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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Tuesday August 28, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Journalist's kidnapping, police remain ignorant |
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A big protest and processions were taken out in various towns and cities of Badin and strike was also observed here in Talhar. It was carried out against the kidnapping of Haji Khan Lashari. The protesters staged a sit in and observed a token hunger strike and blocked the road for two hours. They showed their concern on the role of police as they remained ignorant in this matter. They said it was injustice with journalists that police did not take any action all these days to recover the kidnapped people.
(Daily Times-A3)
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Media Award
CNN announces fifth edition of Young Journalist Award |
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CNN has announced the launch of the fifth edition of the distinguished CNN Young Journalist Award (CNN YJA). Launched in India in 2003, CNN YJA recognizes and encourages quality journalism among young media professionals in Pakistan and India. CNN also announced two new categories this year - the CNN Photo Journalist Award and the CNN Journalist Award. The CNN Journalist Award introduced in connection with the 60th year of independence of Pakistan and India. Open to all Pakistani and Indian journalists irrespective of age, nominations are open to print/ online and television journalists covering broader and deeper issues in Pakistani or Indian society, with focus on factors of social development.
Making the announcement, CNN New Delhi bureau chief Phillip Turner said: "As a journalist myself, I am delighted to be associated with awards that honour responsible and quality journalism. While the CNN YJA is an attempt at nurturing promising journalistic potential, the CNN Journalist Award salutes the best of insightful Pakistani and Indian journalists and their efforts in voicing often unpopular issues and concerns, issues that often require great courage." Entries are invited from different media categories such as print, online, photographic and television. All entries to be eligible for the award should be published or aired between January 1, 2007 and September 30, 2007. The deadline for entries is October 12, 2007. Judging of the entries will take place in November by a prestigious panel, and winners of the annual award will be announced at a ceremony in New Delhi in December.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CityNewsT.aspx?dtlid=114986&catid=3 |
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Movies
Bahu Films honours writer for ‘Karvatein’ |
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Bahu Films Corporation held a ceremony for Agha Naveed, writer and producer of the telefilm ‘Karvatein’, at the Lahore Press Club on Monday. At the ceremony, chairman of Bahu Films Corporation Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti said the movie was based on a story of a young university student who became a call girl. He said though the subject of the movie was not novel, the dialogues and script were the strong points. He said Tauqeer Nasir, lead actor of the movie, outdid himself in playing the role of a man who met a call girl but did not take advantage of her.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\28\story_28-8-2007_pg7_41 |
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Television
Concern over shifting of Pashtu program from PTV World |
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ANP leader and provincial legislator Amir Rehman has expressed his deep anguish and concern over the shifting of Pashtu language program from PTV World and PTV-1 t PTV National, demanding of the authorities concerned to revise the decision forthwith.
(Nation-20)
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Demand for regularization of PTV resource persons |
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PTV resource persons have urged Minister for Information and Broadcast Muhammad Ali Khan Durrani to regularize resource persons of PTV working on contract for many years. Numbers of resource persons are working on contract for last 16 years. It is need of time to regularize them on urgent bases.
(Express-9)
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Theater
Need for student drama clubs stressed |
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A drama expert in dramatic art on Monday told a group of students of the Mass Communication Department of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology that theatre was the basic communication means for human beings. Dr S.N.M. Shahzad, Director of the School of Dramatic Arts, told a workshop, conducted by the department for its students of performing art communication, that “theatrical communication has its history as old as human intelligence.” Our ancestors would communicate with one another through this means well before the emergence of a spoken language, he said. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/28/local14.htm |
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Telecommunication
PTA warns of action against illegal SMS use |
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Senders of unsolicited, illegal or offensive messages on mobile phones will face strict action including prosecution, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Maj-Gen (Retd) Shahzada Alam Malik said Monday. "The PTA will not only block SIMs of senders of such messages but will also block their mobile sets," he told APP. The Short Message Service (SMS), also called text massaging, is a means of sending short messages on mobile phones. The PTA chairman said if the sender was involved in severe harassing activity through messages, legal proceedings could also be initiated against such a person.
Shahzada Alam said that PTA had held a meeting with all mobile companies and asked them to check those mobile numbers which were involved in sending objectionable messages to other phone users.
The chairman said all mobile operators in Pakistan including Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, Warid, Paktel and Instaphone have assured the Authority that they would take necessary action against any one involved in undesirable text massaging. Shahazada Alam urged the mobile phone subscribers receiving unwanted messages not to pass these to others in order to discourage the social evil.
Any one could contact the PTA on its helpline numbers and register a complaint, he said. Text message marketing is the most effective, direct and personal marketing tool available to businesses today. SMSs are cheap compared to direct mail and traditional advertising, and easier to remember than an email.
The PTA chief said millions of SMS messages were usually beamed on a single day on special occasions. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=114974&catid=17 |
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Cellular companies fleecing customers |
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has set the cellular companies free in charging their subscribers without getting approval of the authority, The Nation learnt on Monday.
According to rules, every cellular company is required get approval of the Authority before announcing its new package for increasing or decreasing call rates in accordance with the Pakistan Telecom policy set by the government. Talking to The Nation the PTA sources confirmed that the cellular companies did not seek PTA approval. “The cellular companies submit information of their new packages to the PTA and do not wait for the approval to announce their new packages” the sources said.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2007/28/localnews2.php |
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