“The Urdu spoken in TV news is much more formal than the Urdu I learned to speak at home, making it difficult to understand quick roundups and impossible to follow discussions, where interruptions and yelling are common.”
“I’ve struggled to keep up with the news in Pakistan.”
“She felt disconnected from the Pakistani news cycle and didn’t like feeling uninformed.”
“Opening Twitter to scroll and sift through jokes, memes, and hot takes is an extremely chaotic way to find news.”
“Even though they get a lot of news living in Pakistan, there’s just so much of it and they’ve been bombarded with it every day and it’s also very cluttered.”