Denying individuals their rights of freedom of expression while demanding your own is highly hypocritical.
LONDON: “The hypocritical media” by George Fulton (September 22) contains long overdue insight. Individuals who run media groups can alter the national narrative. They can pull emotional strings to elicit responses they deem worthy of their own interests. As an entity that demands complete freedom as the bastion of accountability and freedom of expression one has to question who is it accountable to? Is it the advertisers? Is it the cable operators? Or the viewers?
It’s become increasingly predictable that when anyone raises any issue remotely critical of the media, rather than debating the issue head on media organisations hide behind calls of their freedom of expression. However, denying individuals their rights of freedom of expression while demanding your own is highly hypocritical.
Syed Nadir El-Edroos
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2010.
