What The U.S. News Media Isn’t Saying About Pakistan

[dexter]

Floods, economic collapse, mass protests, political tumult, military crackdowns, an imprisoned former Prime Minister and disappeared journalists – there's a lot going on in Pakistan, but U.S. news media is quiet. Despite Pakistan being a staple in U.S. international news coverage, recent events – which also implicate the U.S. government as having interfered in the country’s democratic processes – have garnered little coverage on the gravity of the current political situation in Pakistan which has seen the country’s military exert extreme control and repression. What’s going on? Backspace’s Sana Saeed looks at how the relationship between institutions of power and influence - media and foreign policy - works to manufacture which stories we care about and how.

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Floods, economic collapse, mass protests, political tumult, military crackdowns, an imprisoned former Prime Minister and disappeared journalists – there's a lot going on in Pakistan, but U.S. news media is quiet. Despite Pakistan being a staple in U.S. international news coverage, recent events – which also implicate the U.S. government as having interfered in the country’s democratic processes – have garnered little coverage on the gravity of the current political situation in Pakistan which has seen the country’s military exert extreme control and repression. What’s going on? Backspace’s Sana Saeed looks at how the relationship between institutions of power and influence - media and foreign policy - works to manufacture which stories we care about and how.

And who cares what USA government thinks? We are not important to them, so we don't care about USA. lol.

 

[nahtanbob]

Floods, economic collapse, mass protests, political tumult, military crackdowns, an imprisoned former Prime Minister and disappeared journalists – there's a lot going on in Pakistan, but U.S. news media is quiet. Despite Pakistan being a staple in U.S. international news coverage, recent events – which also implicate the U.S. government as having interfered in the country’s democratic processes – have garnered little coverage on the gravity of the current political situation in Pakistan which has seen the country’s military exert extreme control and repression. What’s going on? Backspace’s Sana Saeed looks at how the relationship between institutions of power and influence - media and foreign policy - works to manufacture which stories we care about and how.

military has been running the show for the past 20+ years. nothing has changed except the actual actors

 

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Floods, economic collapse, mass protests, political tumult, military crackdowns, an imprisoned former Prime Minister and disappeared journalists – there's a lot going on in Pakistan, but U.S. news media is quiet. Despite Pakistan being a staple in U.S. international news coverage, recent events – which also implicate the U.S. government as having interfered in the country’s democratic processes – have garnered little coverage on the gravity of the current political situation in Pakistan which has seen the country’s military exert extreme control and repression. What’s going on? Backspace’s Sana Saeed looks at how the relationship between institutions of power and influence - media and foreign policy - works to manufacture which stories we care about and how.

When there are no direct issues between U.S. and Pakistan, as in the period 2001-2021, the coverage Pakistan merits in U.S. news media is not very different, in fact much more, than, say countries of similar size. We don't see a lot of news about Indonesia or Nigeria too. Heck, not a lot about Canada, Mexico, Brazil or Argentina too though these are nearer and more important due to economic and cultural ties. And the woman doesn't appear very intelligent if she bought the Cipher conspiracy story. There is also a contradiction: if U.S. government or the media start covering the news much more, one side or the other will cry 'bias' and 'foreign interference'. Even innocent comments like "we like to see impartial elections" is twisted to mean some coded message of interference.

And who cares what USA government thinks? We are not important to them, so we don't care about USA. lol.

Her complaint is primarily about U.S. media. She has a beef with U.S. government too; but primary target of criticism seems to be media.

 

[LeGenD]

Floods, economic collapse, mass protests, political tumult, military crackdowns, an imprisoned former Prime Minister and disappeared journalists – there's a lot going on in Pakistan, but U.S. news media is quiet. Despite Pakistan being a staple in U.S. international news coverage, recent events – which also implicate the U.S. government as having interfered in the country’s democratic processes – have garnered little coverage on the gravity of the current political situation in Pakistan which has seen the country’s military exert extreme control and repression. What’s going on? Backspace’s Sana Saeed looks at how the relationship between institutions of power and influence - media and foreign policy - works to manufacture which stories we care about and how.

This is for the best.

Pakistani are reactive people and cannot stand constructive criticism. You speak in favor one quarter, another quarter will have a problem with it. Scores of Pakistani do not even know what is happening in the country. Pakistani politicians are busy fooling the masses in typical fashion. Pakistani media does not tell much about American contributions to Pakistani society, much of the fanfare is reserved for China, and much of the focus is on politics.

Donald Blome's strategy is better. Move around and see things for yourself and then decide what Americans can do to make lives better for Pakistani citizens and the poor. Some have problem with this too.