media should have its ethics in news reporting and in disseminating new information, even for entertainment sake. on the contrary, some of the media outlest and magazines as well as news papers have bad influence on people by presenting misleading information.
how can Pakistanis change that? One, by boycotting such bad media and not endorsing it and two, by asking younger generation to become more sharply vigilent in disecting the media products.
other suggestions?
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how can Pakistanis change that? One, by boycotting such bad media and not endorsing it and two, by asking younger generation to become more sharply vigilent in disecting the media products.
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In order to bycott any such element one needs to be organized and unfortunately the only time people make an organized effort back home is either dur to political motives (including mobs of students in universities), or upon the incitation of the Mullah's, whcih often results in loss of life and damged property but of no real value ofcopurse.
as for me, If I had the resources, I would launch my own free newspaper on the lines of the metro , devoid of yellow jounalism of any kind, with special emphasis on investigative journalism.
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Pak-Media (99%) reflects strong left-leaning thoughts of our intellectuals. However I won't advocate gagging the media even it follows leftie ideals.
What we really need is the economic-right wingers and intellectuals who can counter lefties on the fallacies spread against Pakistan.
Fortunately, It can be done without a lot of money. I'd highly recommend starting blogs that advocate right-wing economic policies in Pakistan. You will see that the tide will turn against lefties in the next 5 years.
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^Can you please shed some light on the right wing policies?
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Here are the 3 areas to start with.
On economic policies the first and foremost is to overhaul the antiquated 200 years old strongly leftie tax system. It means reducing taxes on utilities (petrol, NG, water, and electricity). It means allowing people to amass as much wealth as they want. It means setting up NDRA like organization that will bring every working adult in the country into the tax system. Government subsidies will be available to only those who submit their tax return every year.
On Defense policies, setting up goals to increase the yearly budget to at least $15 billion by 2011. This is to reverse the leftie moves to reduce our military size and budget. By improving our tax system, we can easily increase our national revenues to $70 billions a year. That would allow us to spend $10 to 15 billion without going bakrupt.
Infrastructure development: Setting up at least 3000 miles of 4-6 lane toll roads with cooperation of local and international business community. This is to move away from leftie-style big government run road building and maintenance projects for national highways.
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^Thanks.
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We need a comprehensive overhaul of the way our journalists are reporting. Not only in the papers, but also on television. Open up any major newspaper, the quality of reporting does not rise beyond a police crime gazette you'd find in any other nation. It seems they've got nothing else to report, most of the news are just painful COMPLAIN items. On television, Geo plays favorites. A more neutral chanel was Indus News I noted was also a more upbeat channel and they did some really good programs with Mehreen Khan before she moved to BBC, her documentaries were really well researched and incisive. But then she was Harvard educated so it kind of figures, she knew how tod o her stuff. I guess you need to send most of these other so-called journalists back to school to pick up some primers on journalistic ethics and not to put the whole darn society in a state of COLLECTIVE DEPRESSION!
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Politicians, bureaucrats, army... everyone gets their share of criticism. By whom? these journos who believe that liberalism means acting against the interests of this country and blindly accepting whatever is fed to them by international media and the journos across the border, who have formed their unions with these journos.
I don't believe in gagging the press or electronic media even if they want to show us 'saas bhi pehle kabhi baho thee'. (Let's not forget the media blackout all 'freedom-loving' countries of the world observe when national security is threatened.) But it's time for sensible people to demand that electronic and print media put their stories in perspective and stop acting as a mafia. Media should be able to rise above their political affiliations and parochial mindsets and accept the responsiblity that comes with the freedom they have now. While we should try to tame (through our own criticism) these wishy washy liberals (and conservative demagogues), we should rein in the media/literature that spreads hate. It can be religious (sectarian) literature or it can be in the form of newspapers that are published on small scale, but are tools to strengthen the causes of the fringe elemenst of Pakistani society involved in extremist, violent or subversive activities.
If there is no sacred cow for media, media should not be a sacred cow either. The problem is that those who want to criticize media enterprize of Pakistan are never given any platform to voice their opinions. Criticizing media doesn't mean supporting government on every issue.
