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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Sunday August 19, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
No case filed yet against Police officials responsible for torturing journalist |
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In spite court orders, Chakwal police has not yet registered any case against police officials responsible for torturing a journalist. Journalists alleged that Police was patronizing the offenders. Journalists associations of district Chakwal have announced to lodge protest against delay in filing the case.
(Express-3)
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Media Miscellaneous
Media should stress more on our ethical values |
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Media nowadays has become more commercialized more entertaining than thought provoking medium. This was stated by Vice Chancellor Riphah University Professor Dr.Anis Ahmed while addressing the prize distribution ceremony of 5 weeks course held by Riphah Institute of Media studies. He urged the participants to stay out of customary trend prevalent in our media and set a new tone for future.
(News-20)
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PPP negates media surveys |
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The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Saturday rejected the findings of recently conducted media surveys related to the political parties and their popularity ratings, describing them as random and inaccurate.
In the run-up to the country's Independence Day, a number of media outlets routinely conduct random surveys. It is widely agreed that these surveys cannot be described as representative of anything but the particular readers of a particular media outlet of a particular day. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=113223&catid=17&date=08/19/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Media urged to highlight missing persons case |
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The member of Pakistan Federal Union of journalists and All Pakistan Newspapers Confederation (APNEC) Saturday visited the hunger strike camp of Baloch Women Panel and expressed solidarity with them. Around one hundred working journalists and newspaper employees led by Huma Ali visited camp set up in front of Quetta Press club.
(Nation-8)
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Copyrights
Plagiarists to be sacked, says HEC |
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A meeting of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) held in Islamabad convened by HEC Chairman Dr Attaur Rehman presented the recent programmes of HEC including the E-books programme Saturday. A detailed presentation was made by HEC Executive Director Dr S Sohail H Naqvi, describing how the programmes of HEC are resulting in enhancement of high quality research out put, improving standards of education, enhancing access and making university education relevant to national needs.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=113215&catid=17&date=08/19/2007&fcatid=14 |
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IPR vital to local software industry |
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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection drives the growth of Pakistan’s advanced manufacturing as well as its local software, the US Charge d Affairs Petre Bodde said in Islamabad. He said Intellectual Property Rights can be defined as ‘law that establish and maintain ownership rights to Intellectual Property the principle forms of IP protection are patents, trademarks, and copyrights.”
(Nation-14)
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Internet
Chatform for all by Amna Yousaf |
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“MIRC -- the most common and widely-used chat software in Pakistan -- is attracting people from all professions and ages.” The traffic of visitors in the channel is increasing day by day but the modesty is becoming lousier," said operator of the popular 'Pakistan channel', who preferred to remain anonymous and works in the Sui Northern Gas Company. He said elder persons usually don't care about ethics which could be harmful for teenagers and pollute the channel's lively ambience.” |
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http://jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2007-weekly/nos-19-08-2007/dia.htm#5 |
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Telecommunication
PTCL plans IPTV service in Oct |
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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) plans to launch an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service in October, Director General of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Dr. Abdul Jabbar said Saturday. "PTCL has won the first license to launch IPTV service which will be a landmark development in the country's telecom industry," he said. He said other companies that meet the set criteria would also be issued such licenses. He said that the authority would monitor the IPTV service on the basis of the parameters being followed regarding electronic channels. IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered by using internet protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection. A general definition of IPTV is television content that, instead of being delivered through traditional broadcast and cable formats, is received by the viewer through the technologies used for computer networks. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CorpNews.aspx?dtlid=113255&catid=8&date=08/19/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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