Did We Really Need Ramzan Transmissions This Year?
As soon as Ramzan arrives, television channels across Pakistan, get into a war of ratings. Rather than letting people stay off the television and devote time to prayers, these television channels make people stick to the screens alongside their Ramzan transmissions, calling ulemas on the channels as guests and making general public participate in quizzes and games.
This year, because of the coronavirus lockdown, and PEMRA’s issued guidelines people thought there would be no Ramzan transmissions as well as meaningless game shows gifting bikes on television, but we were extremely wrong. The channels, as usual, are in their race for ratings with their Ramzan transmissions and the game shows are going about their monkey business as usual.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_aRoC1JFYV/
And of course, Twitter isn’t having it well. People have been calling out the Ramzan transmissions for all sorts of reasons including the channel’s insensitivity to the grave cause of coronavirus as production sets expose the teams and the audience participating to the virus, (because we see none of the host or the guest or the participants wearing a mask on TV yet.
Here’s what twitter has been saying;
I turned on TV and i was shocked to see Ramzan Transmissions on every TV channel where they have gathered audience and NOBODY was wearing mask/gloves and 0% social distance! Before ramadan every media person on TV and on their social media was appealing to stay home stay safe.
— Abdurehman Munir 马献 (@AbdurehmanMunir) April 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/Neeeeeeeeba/status/1254788073679773701?s=20
Government needs to shut all these channels and their ramzan transmissions for a while atleast. https://t.co/23z6ieYRI7
— undone (@just_kidding01) April 27, 2020
Covid-19 brought everything to a halt but still couldn't stop Ramzan transmissions
— Mahnoor Sheikh (@mahnoorrsheikh) April 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/UmarHayaKr/status/1253115911252381696?s=20
But we will not stop the ridiculous Ramzan Transmissions… https://t.co/wVQu4Puw9q
— Not Privileged Enough to Underplay it 🇵🇸 (@i_am_aab) April 27, 2020
WHY ARE ALL THESE RAMZAN TRANSMISSIONS HAPPENING? WHYYYYYYYYY
— F!💤a Rahman (@FizzaRahman) April 27, 2020
Why in Earth do we have these ridiculous Ramzan Transmissions….can we just put an end to these already!!@reportpemra kindly ban all forms of ramzan transmissions. They are a mockery of the month.
— Not Privileged Enough to Underplay it 🇵🇸 (@i_am_aab) April 27, 2020
Masajid band kralo, lekin Ramzan game show transmissions pr aiteraaz bhi na kro. If this isn't the biggest form of hypocrisy and we're not ready to accept, we're dead as a nation.
— Mohsin (@MohsinSaeed18) April 26, 2020
