By Zubeida Mustafa THERE is much to be cherished about the freedom that our media, especially the electronic media, has come to enjoy. The extent to which this freedom — it was called licence in earlier days — has gone is provoking a debate. This is a positive development because there are some media heavyweights […]
By Zubeida Mustafa THERE is much to be cherished about the freedom that our media, especially the electronic media, has come to enjoy. The extent to which this freedom — it was called licence in earlier days — has gone is provoking a debate. This is a positive development because there are some media heavyweights […]
KARACHI: Media can create awareness among the masses regarding gender issues and can bring behavioral changes in society through its programmes and Radio is an active and cheaper source of information and awareness in the rural areas of the country. This was said by the participants of a 3-day training workshop on “Gender Justice and […]
By: Ali Sultan Whenever some controversy about the media erupts, everyone gathers around and bulldozes social networking, print and television with “what actually is the media’s role.” My personal favourite is “we need to actually define things.” The thesis is simple, defining anything is sheer bollocks. It means that if the definers had their say, […]
By: Alefia T. Hussain Day after day, minute by minute, TV takes us places in pursuit of ‘drama’ — to private quarters of private people, to crime scenes, to studios where heads meet to create noise; a lot of noise. TV looks for drama at all the odd places — in hospitals, police stations, court […]
ISLAMABAD: A news story published in The Nation on February 1 regarding foreign visits of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) officials is misleading and distorted. A press release issued by the PBC says facts and figures about the issue have not been correctly reported. The factual position about the visits of PBC officials abroad to […]
By: Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Feb 3: India’s ruling Congress party on Friday disapproved of party leader Mani Shakar Aiyar appearing on a Pakistan TV talk show in which Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, participated through a phone link, the Press Trust of India said. “I don’t know […]
After a morning show caused outrage, journalists push for a code of ethics . By Zehra Abid KARACHI: Pakistan’s freewheeling electronic media, still in its nascent stage, needs much disciplining to step out of its current “state of anarchy,” journalists say. A debate on ethics and ‘moral policing’ by the media has ensued after Maya […]
Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Tuesday took serious note of what it called the creeping undesirable media practices, whereby television channels in particular had started invading the personal privacy in total disregard to social norms and ethics. The authority here in its 73rd meeting took a controversial morning show by a […]
PTV introduced shocking racism in its 9pm news bulletin when it said the Pakistani victory over England at Dubai on Saturday had destroyed ‘white arrogance’. What the hell! Was race the issue? We all were thrilled by our victory, but, while bringing that racism in its news bulletin, PTV forgot that precisely at that moment […]
By Taha Siddiqui LAHORE/KARACHI: After an intense online campaign, Samaa TV has fired morning show host and self-styled vigilante Maya Khan along with her team, and has said that her show will be taken off air. The decision comes after a controversial episode of the morning show, where Maya was seen conducting a ‘raid’ on […]
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani journalist, working for British Broadcasting Corporation’s Urdu and World Service, has been honoured with a prestigious BBC award for best reporting in the region. Zulfiqar Ali, senior correspondent of BBC in Islamabad, has been declared winner of this year’s BBC News Award of best reporting in the West and Central Asia […]
By Fifi Haroon The writer is a media and PR consultant based in London. She has a master’s degree in media anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies [email protected] This is not an op-ed entirely about Maya Khan; it is also about the inflated television culture we inhabit in Pakistan and how all-encompassing […]
IT is a fact that people remain glued to TV watching news channels as they get spicy stories and opinions along with heated discussions by politicians. But these news channels do not report on issues that need much attention. Recently, a Sindh University professor was gunned down, a PIA employee was harassed by policemen for […]
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