Army chief or soap opera?

November 30, 2013 16:12

Was it the advent of the messiah the nation awaited or something less spectacular? From the media frenzy surrounding the appointment of the new army chief it indeed seemed as if a fresh revelation on Mount Sinai was at hand.

This was the media and the glum faces of commentators and analysts who pass for evening entertainment in this country (then we say this is getting to be a sick societywith such entertainment, why shouldnt it be a sick society?) What about the tomato, onion and potato-hit public of Pakistan? With more pressing matters to attend to, was it really bothered who the next army chief was going to be?

Gen Musharraf is about to be tried for treason. If there was any justice in the world he would be tried for the freedom he gave the Pakistani media, not that anyone in the media would acknowledge this. The fiction that the media holds close to its heart is that it struggled mightily for the space it has. Pray, where is that sacred spot where all that blood was spilled for the freedom which allowed private television channels to proliferate?

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