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Appeal to all TV anchors

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PUBLIC memory is short, so goes the proverb. This greatly helps the opposition when lambasting the incumbents for their shortcomings. The public rounds it up because it is rightly concerned with “today’s” misery, forgetting the factors that led to such hardships. The present is always linked to the past. On almost all TV networks, generally […]


Rozan seminar: ‘Media, civil society should form anti-torture lobby’

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LAHORE: The media and civil society should together put pressure on the government to comply with international commitments, as well as Pakistani laws, against the use of torture by security agencies, said speakers at a seminar here on Monday. The seminar on ‘Prevalence of torture in Pakistan, our international commitments and the role of media’ […]


Media as a guide and monster

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By: Fazal Muhammad Khan Media has become a powerful actor in the modern world, particularly in Pakistan. Media inclusive of traditional media and social media primarily aims at informing, educating and entertaining the public; but in doing it so; it at times have worked to lead its viewers and/or readers in Pakistan to sociopolitical chaos […]


PEMRA clarifies landing rights story

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ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Office and Pemra spokesmen have contradicted a news story published in The News on Monday headlined “Baboo set to make Rs4m monthly out of Nawaz’s promise to China.” The Prime Minister’s Office spokesman clarified that neither the prime minister nor anyone on his behalf ever contacted any person on the issue […]


Media Black Holes

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For some places to get any attention, people have to die. In Balochistan, mere death is not good enough, people have to die in large numbers, better still, die due to a natural calamity since natural disasters seem to be politically neutral. As Awaran was struck by one of the most horrific earthquakes of recent […]


Breaking news: terrorism and news media — II

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Terrorists, news anchors, and media experts share the view that those whose names make the headlines have power Media sometimes do not merely report the horror of terror. They become part of it, adding to the drama. Some scholars speak of the ‘theatre of terror’. At the heart of the theatre metaphor is the audience. […]


Breaking News: terrorism and the news media — I

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To remain morally neutral and objective towards terrorism and to sympathise with terrorist acts is to betray ethics and morality While terrorism spread inside and outside Pakistan well before 9/11, it became an even more popular weapon since 9/11. Examining reasons, it can be argued that media might be a vector of transmission that can […]


Outdated journalism course still being taught at AIOU

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ISLAMABAD: Humayun, a student of journalism at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), visited the printing press of a newspaper and was taken aback to know that his course of study did not contain any topic on the process of newspaper printing. When he brought the matter to the notice of his teacher, the latter […]


Performance of media not up to mark

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RAWALPINDI: Former Federal Minister for Information Javed Jabbar said the performance of the print and electronic media, as well as the social media, was not up to the mark. He stated this while speaking at a roundtable discussion arranged by Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) in collaboration with the NGO Fridrich Ebert Stiftung and the […]


State of media in Pakistan

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A LONG time ago the church was very powerful in Europe. So powerful that if anybody spoke against the priest or pastor, he was punished to the extent that his or her generations remembered. The common punishment was burning alive on the stakes. The church used to poke its nose in all affairs, may it […]


Being responsible: ‘Monitoring the media is a collective responsibility, not just the govt’s’

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KARACHI: The print and electronic media in Pakistan is in a dire need to conduct candid self-critical reviews of their own performance, said former senator Javed Jabbar at a conference to review the recommendations of the Media Commission appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The event was held jointly by the Citizen’s Initiative on […]


Media urged to play role in restoring peace in society

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Karachi: Senior journalists from print and electronic media on Tuesday underlined the need for increasing the coverage of peace initiatives and highlighting positive things to motivate society for easing tensions and restoring peace as being the basic human right. They were speaking at a consultative meeting organised by the National Organisation for Working Communities (NOWC) […]


Pakistan: Court seeks to impose restrictions on live TV coverage, Journalists oppose curbs on media

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The Supreme Court of Pakistan on August 23, 2013 directed The government to submit a comprehensive report of making the procedure of controlling the live transmissions of television channels. Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had taken suo moto notice of the case regarding Islamabad firing incident of August 15 where a person opened […]


PFUJ, KUJ oppose curbs on media

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KARACHI, Aug 25: The Karachi Union of Journalists will resist attempts by the government, the Pemra or from any other quarter to impose any restraint on electronic media. A resolution adopted at the annual general council of the KUJ on Saturday said the journalist community would thwart attempts by any quarter to suspend transmission of […]