Media ethics Archive

This is how media respects Hindus – any media ethics? – Kapil Dev:   Just watch this few seconds clip of a “mazahia” TV show “Sawa Teen” aired on Neo Tv on April 08, 2016 and then give your feedback. This is how our TV programs show respect towards Hindu minority living
ایگزیکٹ اور بول کے بارے میں معظم رضا تبسم کے چار سوال: پہلا سوال: کیا ریاستی اداروں کو یہ اختیار حاصل ہے کہ وہ از خود کسی کی بڑھتی ہوئی دولت کی تحقیقات کر سکیں؟ ضرور ہے۔ اُس کے لیے کئی ادارے ہیں۔ جن کی ذمہ داری ہے۔ دوسرا سوال: کیا
Murder of ISI officer in Sargodha: An example of how Pakistani media constructs false Sunni Shia binary to hide Deobandi terrorism: This post is a very good example of how media constructs false Sunni Shia binary to hide or obfuscate Deobandi terrorism against Sunni Sufis/Barelvis and Shias. In Pakistan, Sunni Barelvis are as much a victim of Deobandi terrorist groups like
صحافتی مہارت برائے فروخت: نواز شریف حکومت سے رشوت لینے والے صحافیوں کی فہرست منظر عام پر آگئی – عامر حسینی: ایک انٹیلی جنس ایجنسی کی رپورٹ کے مطابق نواز شریف حکومت نے اپنے لئے فضا بہتر بنانے کے لیے پاکستان کے مایہ ناز صحافیوں میں بیس کروڑ روپے کی رقم تقسیم کی اور یہ رقم جن صحافیوں میں تقسیم
Greed and desire: The new face of Ramazan? – by Shyema Sajjad:     Remember everything your parents, grandparents, maulvi sahab and Islamiyat teacher taught you about Ramazan? Now try and forget it please because there seems to be no room for those teachings anymore in this country. Tune in to
شیعہ -سنّی تعلقات بارے چند فکری مغالطے اور تاریخ کا گمشدہ ورق -از قلم غلام عباس: نوٹ :غلام عباس نے سماجی رابطے کی ویب سائٹ فیس بک پر اپنی وال پر ایک مضمون پوسٹ کیا جو چشم کشا ہے اور شیعہ -سنّی تعلقات کے تاریخی اور ثقافتی ہم آہنگی پر روشنی ڈالتا ہے اور اس
LUBP Exclusive: A conversation between Carlotta Gall, author of “The Wrong Enemy” and Ali Abbas Taj, LUBP editor: Editor’s Note:  On behalf of the LUBP team, I would like to thank Carlotta Gall for taking out the time to speak with us.  Pakistanis need to face up to differing viewpoints and in that regard, Ms. Gall’s latest
Hurting Pakistan for petty, personal matters – yes that’s what Mir Shakil and Jahangir Siddiqui do!: In yet another example of how personal wars are being played out in the media at the expense of the corporate and investment sector in Pakistan, Daily Times, an independent newspaper has come up with a report in its
Third national #media conference by Individualland @individualland: The two-day of media conference entitled “Evolution of Media: requirements, facts and fears from a free, independent and responsible media’s (FIRM) perspective” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists
CT Chief Minister Najam Sethi and the question of conflict of interest: Najam Sethi fan club: Raza Rumi, Ejaz Haider, Nadeem Paracha, Marvi Sirmed, Mehmal Sarfraz, Saleem Ali etc Independent critics: Nazir Naji, Farrukh Sohail Goindi, Rashid Rahman, Mazhar Abbas, Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, Abdullah Tariq Sohail, Adnan Farooq, Nusrat Javeed, Omar
Junaid Jamshed and Nida Yasir: cost of TRPs is lifestyle and culture: SOURCE: This blog post first appeared here. I was alerted to Junaid Jamshed’s nonsense on Nida Yasir’s Good Morning Pakistan show by this timely written piece by Ayesha Mir. She writes: I knew this could not be all and
Media Ray Media – by Hussain Jan:
Nasim Zehra’s resignation: Rind ke rind rahey hath se jannat na gai – by Danial Lakhnavi: Related post: Nasim Zehra’s resignation, a proper class act نیوز چینلز پر ٹاک شوز کی میزبانی کے لئے ٹی وی کیمرے کے سامنے بیٹھنے والے فن کاروں کو کئی طرح کے فرائض انجام دینے ہوتے ہیں، جیسے اٹھارہ کروڑ
Alleged bribe by Malik Riaz: In response to Marvi Sirmed’s plea of innocence: Related post: Lifestyle Liberals and Political Liberals: Is LUBP a hurdle in the way of unity of liberals? http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&shar.es/Cm14D Disclaimer: LUBP does not endorse the impression that any journalist took bribes from real estate tycoon Malik Riaz. Readers can
