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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Sunday September 09, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Regulation
Khabrain Group, Nawa-i-Waqt get TV licences |
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Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Friday issued TV licences to two leading media stakeholders Khabrain Group of Newspapers and M/s Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Newspapers to launch their TV channels namely Channel 5 and Waqt TV respectively.
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani handed over the licences to Editor Khabrain/CEO Channel 5 Imtinan Shahid and Editor The Nation/Executive Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Arif Nizami. A ceremony was held in this regard in cabinet block that was attended by Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani, PEMRA Iftikhar Rasheed, secretary information Syed Anwar Mehmood, Editor Khabrain/CEO Channel 5 Imtinan Shahid and Editor The Nation/Executive Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Arif Nizami. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_Ba_ShortNews.aspx?fbshortid=2235&bcatid=14&date=09/08/2007&fcatid=14&bstatus=Archive |
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Media in Court
PU Journalism pupils get 25 extra marks |
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Justice Syed Asghar Haider of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the Punjab University (PU) to give 25 additional marks to the students of MA Development Journalism (DJ). The judge gave this order in two identical petitions filed by 28 students of DJ part 2, Department of Communication Studies. Earlier, the legal advisor of the PU, Arif Raja, requested the court to refer the matter to the PU vice chancellor because he had returned from abroad. At this the judge remarked that the court had already given him a chance to ask the VC to resolve the matter according to the decision of the PU’s Board of Studies (BoS). The petitioners had submitted in their petitions that they had boycotted the paper 3 of the DJ part 2 exams because most questions in the paper were not from the course. The petitioners’ counsel said that the BoS had allowed 25 grace marks to all students but the VC had rejected the recommendation. They requested the court to order the PU to give them the marks.
(Daily Times),
(Nation)
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LHC issues notice on petition against Pemra Ordinance |
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Lahore High Court has issued notice to Attorney General of Pakistan in a petition filed against Pemra ordinances. Lahore based advocate M D Tahir had filed the case challenging Pemra ordinance as an attempt to curb freedom of expression. Lahore High Court bench accepted the petition and issued notice to AGP.
(Khabrian-3)
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Media Unions
Reorganization of press club Pindi Ghaibe |
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Reorganization of Pindi Ghaibe has completed. K B presided the meeting of Press club. Mr. K B Aziz was elected president. Names of other office bearers were finalized with consensus.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-5)
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Media Miscellaneous
Cartoonist lauded for creativity |
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Noted cartoonist and journalist I H Zaidi was paid glowing tributes for his vision and imagination in developing his caricatures and cartoons, features and humorist sketches, compiled in the form of book, titled ‘Zaidi Kay Cartoon’ that was launched on Friday at the Arts Council of Pakistan. Speakers, who threw light on the creativity of Zaidi observed that Irshad Haider Zaidi, known as I H Zaidi, who was the creator of ‘Geo Cartoon’ being showed at Geo Television Network, was indeed very articulate and communicative in depicting the genuine problems and thoughts of ordinary people. Geo TV President Imran Aslam held that I H Zaidi was not only a cartoonist who sketched powerful cartoons, but by applying his mind in capturing the feelings of ordinary people, he acted as a ‘Mind Leader’. The Editor, Jang, Mehmood Shaam, said that Zaidi was amongst the top cartoonists in South Asia who turned his hand from print media to electronic media and made his mark by giving unique presentations. |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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IRC highlights people’s problems through media |
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The Interactive Resource Centre (IRC) has launched a media campaign to highlight people’s problems and convey them to government representatives, said IRC programme manager Afifa Khaliq while screening a documentary at Lahore Press Club on Friday. Khaliq said the IRC was working in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Punjab Initiative Funds had launched a two year programme titled ‘Establishing Participatory Accountability Processes for Better Service Delivery’. She said the programme covered only two areas – Bhakkar and Shalimar Town, Lahore.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\08\story_8-9-2007_pg7_38 |
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Radio
FM 92 actually Kasur-based FM 90 by Sehrish Wasif |
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FM 92, which can be heard in Lahore at a frequency of 92 and has kept Lahorites curious about its ownership, is actually Kasur-based FM 90 and owned by M/s Ranja Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, The Post learnt Friday. The officials of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) said the signals of FM 90 also reach Lahore, adding the authority was investigating to know about the range of the signals. The officials said in the near future the authority was looking forward to issue licences to FM channels for each district. "Our objective is to establish at least one FM channel in every district of Pakistan", said the officials. They said Islamabad traffic police would also launch an FM channel soon. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=116897&catid=17&date=09/08/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Music
60 shops destroyed in Mingora |
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An early morning explosion on Friday rocked two markets in Mingora, destroying 60 shops of video games, CDs and cosmetics, officials and witnesses said. The explosion ripped through the Ali Plaza around 4.30 am, damaging 20 shops on the first floor and 20 on the ground floor. Another 10 shops of cosmetics and two hair-cutting saloons were destroyed in an adjacent market. The powerful explosion caused cracks in the buildings. Witnesses saw doors and window-fames flying in the air. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/08/top7.htm |
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Copyrights
Dawn Editorial, “Condoning the plagiarists” |
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“In fact, the university had acknowledged in a meeting of its syndicate held in April that any decision taken against the plagiarists “would serve as a landmark case relating to ethical writing practices and research”. But then the syndicate ended up handing down very mild punishments. Given the autonomy the Punjab University enjoys in running its affairs, there is little that the commission can do on the issue other than a refusal to provide funds. Unless the university realises the gravity of the problem, efforts to eradicate plagiarism will not go far enough.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/08/ed.htm#2 |
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HEC backed on plagiarism |
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The executive Council of Teacher’s Front Punjab University expressed on Friday concern over what it said, irresponsible elements misusing Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association demanding the release of grants of PU withheld by HEC without specifying reasons.
(Dawn-12)
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Telecommunication
PTA directed to get through on cellular firms |
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Senate body takes note of mobile companies’ advertisements
The Senate's sub-committee on interior on Friday took a strong note of the promotional ads being run by mobile companies on the print and electronic media and said that most of these ads were not in conformity with the country's social, moral, ethical and religious values. The committee chaired by Senator Gulshan Saeed directed the PTA, Ministry of IT and the I&B to monitor the advertisements and stop screening of unethical ones, which are spoiling the younger generation. The code of conduct with regard to advertisements must be followed in letter and spirit. Revenues are important but so are morals, observed a committee member.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=116892&catid=17&date=09/08/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Letter to editor, “Telephone directories” |
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Tahir Gul Hasan, “WHY has the PTCL discontinued printing phone directories when they normally home-delivered these until a few years ago? If the reliance is tilting towards electronic means, the least they can do is provide each customer with a CD containing all subscribers’ phone numbers and addresses.In this information age, the PTCL has no website that one may visit and get such information. The operators at 17 normally dish out only one phone number at a time. It is time the PTCL gave back something to customers who have made it so profitable.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/08/letted.htm#10 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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