Newspapers and political parties
Everyday our newspapers (Bangla and English) condemn the military-backed interim government for suspending democracy in our country. This is all very noble and professional. But I wonder why our newspapers never demand, in clear and unconditional terms (without using ifs and buts), of the AL and the BNP to get rid of their student and youth wings and to abandon politics of hartal.
We know most of our newspapers are either pro-AL or pro-BNP, with a few papers supporting other smaller parties. So, are we to understand that these newspapers are putting the interests of their political parties before the interests of our country? Newspapers with political orientation are nothing new and are acceptable up to a certain point, but just because you support a political party it doesn't mean you should turn a blind eye when it commits crimes, destroys all the major educational institutions in the country with student politics and cripples the country's economy with hartal and agitation programmes.
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