class assignment

                                         "media promoting yellow journalism"

“Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism)

 In Pakistan, yellow journalism refers mostly to the exploitation of issues of national interest for the corrupt journalists which led Pakistan towards the emergence of a debate in various circles of the country about the accountability of the media and the journalistic profession.

The media is ideally perceived as the fourth pillar of the state (alongside the judicial, legislative and executive powers), but in Pakistan, most people have come to distrust the media and those who practice journalism. The sensational aspect of newspapers and private news television channels and the problematic role they play in society raise increasing concern among the public.

Presently, Pakistanis are demanding that star anchors of various current affairs programmes and other journalists be held accountable for their actions. The media in general and yellow journalists are criticized on various platforms, Internet forums and television programmes. People also resort to wall chalking against the practice of yellow journalism and media exaggeration in the streets of major cities.