To Hell !!!! with media freedom
These days I am starting to feel that I am living in a world where I am being fooled everyday and I have no option but to get fooled by everything this age has to offer.
My facebook/twitter account is being monitored to the extent that anyone can write @anees_avis on Google and know what and when I am tweeting, sites can tell how much followers and unfollowers I am getting: not to mention, my facebook activity is as open to the intelligence agencies, as to me.
Now with a third world rebel like me facing this helplessly, I wonder if revolutionary and leftist organizations like Occupy Wall street are fooling themselves or the world, writing against the whole system called ‘Capitalism’
You must be thinking that why all of a sudden I am wondering about being a ‘rebel’ and monitored by intelligence agencies around the world.
Because, Someone tried to fool me again..
The thing is, yesterday I had to attend a seminar organized by Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology and the speaker (whose name I will like to avoid as he was a guest), a Deutsche Welle employee addressed students of Mass Communication about Propaganda,Bias and Framing.
The man(I will call him DW Guy) wanted Karachiites to understand the risk of a nuclear disaster in case they build a nuclear energy plant here, Abused Hitler, Fascism and quoted Noam Chomsky at will.
His definition of Fascism in his own words was “When capitalists and government join hands
I asked speaker if a journalist working for any media group can stand against his capitalist employer if he finds his/her practices exploitative.
“A Journalist should play his own part” pat came the reply.
I said, “Man what part, you quoted Noam Chomsky and the writer’s book “History is a weapon” says Education system is producing only industrial workers who cannot stand against capitalism, resaon: they don’t have the required acumen. So how can you expect that such workers will ever find enough courage to stand against their owners in the media.”
His reply was again that such time would come.
I was forcefully asked to sit down then but his answers showed that either he lives in a fool’s world or wanted his naive listeners to live in one.
Now my men Hitler was better than you guys, as he told about writers in media that they are bent upon making his nation a nation of cowards.
You guys can praise to please your employers but the thing is you cannot write a word against them and their interests and only a genuis like Hitler can speak truth and impose it (haters can read his book “Mein Kampf”)
Now my DW guy, the answer I expected was
“IF I HAVE A STORY AGAINST MY EMPLOYER IN MEDIA , I WILL GIVE IT TO ONE OF MY JOURNO FRIENDS and LET HIM LEAK IT”
And
Nazism is comsidered “FASCISM” and Nazism is when a self made man says “Man must bow to higher Gods than money and fame” and a nation bows.
And your free media group (DW) can praise George Bush but does not have the permission to praise Hitler (German law forbids it).
Last thing, if your definition of Fascism is “When capitalists and government join hands to exploit masses, it is Fascism” Capitalists are Fascists.
By the way , above mentioned definition is of “Capitalism”
To Hell!!! with media freedom.
The writer Muhammad Anees is a News Tribe staffer and tweets at @anees_avis
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