Najam Sethi: Geo’s Catch-22? – by Noha Beig


Last night (Tue, 19 April 2011) Najam Sethi’s show, Aapas Ki Baat, on Geo-News went off the air when Sethi was talking about agencies propping up Imran Khan. It returned after almost 10 minutes of ads. Its host said that there was a technical fault. This is the second time a ‘technical fault’ has occurred on the show. The first time it occurred a month ago when Sethi was taking SC to task.

Nevertheless, the little investigation that I could pull off in this respect suggests that it wasn’t really a tech fault but some background tussle within Geo between supposedly pro-Sethi and anti-Sethi groups.

It is also a fact that some powerful groups in Jang/Geo that are aligned with some shady powers – including some well known Geo anchors and The News reporters – have shown ‘concern’ and anger (to the management) at the way Sethi is conducting his show.

Most of them are also cringing from the fact that Sethi constantly alludes to them when he talks about that section of the media that has become pawns of the agencies and certain radical right-wing forces.

It is now to be seen for how long will Mir Ibrahim (CEO of Geo) be able to withstand the pressure he is facing of putting Sethi on an otherwise populist right wing channel, and also, for how long is Geo willing to continue this experiment of putting a liberal journalist on the platform of mainstream TV amidst all the hue and cry from the usual right-wing ranters.

It might not be that easy to pull the plug on Sethi, though, because Sethi’s show, in spite the fact that it airs after 11pm, is now reported to be showing good ratings in the past month or so.

is Sethi about to become Geo’s Catch-22?

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Related article: Geo TV gets censored…by Geo TV: Najam Sethi’s show and the out of bound topics – by Maula Bux Thadani

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