With great powers come great responsibilities

I entirely laud the efforts of our journalists but I would like to ask a question to the media especially electronic media. After imposing the martial law in the shape of emergency, television channels were taken off air. Our so called President through PEMRA amended the “Code of Conduct” and asked the electronic media to ratify the new code of conduct in order for the channels to go on air again. Basically, the President was taking revenge with the electronic media as he did with the judiciary and sadly all the channels succumbed to Musharraf’s pressure except one. This has sent wrong signals to Musharraf and musharafeens. I ask the media where is the unity among them which they showed when Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar was removed and when Aaj and Geo offices were ransacked? Why were financial considerations all of sudden more important than freedom of press? Now that elections are round the corner and we do not have any credible media functioning fully, wouldn’t that be easy for the establishment to rig elections again. To a great extent it was the responsibility of the media to show us what actually would be happening in the elections and their resoluteness would have been a great deterrent for the establishment to rig the elections. If one channel can stand the pressures, why can’t others?