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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Monday July 16, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Protest
Withdrawal of discount on tickets Journalist bodies to resist PIA decision |
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Journalists organisations have voiced protest over the withdrawal of discount on their tickets by PIA, and warned if PIA does not take back this decision, then no discount will be given to the national airlines on its advertisements in the newspapers. Vice President of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) Abdul Jabbar Khattak said PIA was not only giving discount to the journalists only, but it was allowing this concession to several others. He said the PIA had allowed the concession to the journalists, as the newspapers were publishing the advertisements of PIA on subsidised rates, adding, if the concession was taken back from the journalists, newspapers would also allow no discount on its advertisements. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=107592&catid=17 |
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Critique on Media
Pakistani press | From restriction to freedom to anarchy by Jamal Hussain |
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“The military aspect of the crisis is now over. The nation has to brace itself for the fallout and it is hoped eventually complete order will be restored. The media, especially the TV channels must now on their own carry out a through introspection of their actions and learn relevant lessons. Mistakes perhaps have been made mostly out of exuberance and inexperience. Hopefully lessons will be learnt and future crises will be handled by the media in a more professional manner.” |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=107488&catid=11 |
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Media Workshop
Education roundup | LCWU holds two-day media workshop |
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The Lahore College for Women University’s Mass Communication Department organized a two-day workshop on ‘Documentary and Docu-drama Production’ last week. Addressing the workshop, Information Secretary Ishfaq Gondal called on the students to prepare for future challenges. “The significant aspect of the media is imagination and creativity,” he said, adding that a communicator must have the ability to leave imprints on the minds of the audience by their messages. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CityNewsT.aspx?dtlid=107525&catid=3 |
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Workshop on magazine journalism |
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The press institute of Pakistan (PIP) is holding one day workshop on ‘magazine journalism; status and requisites’ at its auditorium (4-C, LDA Flats) here on Tuesday (tomorrow). A PIP spokesman said here that Punjab Education Minister will chair the workshop.
(Dawn-5)
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Media Miscellaneous
Closure of FM Station in Sawt decided |
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Sources have informed that government has decided to close down illegal FM stations in Sawt. Administration is active for the closure; notice has been issued to clerics, while clerics have refused to close down the stations. Cleric Mulvi Fazal has vowed to show resistance against the decision for closure. He claimed that FM channels were being used for Islamic teachings.
(Khabrian-3)
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Media team under cloud of gloom after operation |
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Most of the mediapersons who spent the nine toughest days of their lives by covering the Lal Masjid siege have been in distress and visibly disturbed especially after winnessing the bullet-riddled walls and roofs of Madressah Hafsa and Lal Masjid. Two days after the operation, the government on Thursday opened the complex to the journalists who had been covering the operation from the media camp established away from the Lal Masjid. A journalist from the print media who was among the media team which first entered the compound after the operation said, “The arms and ammunition recovered from the militants should have been shown to the media as and where they were along with the militants’ bodies scattered in room after room.” He said the weapons were nicely decorated on a red carpet laid inside a room of the madressah. Another journalist said: “The bullet-riddled walls and roofs blackened from fire that had also burnt the doors of several rooms suggested as if all these had been set ablaze deliberately.
Another mediaperson said: “I am very sad to know the number of causalities; many houses are now going to be full of widows or orphans. So many lives have been lost, it was a great tragedy.
“I have seen twice a group of small students roaming on the premises of Madressah Hafsa. But when I woke up I was extremely disturbed by realising that it all was a dream.”
A female journalist said: “It was not less than a doomsday for me when I walked through the heavily-guarded battered compound amid smoke and stench. There was an inexplicable gloom in the air. Blood stains were also visible on the beddings and women’s clothes all rolled up and dumped into a corner in a number of rooms.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/16/nat11.htm |
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Promotions in APP |
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On special directives from Federal Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani, employees of national news agency APP have been promoted to next grades. There is also consideration to regularize contract employees.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-3)
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Journalist colony, CM forms seven member committee |
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Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervaize Elahi has constituted a seven member committee of senior journalists of different newspapers and electronic media to monitor and coordinate the matters of journalists Housing Scheme in Lohi Bher, Rawalpindi. According to press release, Rana Tahir Mehmood, Editor Jang Rawalpindi has been appointed head of the committee. The other members of committee are Farooq Fasial Khan, Editor Express, Sohail Iqbal, Editor On Line, Rana Qasir Bureau Chief, Daily Times, Mushtaq Minhas President Press club, Afzal Butt Secretary general press club and Mazher Tufail from Geo.
