Sunday November 26, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

Print media journalists asked to improve skills

The Journalists of print media should improve their professional skills for survival in the field which has witnessed a sharp change due to increasing number of TV channels. This was the crux of a one-day interactive session between journalists arranged by Pakistan Tobbaco Company at Akora Khattak. Moderator of the session was Mohmmad Malick, prominent journalist who is currently communications advisor to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and SECP. The title of the dialogue was ‘Is it time to rethink Journalism?'
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=70153&catid=2&
date=11/26/2006&fcatid=14

‘Urdu limited to Bangladesh campuses'

A group of journalists from Bangladesh has voiced its concern over India's border incursions, accusing New Delhi of being guilty of violating international law governing borders' sanctity. During an inter-active dialogue with the local media people at Karachi Press Club on Friday, they said Indian soldiers on several occasions had violated the border treaty which was “a cause for great concern” among the Bangladeshi people. There was an in-depth talk with special reference to the growing threats Bangladesh faces from radical groups and extremists. The journalists from Bangladesh on a trip to Pakistan include Manjurul Islam of Daily Naya Diganta, Abdul Hai Siddiqui of Bangla Vision, Mahfuz-ur-Rahman of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Brig General (retd) Shaeedul Anam Khan of The Daily Star and Abu Rush of Jai Jaidin.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4

Taliban holding two Pakistani journalists

The Taliban movement in Afghanistan said on Saturday it was holding two Pakistani journalists because they were not carrying travel documents, after a report said the pair had been kidnapped. The journalists would be delivered to the border, possibly today (Sunday), said Mohammad Hanif, a purported spokesman for the movement. “We've taken them because they were not carrying any travel documents. But we'll leave them near Pakistan border tomorrow or sometime,” Hanif told AFP. A newspaper reported one of its journalists had called his family to say he and a colleague, Qamar Yousafzai, were detained by the Taliban in Helmand on Nov 21.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp

Taliban holding two Pakistani journalists

The Taliban in Afghanistan said Saturday it was holding two Pakistani journalists because they were not carrying travel documents, after a report said the pair had been kidnapped. The journalists would be delivered to the border, possibly tomorrow (Monday), said Muhammad Hanif, a purported spokesman for the Taliban.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_Fb_ShortNews.aspx?fbshortid=1402&
fcatid=14&date=11/26/2006&bcatid=14&bstatus=archive

Taliban detain two Pakistani journalists

The Taliban in Afghanistan said on Saturday they were holding two Pakistani journalists because they had not been carrying travel documents. An earlier report said the pair had been kidnapped.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/26/top17.htm

Another suspect held in journalist's murder case

An employee of a food outlet in Islamabad was picked up by the local police for interrogation in connection with the murder of senior journalist Malik Mohammad Ismail Khan, sources told Dawn here on Saturday. A man, in his 20s, was picked up by Kohsar police last week for interrogation. But so far the police have remained unsuccessful in obtaining any vital information from him.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/26/nat14.htm

FAST holds ‘Media Career Day'

A 'Media Career Day' was organised at the FAST National University Saturday to create awareness among the students about job opportunities in electronic and print media. A large number of students from various colleges and universities of the City visited the FAST campus where different organisations of print and electronic media and private radio channels had set up their stalls providing information to the students about career opportunities in field of media.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=70172&
catid=3&date=11/26/2006&fcatid=14

FEATURE

Less confusion, less uncertainty

By Dr Mehdi Hasan

Gate-keeping in media is all about the prerogative of a journalist -- to decide what is to be published or broadcast. If the media person feels that a particular news or comment would result in more harm than good for the society, he is, according to journalistic traditions within his or her rights to kill that information.The first lesson to a cub-reporter or to an apprentice sub-editor by their seniors is that avoid filing news that have already been published or broadcast in your own paper/channel or somewhere else as it has lost the news value.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2006-weekly/nos-26-11-2006/dia.htm#7

Art requires more

By Quddus Mirza

For some people, the camera is not just a tool but a sign of the ultimate triumph of western art, particularly the art of painting. In the words of American critic Clement Greenberg, the painting which is moveable (in the language of art criticism, an easel painting) cuts "the illusion of a box-like cavity into the wall behind it" and organises "within this cavity the illusion of forms, light, and space, all more or less according to the current rules of verisimilitude."

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2006-weekly/nos-26-11-2006/enc.htm#3

Language that conceals language

Zia Mohyeddin column

The language of diplomacy has always been double-edged. Speech, as Tellyrand said, is given to man, to conceal his thoughts. Take the lead story in your morning newspaper which tells you that "there has been a full and frank exchange of views" between the Indian and the Pakistani foreign ministers. What it means, actually, is that there is total disagreement between the two sides, but they dare not announce it.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2006-weekly/nos-26-11-2006/lit.htm#3

Letters to Editor

Journalist killed

WHEN I read the news item ‘Journalist found brutally murdered' (Dawn, Nov 2) I was shocked that what is happening in Pakistan. Yet another brave journalist is murdered for writing and speaking boldly. Why is there no security for people who are speaking and writing the truth?

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/26/letted.htm#8

COMPILED by: Sajid Gondal, Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan (www.internews.org.pk)

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