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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Wednesday May 02, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Critique of Media
Jaferria Alliance rally against Geo TV |
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Jaferria Alliance held a rally against Geo TV in Karachi. Protesters blocked the Shahrah-e-Pakistan. They raised slogans against Yazidiat, Geo TV, Ghamidi and Tahir ul Islam. Protesters demanded to end the program of Javed Ghamdi on Geo TV and register a case against Geo and Ghamadi. Government should take notice for the Geo attempt to spread sectarian row in country. Rally urged the government to take strong legal action against the channel. A protest rally also held in Hangu against Geo and Ghamadi.
(Express-1)
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PPP refutes media reports on Benazir-Musharraf deal |
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Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) has categorically rejected the media reports about the imminent deal between Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf, and claimed the followers of democracy would never shake hand with the military dictators for evolving power sharing mechanism in future.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=95084&catid=2 |
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Media Unions
Dialogue on freedom of press |
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To mark International Press Freedom Day on May 3, the Karachi Union of Journalists is organising an interactive dialogue, in collaboration with the Karachi Press Club, on `State of the Media and Press Freedom in Pakistan’. It will be presided over by former Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court Wajihuddin Ahmad. The event has been dedicated to the memory of renowned advocate of press freedom Zameer Niazi. It will be held in the KPC’s Ibrahim Jalees Hall at 3pm. Leading journalists, jurists, social scientists and trade union leaders would share their views on the subject.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/02/local14.htm |
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RIUJ rally for freedom of press today |
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On the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists will hold a rally today to mark Press Freedom Day May 3rd. Rally will start from Geo building Blue Area Islamabad at 10: 30 in morning, it will end in front of Parliament House. RIUJ President Afzal Butt and General Secretary Ashfaq Sajid have appealed to journalists’ community to attend rally.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-4)
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Pakistan among top 10 worst offenders of press freedom |
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Pakistan is among the top 10 worst countries for press freedom, a US-based media watchdog said on Tuesday. Other worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand. “The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, but the rapid retreats in nations where the media have thrived demonstrate just how easily the fundamental right to press freedom can be taken away,” said Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, in a statement. In the Congo, two journalists had been killed since 2005, attacks on media workers had risen to nine from three and the leaders of press freedom group “Journaliste en Danger” were forced into hiding in 2006, CPJ said. “These three African nations, as diverse as they are, have won praise at times for their transition to democracy, but they are actually moving in reverse on press issues,” said Simon. Cuba is number five, Pakistan six, Morocco nine and Thailand 10 on the CPJ list.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\02\story_2-5-2007_pg1_7 |
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Books
Decaying books need urgent attention |
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Dr Mahmud Hussain Library of the University of Karachi (KU) has loyally served the students and teachers of the university for five long decades. However, its current condition is hardly commendable, and careful planning and adequate funding is required if this historical memento — built by the fathers of KU —is to be preserved for posterity. Unfortunately, the ground reality is that its entry into the digital age has been halted by a lack of funds and absence of professional management that is essential to turn it into a modern library. The library has 350,000 books and 150,000 periodicals and journals and about 10,000 to 15,000 titles have been put on line. The books for the library come from different sources; Asia Forum, a non-governmental organisation, provides the bulk of the books which the university buys from its own funds, but several private collectors too, donate books to the library.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=53951 |
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Theater
Ajoka Theatre staged “Burqavaganza” in spite government ban |
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Ajoka Theater staged the play “Burqavaganza” in spite of government ban on play. Madeeha Gohar of Ajoka showed her pledge to resist Talibanisation in country. She rejected any ban from government. While MMA leader Samia Raheel Qazi has condemned the stage play. She vowed to counter liberalism on all fronts.
(Nawa-e-Waqt-8)
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Copy Rights
Pakistan on US IPRs Watch List |
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The United States will continue to keep Pakistan on its Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Watch List and conduct an out-of-cycle review to monitor its progress on the IPRs during 2007, according to a Special 301 Report released by the office of US Trade Representative on Tuesday. In 2006, Pakistan was lowered from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List in recognition of its progress on IPRs enforcement.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\02\story_2-5-2007_pg7_8 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Govt believes in freedom of press, says Elahi |
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Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Tuesday said the government believed in freedom of press. He said it was because of the prudent policies of General Pervez Musharraf that a number of private TV channels were functioning in the country. The chief minister expressed these views after stone-laying ceremony of Journalist Housing Colony here, and later talking to newsmen at Sargodha Press Club.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=94952&catid=2 |
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Journalists Colony in Sargodha |
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The chief minister also laid the foundation stone of Journalists Colony and also announced Rs1.5 million special grant for the Sargodha Press Club. He directed District Coordination Officer Amjad Warraich to monitor the whole process and complete it in a short span of time. Press Club Secretary Shaheen Farooqi presented a charter of demand, including group insurance for journalists’ children for marriage and education besides free medical treatment to their families. Meanwhile, a group of lady councillors and leaders of PML women wing expressed their displeasure for ignoring them during the visit of the chief minister.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/02/nat18.htm |
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Media and terrorism |
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An 'extremist' by definition could also be a person, or a set of persons, subscribing to an extreme school of thought or ideology. However, this, by no means, translates into that particular individual indulging in activities which would make him a terrorist. It is a concept of the west itself that holding a set of beliefs is the right of every human -- acting on them is a whole other story altogether. Can the war on terror be interchanged with the war on extremism? If so, this brings out myriad problems. It would entail that in order to win the war, not only would you need to launch attacks on Al Qaeda-like organisations, but on any one who may agree with their outlook (which is what seems to be happening in any case with the often sporadic and indiscriminate bombings of villages and areas in Afghanistan, Iraq and FATA). That, from any point of view, ceases to be a case of fighting for liberty, and, instead, becomes a case of intolerance -- which is what was being fought against to begin with.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=53849 |
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Letter to Editor “Media and violence” |
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Huba Naeem comments “The media clearly has an impact, especially on young people. Children become desensitised to violence when they see it every day on television, in theatres and even in video games. They see no difference between what is real and what is not and do not realise the effects of it al. Even TV news deadens one's perception of reality. The human brain is a most delicate and complex mechanism. This delicate mechanism, especially in children, absorbs violence quickly. With a significant number of studies supporting the causal connection between media violence and aggressive behaviour in some children, we know the more life-like the violence depicted, the more likely that it will be learned.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=53837 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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