Media bias in Pakistan existed across the largest newspapers throughout the country, and political forces shape this bias. Many media outlets enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the past governments, in turn receiving attention, funding, and prominence. These trends damaged Pakistan’s democracy and also put journalists in danger.
Meanwhile, political parties capitalize on this bias to influence public attitudes and further their own power. A biased media also prevents citizens from receiving information that might be essential to public wellbeing by filtering information through a lens that supports government interests first.
Finally, media bias plays an influencing role at the voting booth as propaganda can skew voter decisions and perceptions of what is true.
According to Dr. Nadeem-ul-Haque
Media is just a talking industry without any space for thought.
Newspapers are crowded with foreign policy, absurd opinions, and statements of politicians and governments, leaving hardly any space for economic, judicial issues and analytical work.
Media house owners are businessmen, using media houses to assist their business to grow.
Media is influenced by the Government through ads, lacking ideologies.
Media enterprises in Pakistan are not profitable but they still survive due to murky fundings.
Lack of research on structure of media; rating agencies and its methodology.In 2018 The Senate was informed on Wednesday that the PML-N government had given advertisements worth Rs15.74 billion to print and electronic media from 2013 to 2017.
The information was provided in response to a question by Senator Azam Khan Swati.
According to a news published in a leading daily ‘Two Pakistani journalists filing reports home from Washington are drawing their salaries from US State Department funding through a nonprofit intermediary, highlighting the sophisticated nature of America’s efforts to shape its image abroad, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
Neither of the two media organisations, Express News and Dunya News, discloses that their reporters are paid by the nonprofit America Abroad Media (AAM) on their websites or in the reports filed by their correspondents. Though the journalists have worked under the auspices of AAM since February, AAM only made their links to the news organisations known on their website, after being contacted by the Monitor.
While the US as always says “The United States Embassy provides funding and support to a broad range of Pakistani organisations, including media outlets, to facilitate professional development and capacity building activities,”