Nasim Zehra’s resignation, a proper class act: Related posts: LUBP archive on Nasim Zehra Context June 14, 2012: The upheaval at Dunya TV continued Thursday as Nasim Zehra, the channel’s Director Current Affairs resigned over a leaked video of behind the scene conversations of a special
Thank you, Malik Riaz, for revealing names of for-sale anchors and columnists: For the last four years, LUBP and various sister blogs (Pakistan Blogzine, Al Ufaq, Ahmadiyya Times, Khyber Watch, Baloch blogs etc) have been trying to educate Pakistan’s middle class that majority of journalists and anchors in mainstream media (both
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani concludes successful visit to UK: وزیراعظم یوسف رضا گیلانی کا دورہ برطانیہ کئی حوالوں سے انتہائی اہمیت کا حامل ہے۔ داخلی سطح پر یہ دورہ اس وقت ہورہا ہے جب پاکستان کی تاریخ میں پہلی مرتبہ ایک جمہوری حکومت اپنی پانچ سالہ آئینی معیاد
Misrepresented: Pakistan needs an image makeover -by Ali Wahab: DUBAI: “Ali, why doesn’t Pakistan get any good press? There must be something good happening in Pakistan? After all, it’s a nation of 175 million!” This was the theme of a discussion with a senior colleague after a transaction
CJ’s next frontier: Sir who can we turn to if not you?: I try my best not to read The News, as it is an anti government, pro-PML-N, pro-military and pro-CJ newspaper. Whenever I do, there is one reason or the other to write something about it. In The News, of
The introspection of TV shows: جہاں میڈیا معاشرے کاایک آئینہ ہے، تو دوسری جانب یہ راۓ عامہ بنانے اور بگاڑنے کا سب سے بڑا زریعہ بھی ہے۔ ہمارے ہاں جو اجتمائ انسانی رویے اورسیاسی اقدار ہیں، ان کی تعمیرو تخریب میں میڈیا کا اہم
Hectic political developments & irresponsible talk show hosts -by Saeed Ahmed: سرد ترین موسم میں اسلام آباد کے سیاسی درجہ حرارت میں شدید اضافے کی گرمی کو پورے ملک کے عوام محسوس کررہے ہیں۔ تیزی سے بدلتے ہوئے اعصاب شکن حالات اور واقعات نے عوام کے ذہنوں کو بری طرح
The Express Tribune Editorial: Is the ‘Get Zardari’ campaign democratic?: President Asif Ali Zardari got sick and had to go to the UAE to get medically looked after. The media began to talk most blatantly about his ‘exit’ from Pakistan without realising what it would look like to anyone
Media and rise in intellectual infertility -by Shafqat Aziz: Related Article: National media conference -by Arshad Mahmood مےڈےا اور بڑھتا ہوا فکری بانجھ پن عہد حاضر مےں مےڈےا اپنی تمام دوسری جہتوں کے ساتھ بعض بنےادی اصولوں پر عموماً کاربند دکھائی دےتا ہے۔ مےڈےا عام شہرےوں کو قومی
National media conference – by Arshad Mahmood: National Media Conference: The two-day of media conference entitled “Pakistan Media: Present and Future” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists from all parts of the country including a
National Media Conference: Pakistan’s media, present & future: The two-day of media conference entitled “Pakistan Media: Present and Future” arranged by Individualland(IL) in collaboration with Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF), drew a large number of journalists from all parts of the country including a strong representation from
Erosion of press freedom in Britain – by Shiraz Paracha: A British regularity body that is partly funded by the British government has ruled that a popular English language international news TV network with millions of viewers be taken off the broadcasting platform. In other words Press TV is banned
Why Pakistan’s media needs a code of conduct?: Pakistan’s media landscape has exploded over the last decade. But it is still the most dangerous place on earth to be a journalist and there are now calls for a strict code of conduct to protect the press and
