WHY does our TV have a fixation with politicians and with Panama? On the one hand, the cumulative effect of all TV programmes is that all politicians are nincompoops and fools; on the other hand they focus on them. Breaking news wisdom tells us `Imran Khan has reached airport` another bit of this `news` gives us the world-shaking development that Nawaz Sharifhas reached Lahore;another piece of `breaking nonsense` informs us that the opposition has staged a walk something that occurs daily.

Why cannot our TV channels give us cultural news? Just watch CNN and the BBC and you will find little of politics and a lot of cultural coverage of Africa and many parts of the world. Now our TV channels do not have children`s programme. When PTV had a monopoly, people watched children`s programme, hosted by Sohail Rana and Nayyara Noor. There were also cultural and literary debates, and Neelam Ghar was in a class by itself, so was Alif Noon, a sophisticated comedy.

Now there are hardly any comedy programmes, and music has disappeared from TV. All we have tall( shows in which so-called experts babble about a subject done to death Panama, Panama and Panama. Could they spare us this nonsense? Ansar Ahmad Khan Hyderabad