary responsibility of our media to impose a self-censorship which is basically to say nothing against Pakistan and its national security institutions. It seems that owners of electronic media channels are greedy and they are not resisting on unethical advertisements. It is true that a free media is essential for the development of a country. But it is also essential to safe guard the cultural and established norms and values of our society. It is also true that the government wants to use the media for its ulterior motives but it is the responsibility of the media persons to safeguard its rights for a free and objective reporting. It is time to decide whether Pakistan is supposed to be an Islamic, social welfare state for the people of Pakistan or a National Security State for the opportunist. Is Islam allows dramas movies which have no moral results .most of the students waste their time on watching movies and dramas. how this country can be developed country where people are materialistic and believes on impossible objectives.

8 comments:

  1. Striking a balance between the corporate environment of the media industry and our religious values is the need of the hour. I agree to what you said Mahnaz.

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  2. We need some patriotism here. :)

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  3. This matter actually holds different for the different types of media available to us. For instance, on the internet it is much easier to make an effort to spread cultural awareness and raise religious concerns of the public; but when it comes to newspapers, such sources need to be devoted more to keeping the public updated about what's going around in the world.

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  4. yes it is very true that the media has destroyed our religious values and i think its not fault of media we should avoid from looking lusting products

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  5. media is a way of communication yes it is tru but its true that they should remain their limits and we should all obey the religious values .we are forgetting our religious values its is becoa of our media and as well its our own fault

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  6. i agree with this article oue media should stop presenting lusting things and it will be if we will stop demaning the products of media

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  7. I totally agree with and the role of media in Pakistan is one of the serious issues that must be done in a positive way. Thank you for sharing such a nice post.

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  8. well in my opinion media is spreading negativity more. Religious programs showed on a separate channel which is not a way to promote religious values.

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