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Daily Archives: August 15, 2010

Harassment of channels

Although the country’s electronic news media industry is reaching a growing audience, attempts have been made in recent years to curtail the viewers’ right to watch channels of their choice. The most infamous example was the Musharraf dispensation’s decree in 2007 that cable operators take certain channels offline. Yet despite the shift from a dictatorship […]


Note for the media

Sir: It is said that when you choose an action, you choose all its consequences, both intended and unintended. It seems that a sizable chunk of our mass media chose to continue their policy of bashing the government well into the floods. This resulted in spreading a constant pessimism and has led to a dangerous […]


Note for the media

Sir: It is said that when you choose an action, you choose all its consequences, both intended and unintended. It seems that a sizable chunk of our mass media chose to continue their policy of bashing the government well into the floods. This resulted in spreading a constant pessimism and has led to a dangerous […]


PPP, PML-N join hands to tackle flood challenge

* Gilani, Nawaz agree to set up body to raise funds for rehabilitation of flood victims and to monitor damage assesment process for judicious distribution of resources By Vidya Rana ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday joined hands to cope with the worst-ever floods in the country […]