Credibility of news are lost
somewhere. Nobody bothers, what impact it leaves on the audience and not even
the audience bother, to search it by themselves. Causal news, get hype and
serious issues become scandal. This is,
what is been going on with Axact: IT Company issue, which is suspicious of
selling fake degrees in world through black-mailing. Ironically, world famous newspaper, named,
“New York Times”, disclosed, Axact business. According to NYT, they properly
investigated this news, after recruiting one of their employee in Axact. Hence,
they got access to all important documents and made a detailed report. Based on this, Interior minister Nisar Ali
Khan, has ordered to investigate this case.
News become gossip in no time. Rarely
in Pakistan get the credibility of news ever questioned. If ever so, the reply
would be, “I read it from a foreign news channel”. Life of media is also full of ambiguities;
they make their own fantasy world. They illustrate what they want to depict.
Local actors, who step in
Bollywood, are automatically declared nation pride, and who throw event
internationally considered proud moment. Actors become a think tank, people
started quoting their tweets. Political leaders, have started running universities,
after their name. Historical leaders,
became replaced with political leaders, in syllabus. People getting things
without efforts. People are clearly losing their originality.
You hardly read and hear about
cyber -crime, until and unless somebody hacks your account. We only heard about
PEMRA, who take action when something seriously blows out. Credibility of institutions,
are no longer available. Hereby, each and every one make their right to,
publish and telecast, handy information. We do note the audit of nonprofit organization
but we hardly witness the audit of channels. Surely, some audit is required for
issuing license. But afterwards, no one
bothers to audit. No yearly audit has
taken place of channels and newspapers. All of sudden, how are you seeing hundreds of
channels on your TV? What business they
were doing in past.
The point to note here is how we
could rely on any international report without proper authentication. Why there
is no international law for publicly disclosing other country news, without permission.
Journalism is profession, who owed to provide information and knowledge. I am
shocked, how journalism has changed to FIR
No doubt, in globalization era, media has
played greater role in shaping public opinion and making political decision.
But in a nutshell, a lot of unpacking is required on the Axact story. Until
then, we need to hold our horses, and need to break the chain of tweeting, posting
unauthentic news for fun. May be, we are becoming a non-credible nation. We
need to raise credibility of news and question ourselves that how we are declaring
artists and political leaders as our historical heroes.
