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Saturday September 09, 2006
A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues
STATE OF MEDIA
Newsman deprived of car, valuables
SUKKUR: Two people, including the reporter of a Sindhi daily, were kidnapped from Thull late on Thursday night. Ashfaq Khoso, reporter of a Sindhi daily, along with his friend Mumtaz Khoso, was on way to Kandhkot from Jacobabad in a car (K-8587) when he a group of armed dacoits intercepted them near Thull and kidnapped them at gunpoint.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=2
Compensation for murdered tribal reporter's family
Lt General Hamid Farooq, the Peshawar Corps Commander, on Friday announced compensation to the sons of Nasir Afridi, a tribal journalist of Dara Adam Khel who was murdered by some unidentified men a few months ago.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?
page=2006\09\09\story_9-9-2006_pg7_26
RADIO SECTOR
FM LISTENING: The entire FM anthology in one list
FM channels, unlike television channels, are not accessible outside the realms of their local boundaries. Whereas one can watch one's favourite TV show any where within Pakistan. I wanted to give an idea to my readers that if they were travelling or they moved to another city, which FM channel they would be able to access. Hence, following is a list of nationwide FM channels, the company that owns them and the area where it can be received in.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=58134&
catid=17&date=09/09/2006&fcatid=14
TELEVISION SECTOR
“People demanded to make PTV booster operational at Tameergarh”, Daily Aaj, Page-2
“PEMRA shut down transmissions of illegal FM radio station in Balakot”, Daily Umat,Front page
ARTICLES ON MEDIA
The art of grabbing media attention
By Fasihur Rehman Khan
Some legislators have mastered the art of generating news, and then become lead actors of the same. They pounce on every other opportunity generated in the political arena with all the zeal but with a primary aim to grab attention of the media — the best of the communicators to the political fraternity and more importantly voters out there. One of political clergy's “lead roles” in the present assembly, witty and shrewd Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, tops them all in the present Parliament. He has mastered this art to near perfection.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=2
SOURCES:
The News: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/
The Nation: http://www.nation.com.pk/
Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/
The Dawn: http://www.dawn.com
Spider: www.spider.tm
BBC South Asia : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/
Herald: http://dawn.com/herald/
Aurora : www.aurora@dawn.com
The Economist: www.economist.com
IFEX: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/158/
Jang: http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/
Nawa-i-waqt: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk
Khabrain: http://www.khabrain.com
Daily Development News: http://asp.isb.sdnpk.org/
The Post: http://www.thepost.com.pk/
Business Recorder: http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org
Asia Media: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu
PEMRA: www.pemra.gov.pk
States Man: http://www.statesman.com.pk
Frontier Post: www. frontierpost .com.pk
Compiled by , Sajid Gondal Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan .
DISCLAIMER: The contents, including news and headlines, in this newsletter are reproduced from their respective publications ad verbatim as a public service to media observers. Internews does not author the contents and these, therefore, do not necessarily reflect organizational policy.
Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT)
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