Today’s News is tomorrow’s history: Impact of Yellow Journalism, Tabloids and Paparazzi on the future of Journalism and future history of Pakistan

Abstract

In the race of two R’s; revenue and rating, we often see that news agencies would go to any lengths to make their news sensational. News and reports lack in-depth research and prioritize entertaining people. Their target is to make their news "sensational" and to make it stand out among other news about the same topic. Yellow journalism, Paparazzi and Tabloidism are few examples of such style of news reporting. Pakistani media industry has also been affected by these unprofessional ways. Keeping in view the fact that Today’s News is Tomorrow’s history, we are making wrong history. All kinds of medium of mass communication are considered primary sources of history because they are written in the contemporary times. This research will be mainly focused on the aforementioned phenomenon and how they have affected Pakistani media industry directly and history of Pakistan indirectly and what is the future of journalism and history of Pakistan due to such practices.