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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Saturday December 02, 2006
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Intimidation of press continues |
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Media
in Pakistan faced at least 14 recorded incidents of attacks and
harassment in November, raising the total number of such incidents to
114 during the current year, says a report issued by an international
media NGO here on Friday. According to the report, titled “State of
Pakistani Media Freedom ,” various government agencies, militant groups
and a political party were reportedly found involved in these
incidents. The report, compiled by Intermedia Pakistan, an
international NGO working to promote open media worldwide and monitors
state of media in the country, shows that three journalists were
abducted, two were tortured, and six others were intimidated in various
reported incidents in November. Narrating the incidents, the report
says Dilawar Khan Wazir, a correspondent of Dawn in South Waziristan,
went missing from Islamabad under mysterious circumstances on November
19. He was released after confinement of more than 24 hours. After his
release, Dilawar said that the abductors took him to an unidentified
location and asked questions about his work in the tribal areas. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/02/nat5.htm |
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Online local broadband TV Channel planned |
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With
the advances in Tchnology and the increase in the number people online
broadband internet channel have become popular. There are thousands of
such channels cropping up on web from across the globe…
The Nation Metro, Page-24 |
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Newspaper agency owner shot dead in Dara Adamkhel |
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Rosham
Khan (50), a social worker and the owner of a newspaper agency, was
killed here on Friday by unidentified gunmen at his shop. Witnesses
said two masked men stopped their bike in front of Khan’s newspaper
agency in Aslam Market at around 8am, and one of them – dressed in a
tribal police uniform – entered the shop and started firing at Khan,
while the other man stayed outside. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\02\story_2-12-2006_pg7_3 |
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Taliban lift ban on sale of newspapers in N Waziristan |
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The
local Taliban have lifted a ban on the sale of newspapers in North
Waziristan that was imposed following an “erroneous news report”, which
claimed that four tribal militants were killed in a clash with security
forces. A journalist in Miranshah told Daily Times that news stalls
reopened on Friday after the Taliban lifted the ban late on Thursday
evening. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\02\story_2-12-2006_pg7_13 |
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Media urged to highlight awareness of Aids |
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Naib
Nazim Nasreen Jalil has said social organisations and media can play
important role in creating awareness among people to control Aids. She
was addressing an anti-AIDS walk taken out in connection with the World
Aids Day on Friday. The walk was organised by Sindh Aids Control
Programme in coordination with various NGOs. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/02/local5.htm |
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Dawn staffer’s house robbed |
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Bandits
looted the house of a Dawn staffer in Korangi’s Lucknow Society on
Friday. Three armed men barged into the house of Abdul Latif Shaikh on
Friday afternoon and held the family at gunpoint. They collected cash,
jewellery and other valuables from the house and escaped. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/02/local24.htm |
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New DGPR appointed |
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Former
Media advisor to the CM Farrukh Mehmood Shah has been appointed
director general public relations on the 3-year contract, sources told
Daily Times. Former DGPR Shoaib bin Aziz has been posted as Social
Welfare and Women’s Development secretary. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\02\story_2-12-2006_pg13_3 |
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FM LISTENING |
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AIR
– the backbone of FM
Unity is an essential thing for survival in today's world. For
continued existence it is not only imperative on individual level but
also important on a collective level. Becoming one voice it helps to
escalate strength and to make things easier. Besides this it also helps
to win against the competitor or enemy. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=71117&catid=17&date=12/02/2006&fcatid=14 |
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ARTICLES |
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Weapons
of mass media
By John Hind
A great deal is said about the prevalence of gun crime and prevalence
of ammunition culture. But one could also say how little there is,
particularly given the frequency with which films and TV programmes
show images of guns as entertainment, and how – since the turn of the
century – the police have increasingly been allowed to carry firearms
in the public arena. And how the news has almost daily been riddled
with talk of ‘worthy’ violence. |
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http://www.dawn.com/weekly/review/review11.htm |
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LETTERS TO EDITOR |
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Electronic
media and children
Is the electronic media harmful for the children? This question has
been hotly debated for the last several years and continues to draw
support from both sides. Before television took control of our lives,
parents used to be the only channel through which children learned
about the outside world. Since children learned to read in stages,
books provided a kind of natural screening process. Television
destroyed the system that segregated adults from children. |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=11 |
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