Media of Pakistan has taken a drastic change in shape after 2001 when there had been a single state-owned channel and a few newspapers working strongly under the censorship board and rigid policies on broadcasting. The silhouette of media today in Pakistan is stronger than ever before, after the necessary amendments in the censorship rules to lift curbs on its freedom during the last decade. Now, as they say, Pakistani media is free to disseminate information without facing any barriers; yet, as a logical Pakistani I still question the influence of such unprecedented freedom and the benefits our journalists and media personnel are deriving from it.

The media that should have been the mirror of society is now, taking full or if rightly said, no benefit of the freedom of expression, focused on sensationalism stirring sensitivity and criticism. A country where the real issues are socio-economic, where the masses of people are living in terrible destitution, where there is a declining status of institutions with unaffordable higher education system and abnormal price escalation, the media is directed and so very much busy in broadcasting and honoring the birth of the royal child or the marital separation of some elite political leader and the knot tying of some infamous cricketer. Where we are leading the young minds and what influences we are leaving for the international world?