When the news media becomes its own newsmaker there is reason to rejoice – or repent. Take Geo News, for instance. Pakistan's most watched news channel is holding the world transfixed by doing what the country's politicians haven't dared – locking horns with the all-powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The first week of June this year saw a further escalation in their battle, with the channel suing the spook agency for defamation over accusations of being 'anti-state', even as the country's electronic media regulator suspended Geo for 15 days for reporting that the ISI was behind the April shooting of Hamid Mir, one of the network's marquee journalists, and imposed a fine of PKR 10 million (around USD 100,000). We can only rejoice at a media organisation showing such courage under fire.
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