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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Friday November 02, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Protest
Journalists call for reopening of Ismail’s case |
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Despite passage of a year, government has literally failed to arrest the killers perpetrators behind the gruesome murder of senior Journalist Ismail Malik. In this regard, on the call of Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalist (RIUJ), hundreds of journalists staged a protest demonstration outside Press Club on Thursday and condemned the negligence of the government in this regard. They said the government has failed to expose the culprits behind the killing of 24 journalists including Ismail Malik during last seven years. RIUJ President, Secretary General Rawalpindi/Islamabad Press Club Muhammad Afzal Butt was also present on the occasion. Before the start of the protest demonstration, Dua was offered for the departed souls. The participants also pledged that the journalist community will face all challenges whole-heatedly and perform their duties honestly. |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=78501 |
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Reopening of journalist murder case demanded |
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Despite of passing of one whole year, government has failed to arrest the killers behind the murder of veteran journalist Malik Ismail. In this regard, on the call of RIUJ hundred of journalists strongly protested outside press club on Thursday.
(Nation-5)
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Press under siege | Protect media persons |
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“The media organisations have to accept the fact that the lives of media-persons are precious and their business is highly dependant on those who are neither secure nor insured. The recent loss of life and limb should be a clear signal for the media owners that their employees need to be trained to avoid such mishaps. Besides proper training, they should be insured before they go to cover conflict. I hope this process will now start.”
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=126481&catid=11 |
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Media Workshops
SAFMA’s media centre offering TV journalism course |
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South Asian media centre set up in City
SAFMA’s first South Asian Media Centre (SAMC) has begun offering an 8-week course in TV journalism to the students from SAARC nations. The South Asian Free Media Association Secretariat has been shifted to the new premises at 177-A Shadman-II, Lahore situated off FCC underpass on Canal Road. The centre has an auditorium for showing films, documentaries and live performances to select gatherings of experts for discussion and media projection. Dr Hassan Askari, Rita Manchanda, Najam Sethi, Khalid Ahmed, Salima Hashmi, Sharmini Boyle, Vinod Dua, Ivor Gaber, Shoaib Hashmi, Talat Hussain and Zafar Abbas are among the teachers delivering lectures to the first batch. A whispering café has been set up at the centre to provide journalists, intellectuals and political leaders with a place to sit together, conceive and beget ideas and solutions and share their experiences. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\02\story_2-11-2007_pg7_36 |
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US journalist conducts workshop on election coverage in Sialkot |
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Veteran US journalist and author Arnold Isaacs conducted a day-long workshop for local journalists on election coverage at the district nazim’s office today. The US Consulate in Lahore is sponsoring the workshop, with support from the district government and the Sialkot Press Club.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\02\story_2-11-2007_pg7_18 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Journalists freed |
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Abducted journalists reach home
Badin journalists got their two kidnapped colleagues freed from clutches of dacoits through their own efforts, after efforts of police and chief minister’s directives for their recovery yielded no result. Haji Khan Lashari and Amar Singh Rathore of Talhar, along with two others were kidnapped from near Tando Ghulam Hyder police station in Tando Moha-mmad Khan, by a group of dacoits two months ago when they were going to Talhar in a car. The freed journalists were brought in a big procession to their home town Talhar. They were looking weak and ill. They said they were tortured physically and mentally. Earlier, after local journalists’ protests six police teams were constituted for their recovery.The dacoits were demanding Rs5 million in ransom and later Rs2 million for journalists’ release. The police had picked up six suspected people who were released after intervention of some influential people. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=126590&catid=2 |
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SHC asks newsmen to file statements: CM’s remarks on wall chalking |
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The Sindh High Court asked the newsmen who reported Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim’s remarks allegedly justifying the wall chalking against its chief justice to submit their statements by Nov 12. A five-member bench comprising Justices Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Mushir Alam, Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari and Zia Pervez was hearing a contempt case initiated by a report of the SHC registrar. The registrar cited press reports quoting the CM as saying that the chalking reflected public opinion. The court found the CM’s remarks prima facie contemptuous and issued him a notice.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/02/local5.htm |
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Media serving global corporations by waging battles for people’s minds: Aslam Azhar |
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In our time, the battles being waged around the world are no longer battles for territory alone, for oil and economies. They are battles for the minds of men and women. And these battles are being waged by the media in the service of, no longer kings and emperors, but the global corporations, argued Aslam Azhar, who is regarded as the founding father of television in Pakistan.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\02\story_2-11-2007_pg12_9 |
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Khabrain column |
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Khabrain columnist Afzal Shahid comments, “PTV should also give projection to opposition in current affairs programs. Government should review its current affairs policy. It will help to restore the image of PTV among viewers.”
(Khabrian-10)
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MNP system at verge of failure |
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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) system is facing acute failure due severe problems in services. Customers are not satisfied with MNP system. They have lodged huge complaints about the service experienced after MNP. PTA official told that some operators have reservations about MNP. Report by the Jang.
(Jang-3)
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