Monday November 06, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

EDITORIAL

The electronic media explosion
IN recent years, Pakistan has moved into the age of multiple-channel television broadcasting. The cable TV has brought the world close to the domestic viewers, earnestly making and shaping their opinions in the process. Is the exposure to western media expected to globalise the thought and behaviour patterns of the public? Can the Indian TV channels bring down the walls of ignorance and hostility between the two countries? Will the private channels finally render PTV ineffective and unpopular in terms of coverage of news and views? Let’s look at the news and entertainment broadcasting by the western TV channels. The former provide an instant look into the world events big or small, near or distant. Pakistani viewers of CNN, BBC, Sky News, Bloomberg and other news channels from abroad experience the process of compression of time and space, without being conscious about it.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/06/ed.htm#4

NEWS

Journalists demand arrest of Ismail's murderers
Rawalpindi and Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the brutal killing of senior journalist Ismail Malik. A large number of journalists participated in the protest here in front of Rawalpindi Islamabad Press Club Camp Office. The protesters were holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans demanding the arrest of the culprits involved in the murder of Ismail Malik and freedom of press.

http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/nov-2006/6/nationalnews2.php

Malaysian journalist for wider interaction
Malaysian journalists attending the second Islamic World Economic Forum in Islamabad look up to opportunities of wider interaction with regional and Pakistani counterparts. The Islamabad Forum, inaugurated by the Prime Minister at the Convention Center this evening was attended by heads of state and governments, business leaders, elite, experts and journalists from 67 countries. The delegates from Malaysia, include, among others, represents of seven leading news organisations of the multi-lingual Malaysian media.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=30751

Journalists’ Colony opening on 19th
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi will formally lay the foundation stone of Loi Bare Journalists’ Colony for the journalists of Rawalpindi/Islamabad on November 19th. The administration of Rawalpindi/Islamabad Press Club has been informed in this regard on behalf of secretary Punjab.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=67004&catid=17

Journalists banned from MC meeting
Journalists on Sunday were not allowed to participate in a meeting of Central Majlis-e-Amla of All Jammu Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) for coverage while invitation letter had been...

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/Allnews.aspx?ncat=hn

Journalist wins Yahoo! Int’l Fellowship
Imtiaz Ali, a BBC reporter for the Pashto Service has won the honour of being the first Yahoo! International Fellow at a journalism programme at Stanford University, California, USA. The new Yahoo! funded programme at Stanford's Johns Knight fellowships will be aimed at journalists from countries where there are restrictions on freedom of the press, either by government agencies or other forces, according to James Bettinger, director of the knight fellowships at Stanford University, says a press release.

http://www.statesman.com.pk/city/city3.htm

AIOU fails students for attempting paper in Urdu
The Students’ Action Committee of the Mass Communication Department, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), has criticised the varsity for violating its own rules by failing the students who attempted an examination in Urdu, not English. The university failed hundreds of MSc Mass Communication students who had attempted the Language Skills (964) exam in Urdu. The students said the university had given them the option of attempting papers in both languages, Urdu and English.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\06\story_6-11-2006_pg11_5

Colour, music, dance and shopping at one place
A blaze of colour, music and dance greeted holiday visitors on the second day of the Lok Virsa festival on Sunday. Folk dancers in colourful costumes representing the four provinces danced to the beats of drums and soothing tunes of flutes. Dancers provided a lively curtain raiser to what will certainly be an exciting fortnight of fun and entertainment for the residents of the sister cities.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\06\story_6-11-2006_pg11_13

Workshop on media, local govt
A three-day training workshop for the journalists and union council nazims on "Media and Local Governments", in collaboration with Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), is being held from Nov 6 at Taluka Council Hall TM Khan here.

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=hn&nid=17

Journalist escaped murder attemptt; FIR registered against accused
Mandra (Punjab): Senior journalist Muhammad Riaz was returning to Mandra from Doltana when accused ‘Sajjad’ attacked on him with knife but Muhammad Raz was escaped the attack. Nearby people came to help M Riaz and caught the accused and handed over to police…..
Nawa-e-Waqat, Page-5



FM LISTENING
Radio should promote culture
Every country has its own culture, traditions and beliefs that make it distinct form other countries. These features not only represent the people of the country but it also becomes their identity. Our national identity, which is an important thing, reflects our culture. All countries have their cultural heritage which needs to be preserved and promoted. The more it will be espoused the more it will be given importance by people.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=66989&catid=17

ARTICLE

Crimes against journalists
IT started innocently enough with a remark uttered in all seriousness by a guest at a recent dinner party. He wanted to know why a certain columnist who writes for this paper is opposed to the establishment of a proper democracy in this country, and why he never writes against the army. It was politely pointed out that it is an unwritten convention in the Fourth Estate that newspaper columnists do not comment on the works and views of other columnists. They leave that to the readers.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/06/op.htm#4

TECHNOLOGY

Google takes aim at fast e-mail for cell phones
Google Inc aims to close the gap between the classic way people get e-mail — sitting at a computer — and the slow-as-molasses reality of receiving e-mail on cell phones, the company said. The web search leader is introducing a custom version of its Gmail e-mail service that can run on any phone with Java software, or close to 300 different mobile phone devices. Gmail for mobile, as the new service is known, promises computer-like response times for viewing e-mail. And it retains many of the features users expect when running Gmail in Web browsers on their personal computers, Hsieh said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\06\story_6-11-2006_pg6_2

COMPILED by: Sajid Gondal, Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan (www.internews.org.pk)

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