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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Saturday July 07, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Police misbehave with journalists |
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In Rawalpindi, police officials misbehaved with journalists. Police stopped media men to perform professional duties when they rushed to Asghar Mall Rawalpindi vicinity from where an attempt was made to hit the plane carrying President Gen Pervaiz Mushrraf. One office ordered his subordinates to remove journalists from the scene. Police pushed journalists and behaved rudely.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-8)
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Media Miscellaneous
Govt has no objection on Live coverage of Lal Mosque events: BBC |
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BBC reports that one aspect is very prominent about Lal mosque carnage, that broadcast about incident is live. All Pakistani news channels are giving live coverage to incidents. Live coverage of chief Justice’s rallies was banned. But now government has no objection about live transmission of Lal mosque carnage. According BBC, live coverage of chief justice’s addresses to bar associations was not in the interests of government. It was the reason, curbs were imposed on media. While live coverage of lal mosque is not against government. It is the reason media has been given free hand.
(Jang-8) (Express-1)
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US University to help develop IMU faculty |
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IMU a milestone of Pak-US joint venture, says Durrani
Colorado University will work very closely with the proposed Islamabad Media University (IMU) for its faculty development on a 10-year programme basis. Colorado University (CU) is a state-funded university of the US. Thus, it will be a government-to-government collaboration and IMU is planning to start its short courses within next two months with the assistance of the CU. This was the outcome of a meeting between Federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani and a delegation of Colorado University. Mr Durrani said the university would be an excellent seat of learning offering education in mass communication, journalism, drama, music, graphics/animations and performing arts to students, journalists and media persons. Minister of State for Information Tariq Azeem talking to Dawn claimed that as a result of an ‘open media policy’ dozens of new media channels, newspapers and radio stations had sprung up in a short span of time. In this situation, he said, the need for a media university was more significant since there was no dedicated educational institute to provide media education at diploma, graduate and postgraduate levels while the journalist community and mass communication personnel were finding it difficult to seek admissions to foreign universities due to high cost of media education and the entry criteria, etc. The IMU will be the regional hub of education in the field of media and cater to the needs for trained manpower for media in the region.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/07/nat13.htm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\07\story_7-7-2007_pg7_38
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Daily Times Editorial, “PTV’s error” |
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After the Lal Masjid chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz was caught fleeing in a burqa, he was hauled up before state-owned PTV and made to wear the burqa again before fielding a barrage of questions that seemed to give little time to the arrested man to make his answers. This has attracted adverse comment from some private TV channels who think that PTV was unfair and unprofessional in its treatment of the interviewee.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\07\story_7-7-2007_pg3_1 |
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Radio
39pc radio listeners, 61pc TV viewers: survey |
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The percentage of radio listeners is increasing day by day whereas 91 percent listeners tune to Radio Pakistan and only 7 percent tune to other stations, a recently conducted survey by the Gallup Pakistan on the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation reveals. The survey shows 39 percent people are radio listeners whereas 61 percent people exclusively watch TV. Of the total radio listeners, 91 percent listen to the Radio Pakistan and the rest tune to foreign radio channels like BBC, VOA, AIR, and VOG. The study says radio is more popular in rural areas where it has 25 percent audience compared with 16 percent in the urban areas. The obvious reason is non-excess to other mode of information like electronic media. The survey shows 24 percent male radio listeners compared to 20 percent female listeners across the board and a majority tune to radio on Fridays and Sundays. About 15 different PBC stations in the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) were included in the survey. In Islamabad, 92 percent audience (45 percent regular and 29 percent occasional) listen to the Radio Pakistan. In Sindh, 22 percent radio listeners are in Karachi, 15 percent in Hyderabad/Mithi and 17 percent in Khairpur/Larkana. Most of the people in Karachi switch on to the radio from 9:00 to 11:00pm whereas in rural Sindh people listen to the radio between 9:00 and 10:00 pm. In Balochistan, 54 percent listeners are in Quetta/Zhob/Loralai, 21 percent in Khuzdar/Sibbi and 16 percent in Gawadar/Turbat. The survey report says 62 percent people listen to local programme Awale, 57 percent to Navety-e-Sehr, 29 percent to Malgra and 67 percent to Khalqi-Kehvni. In NWFP, the radio listener-ship is highest in Abbottabad (38 percent) followed by Kohat/Bannu/DI Khan (28 percent) and Peshawar (21 percent). Hayya-Alal-Falah and Her-Kaday-Aao are the most popular programmes besides news. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=106116&catid=17&date=07/07/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Movies
International film festival |
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A three-day international film festival kicked off at the Arts Council here on Friday with the screening of US documentary Whose Children Are These?, based on the harrowing experience of three American Muslim teenagers in the post-9/11 security situation. A Pakistani feature film, Khamosh Pani, a documentary, Islam in Europe, and and Iraqi documentary, On Common Ground, were the other presentations to the packed audience. On Saturday, a US documentary, American Ramadan, a UK film, Wasteland, an Iraqi film, The Blood of My Brother, and Ahlaam (produced in Iraq, UK and the Netherlands), will be screened. According to the organizers, the entry to the film exhibition is free. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/07/local16.htm |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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