Media must become voice of a billion, not just represent urban population: Here is a piece of advice from ex-Indian President Abdul Kalam to Indian media. The advice is equally applicable to Pakistanis media, which (dominated by right wingers and fake liberals) remains urban, middle-class centric and sesnational events-focused. Abdul Kalam’s
Rampant Plagiarism: Here is something from my timeline: “@saeedshah Sana Bucha’s column also lifted the headline and the “sulk” theme from my Economist piece” Its just highlights disappointing and unfortunate standard of our media that a renowned anchor would plagiarise this blatantly in a national
Fard launched: Individualland is literally a cyber space where the world’s largest minority, the individual is considered the most important. Media is called the mirror of a society. But do our media work on this principle? The grotesque images of people
Budget coverage misses the mark: What on earth is ‘relief’? – By Farooq Tirmizi:   Source: Express Tribune By Farooq Tirmizi Published: June 6, 2011 For the journalists who cried themselves hoarse that the federal government’s budget for fiscal year 2012 contained no ‘relief’ for the masses, I have a few questions: what
PEMRA Takes Notice of Irresponsible Reporting / Talk Shows by TV Channels: PEMRA has issued notices to Geo, Dawn News, Dunya News and News One for their irresponsible talks shows in the aftermath of PNS Mehran attack. The most damning aspect is against Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk televised an interview of
Our Media Role: ‘Destructive or Critical’ – by Ahsan Abbas Shah:
Emotionalism, extremism and Pakistani media – by Rameez Karamat Ali: “I am standing in a victim’s house where YOU CAN SEE an eight year old and the only son of a local teacher is killed in suicide attack, yesterday. Now you can see the situation here and we are
Where Ansar Abbasi and Mosharraf Zaidi converge: “PPP killed Sherry Rehman’s bill”: Related articles: Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative A plan well executed Charter of irresponsible journalism in Pakistan in 2011 It is always entertaining to witness the little asset talk of the FCS eleven on Twitter
Kinnaird’s FM 97.6 inaugurated, a very positive development: Democracy and free media are co-related; democracy is impossible without a free and responsible media while the concept of a free media is impossible without democracy. Democracy and free media reinforce each other. Huge credit goes to Pakistan Peoples
Salman Taseer’s murder and the footsoldiers of media – by Qudsia Siddiqui: Related posts: Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative “The blaming the victim brigade” and Shahbaz Bhatti’s murder An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid Saeed “Civil” Society must stop blaming the PPP: A rebuttal
PPP’s Hukoomat Jaa Rahee hay – A wish more than analysis: I was looking forward to the program called the “Great Debate” on Geo News last evening. The debate was to be moderated by Iftikhar Ahmed and Hamid Mir. Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s President Saeed Shafiq was the
LUBP Interview with Olaf Kellerhoff, Resident Representative Pakistan at Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom: Related Interviews:   LUBP Exclusive: A critical interview with Nadeem F. Paracha LUBP Interview with Kamran Shafi LUBP Interview with Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (Part I) LUBP Interview with Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (Part II)   Brief Introduction: LUBP is pleased
Misinforming Pakistan -by Huma Imtiaz: As 2010 comes to a close, Pakistan’s journalists are in mourning for their colleagues that have been taken from them in incidents of bombings and targeted killings. At least eight journalists have been killed in Pakistan this year, with