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These are but the most egregious examples of what has become a massive
exercise in micromanaging day-to-day news coverage.
Certainly there are instances where the media has been cavalier with the
facts and intemperate in tone, but there are legal remedies to counter
libellous allegations, such as the defamation law.
Compare that with the British press — less free than ours, according to Mr
Khan — which has used epithets like ‘clown’ to describe the UK’s newly
elected prime minister.
In any case, all political parties have been at the receiving end of the
Pakistani media’s shortcomings, not the PTI alone.
In fact, for the wall-to-wall coverage of its 2014 dharna, the PTI has much
to thank the far freer press of the time.