Media for Awareness

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Media For Awareness

By Sehrish Khan Durrani

Media is a tool to aware people media in any country has a significant role to play in the country’s success. Either it could help the country achieve it objectives by highlighting the problems of its citizens or it could spoil everything by diverting the attention of people from important issues towards insignificant issues. The role of Pakistani media has been in question for a long time. The first time media was given full freedom and independence was during the time of former President Parvez Musharaf. How would Mr Musharaf have known that the same media who he allowed to practice full freedom of expression would one day turn its back against him and propagate to remove him from power? Such is the power of media that it was able to remove a President from his post by propagating against him. At times the Pakistani media just like media in other countries includes sensationalism in its news. The already frightened nation of the country gets even more frightened when bomb blast are sensationalized by showing dead bodies of people. Everyone in the country has their own personal interests and so is the case for Pakistani.

Media spread awareness & up-to date people. It gives lots information , people pick the new world wide within the second. Media is of two kinds Print media and Electronic media. In print media news papers, press, magazines are involve from which people get education language approach, curiosity for creativity and come to know about the world issues in one hour. First printing press is in invented by Guntenberg press. He printed 180 copies in Europe. Other media as electronic media in which tv radio internet are present from which people acquaint with in a second about the world problems. The role of media also deserve appreciation for covering the natural disasters which have taken place in the country. When the disasters earthquake hit the northern areas of the country in 2005, the...