(News-14)
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Zia Shahid returns home |
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Khabrain Group of Newspapers Chief Executive Zia Shahid has returned home last night after a successful operation of his spinal cord. He was accompanied by his wife Begum Yasmin Shahid and Agro Communications Chief Executive Doctor Noshin Imran.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=6499&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Lal Masjid: Press and Constitution by Dr Farooq Hassan |
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“Pakistan’s press has done tremendously well in reporting and analyzing terrible atrocities and tragedies that seem to befall Pakistan regularly since the assumption to power of the present military junta. This time, however, even the English-language press, generally did not ask the obviously expected issues. At Harvard, and I assume elsewhere abroad as well, one had to read contemporary accounts and analysis in the British and Western press to comprehend the real issues surrounding this entire occurrence that lasted well over a week.”
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/july-2007/16/columns4.php |
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Advertising
The News editorial, “Regulating billboards” |
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With the destructive capability of these billboards having become all too obvious in the recent rains in the country’s biggest metropolis, it is hoped that necessary attention would be diverted to solving this long-neglected problem. Hopefully proper guidelines, rules and regulations would be formulated vis-a-vis the size and location/area where these billboards can be put up. A drive must also be undertaken for the removal of dangerous giant billboards. But this is easier said than done as according to a recent survey conducted by an NGO in Karachi, 13,000 of the 17,000 billboards in the city are illegal. A few cases were registered in the deaths that occurred in Karachi but it is unclear what their current status is. Also, it remains unclear whether any civic agency officials are going to be taken to task for what happened — given that the billboards could not have been installed without the permission of the various land-owning agencies. Remarks by officials to the effect that the blame is entirely that of the advertisers do not make any sense because any government agency cannot absolve itself of its primary supervisory or regulatory role merely by passing on the buck to the private sector — something that seems to have taken place in this matter. One hopes that the Karachi City District Government will not be party to the apparent doublespeak on this issue — with the billboards reappearing once the monsoon season is over.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=64548 |
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Billboard controversy refuses to end |
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Despite clear instructions from the Prime Minister that oversized hoardings have to be removed from the city’s streets, the City Government and Cantonment Boards alongwith other stakeholders are now playing a wait and see game over the issue. The PM had given the instructions after the death toll in last month’s rain and storms in which some billboards crashed onto people and property. The CDGK has become silent on the issue while the Cantonment Boards are looking at ways to ensure that this damage does not recur. At the same time, there is little talk of removing the billboards all together. Some citizens are saying that the corporate responsibility function of the advertisers can be questioned as well as most have CSR policies. Many people believe that the CDGK and other stakeholders are now bowing to commercial pressures to allow the reinstallation of the billboards. Civil society organizations say that the government is playing a delaying game as the huge and hazardous hoarding structures still stand at their places. Though the sheets have been removed from most of the hoardings, the existence of the larger than life frames on which the advertisements were mounted indicates that the advertisements will return after some time. Angry citizens want to know as to why the authorities haven’t gotten rid of these dangerous hoardings even after witnessing the destruction they had caused last month. |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=64601 |
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Movies
Khuda Kay Liye premieres |
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Shoaib Mansoor’s long-awaited film Khuda Kay Liye (In The Name of God) premiered on Sunday night at Karachi’s Prince cinema. This is Geo Films’ first project and an effort to revive the cinema industry in Pakistan. The film will open throughout Pakistan on July 20. The path-breaking film stars Shaan, Iman Ali, Naseeruddin Shah and Fawad Khan. An amazing mix of people came to watch the screening, including media professionals, artists, doctors, teachers, designers, Ulema, and even housewives among others. Among the celebrities present at the premiere included Javed Sheikh, Bushra Ansari, Behroze Sabzwari, Shakeel, Tapu Javeri, Saqib Malik, Deepak Perwani, Sonya Battla.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9041 |
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Copyrights
First-ever plagiarism policy next month: Removal from service proposed |
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The first policy on plagiarism will come into force in the country from next month, it is learnt here. “The Higher Education Commission has been working on the policy since long and its draft will be submitted to the HEC board for approval in its meeting scheduled for the first week of August,” HEC Adviser (quality assurance) Riaz Qureshi told Dawn on Sunday. He said the draft proposal had recommended that a plagiarist should be given a punishment not less than removal from service, a penalty that no university in the country is practising at present due to absence of any law or policy. Both teachers and research scholars of all varsities would be asked to ensure before submitting their work for publication that it must not contain any portion of plagiarism, he added.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/16/nat6.htm |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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