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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday August 16, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Gilgit journalists complain of mistreatment |
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Presidents of the Gilgit Union of Journalists and the Gilgit Press Club have condemned the treatment meted out to over a dozen journalists by the officials of the Northern Areas administration on Tuesday in the Babusar Valley. GUJ president Imtiaz Ali Taj and GPC president Khurshid Ahmed in their separate statements said that journalists from Gilgit were invited by the Northern Areas administration to cover the polo tournament and festival in the hilly Babusar area in Diamer district but they were denied accommodation and other facilities in the remote area. They said as soon as the journalists reached the venue, which is 170kms south of Gilgit, the administration provided a ‘seedy room’ in a government rest house with two beds to 13 journalists.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/16/nat25.htm |
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Media Protest
Khabrain Editorial “Where has gone the freedom of journalism?” |
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Khabrain editorial comments, “The post reporter was detained on arrival in DHA to report public complaints against civic facilities. Government and DHA should take immediate notice of the harassment of a journalist by DHA officials.”
(Khabrain-Editorial)
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Media workshop
Media workshop by JI |
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Jamiat Islami (JI) will organize a media workshop on 15 -16th August 07 in Qiba auditorium Federal B Area Karachi. Leading JI leaders and senior journalists will address the workshop.
(Ummat-2)
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Media Miscellaneous
Allotment letters distributed for media colony |
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Chief Minister Punjab Chudhary Pervez Elahi has said that government has fulfilled its promise to media community. He distributed allotment letters of plots among journalists for media colony in Lahore. He addressed the function regarding distribution of allotment letters of plots to journalists. Punjab Information Secretary Ashfaq Gondal, Punjab Public Relations Director General Farrukh Shah, Chief Minister's Media Coordinator Ch Muhammad Iqbal and Lahore Press Club President Mohsin Goraya were also present on the occasion.
(Khabrian-1)
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Television
Column ‘PTV is shrinking’ |
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The Express columnist Saad ullah Jang Burq comments, “PTV programs should establish its own identity and reflect culture of soil. It should not follow foreign cultural trends.”
(Express-Column)
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Cinema
Cinema industry on decline |
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There was a time when visiting cinemas on weekends and an event celebration by the families was fashion and was rated among the positive and healthy entertainment for a family. That was a time when the crowd started experiencing 'house full' sign board display in the cinema. Unfortunately, that boom period has passed, leaving the cinema industry declining. Along the time with changing trends of society, the trends of cinema also faced lot of changes. The decent families lost in the pages of history and gradually replaced by low profile crowd busy exhaling cigarette smoke, and misbehaving with others. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=112747&catid=2 |
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Cinema need restoration |
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The News report, “It is really surprising that Islamabad, the capital city, has no cinema halls where good films can be screened for its residents to enjoy. So please CDA authorities do something.”
(News-19)
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Telecommunication
Telecom sector ows its growth to ‘true privatisation’ |
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The telecom sector owed its phenomenal growth and popularity to “true privatization”, said Ali Salman at the launch of his study Telecom Liberalisation in Pakistan: Implications for a Common Man here on Wednesday. The study was an initiative of Economic Freedom Network of Pakistan. Conducted by Ali Salman from a private setup called Development Pool, the study was supported by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung. The study focused on the extraordinary growth of the telecom sector in a short span of time highlighting the benefits that privatization and free market economy brought to the masses. According to its author, the telecom sector had gone through a restructuring phase in the last few years creating jobs, connecting people closely by bridging the gaps of communication as a result of positive regulatory policies and open competition.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/16/nat16.htm |
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Mobile firms told to speed up verification of consumer data |
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday directed mobile phone operators to speed up the process of streamlining the mobile phone users’ data and take strong measures against the franchises and sub-agents violating these instructions. According to a statement issued here, the PTA had called a meeting of representatives of all mobile phone companies on Wednesday to review progress on mobile phone customers’ antecedents’ verification.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/16/nat17.htm |
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Cellular co charging over inquiry service |
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The leading cellular services provider, Mobilink has started charging for its inquiry service on its prepaid packages without seeking any approval from the telecommunication regulator. Earlier,the service was offered free of cost,it is learnt. This service is being offered free of cost by most of the service providers to their customers worldwide. Sources concerned told The Nation that being a significant market player, Mobilink had to seek the PTA approval before putting the free directory inquiry service under charge. The sources said that Mobilink also violated the rules by launching its PCO. Meanwhile, the cellular services provider has been directed to immediately stop its project and tender an apology to the Authority for the violation committed by it. Besides it has been asked to formally apply to the Authority with tariff and then re-start the project after formal approval.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2007/16/index12.php |
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Obituary
Veteran poet Khalid Alig passes away |
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Veteran poet and journalist Khalid Alig died of lung cancer in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 82. Journalism was Alig’s another lifelong passion. He became a correspondent for the daily ‘Tanveer’, brought out from Lucknow by Chaudhry Khaleeq-uz-Zaman. He also remained associated with ‘Hamdam’, one of the most prominent newspapers of Lucknow.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/16/top13.htm |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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