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| Journalism is generally
held as a mission – that it should be – however, we must not overlook the
ever-emerging market aspect of the esteemed profession. Here, profit guides
the media investors and owners of the Press with little and sometimes virtual
consideration for the essential members of this industry, the journalists.
While they are expected to scribe for social causes and to serve the society
with responsible professionalism; less room even of job security, or a
clear thinking regarding decent living for the journalists, is articulated
by both Press owners and the government. The matter has further worsened
with a decline of the traditional trade unionism, now reduced to mere rhetoric
for the rights of the journalists' community in the face of policy makers.
Tahir Malik owes our greatest felicitations that he rose to the occasion and has presented the case of Pakistani journalists in an objective, quantifiable and scientific manner that we publish in the preceding pages. This report covers information about professional lives and working conditions of 4500 journalists around the country. It avoids typical rhetoric mongering or moral appeals rather this is for the first time in the mainstream media that such data has been collected through a nation-wide survey to push journalist's perspective at the forefront. This would not only aggregate interests of the journalist community for better working conditions at the media policy levels, erstwhile excluded, but also link them with larger and weaker sections of the society. JRC anticipates that more and more concrete work will follow and journalists are not overlooked in drafting any future media policy, as freedom of the expression and information directly relates to peoples' capacity to sustain them at the first place. Mohammad Tanveer
1st May, 2000
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