It's time to find ways to critique the critic... You wanna criticize everyone, you should be up for criticism as well.
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During the last 6 years the media in Pakistan has achieved freedoms that it has never had before, especially as this government (unlike previous one's) granted so many licenses for private channels. With so many new newspapers and channels having popped up in this period, and so much competition, editors have found it hard to find good journalists.
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^ well said. But with freedom comes RESPONSIBILITY, which I'm sorry a lot of the journalists totally lack! That temple demeloition story which turned out to be FALSE is only too recent an example.
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Yes, and another example was when certain papers like The Nation categorically stated that Shaukat Aziz's wife was a Jewish woman called "Gloria Cohen Aziz", who had strong links to the neo-cons in the US adminstration. They were all fanciful lies, as his wife is a Pakistani named Rukhsana whose family are originally from UP, India!
The papers who made these sort of damaging allegations never apologized, as far as I rememeber.
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media freedom is all relative in Pakistan in the end, I mean certain media with the governments support has routinely smeared peoples reputations. The attacks on Imran Khans wife before the '02 elections were quite classic examples of that...as far as responsibility is concerned, it's well known that the government stopped the creation of a truly independant Press council ...even now the so called media freedom is very deceptive. Countless investigative journalists have their phones tapped routinely and have sleuths keeping an eye on them..the reason being the "agencies" want to keep tabs on their party (the PML-Q)
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Playboy-turned-Maulvi Imran sahib had enough skeletons in his closets to begin with. Why to blame media for it.
Anyway individuals may be helped or harmed by media. But the big question is whether Pak media is helping Pakistan or not.
So far the leftie media has truly hurt Pakistan. Still they should be allowed to preach Kommie ideas. But we ought to develop anti-Kommie media outlets to balance some of the anti-Pak rhetoric by the lefties.
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On economic policies the first and foremost is to overhaul the antiquated 200 years old strongly leftie tax system. It means reducing taxes on utilities (petrol, NG, water, and electricity). It means allowing people to amass as much wealth as they want. It means setting up NDRA like organization that will bring every working adult in the country into the tax system. Government subsidies will be available to only those who submit their tax return every year.
On Defense policies, setting up goals to increase the yearly budget to at least $15 billion by 2011. This is to reverse the leftie moves to reduce our military size and budget. By improving our tax system, we can easily increase our national revenues to $70 billions a year. That would allow us to spend $10 to 15 billion without going bakrupt.
Infrastructure development: Setting up at least 3000 miles of 4-6 lane toll roads with cooperation of local and international business community. This is to move away from leftie-style big government run road building and maintenance projects for national highways.
right on, my friend!
thanks,
dush
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double agencies, which ever way u look...
what can some women do?
just imagine.
The papers who made these sort of damaging allegations never apologized, as far as I rememeber.
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Its universally known that Imran Khan was being smeared as a zionist agent by Mushys boys anti..as far as skeletons in the closet, lets not get into that ..from Ayub till Mush the dictators have skeletons that make people like Imran look like a angels of virtue.
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The papers who made these sort of damaging allegations never apologized, as far as I rememeber.
It might be possible that he has two wives. My buddy Alamgir has 3- or it might be a printing mistake and he would have printed "US" instead of "UP"- they aren't that far
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You mean skeletons as white as Sita? Then may you are privy to the bedroom of Musharraf (unlike many of us).
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You have to be kidding. Shaukat Aziz has one wife - Rukhsana Aziz - which sounds nothing like “Gloria Cohen Aziz”. UP is far, far away from the US. It was trashy and vidicative journalism by the likes of the Nation and Satribune, which made such pathetic claims weeks before he was about to become PM in late 2004. This is what was written:-
*His spouse, Mrs. Gloria Cohen Aziz is a wealthy, well connected socialite with an interest in many private firms of consultants as well as security contractors for the US government. These contractors and consultants have worked in Afghanistan since 1977; they have also worked in Pakistan, in Russia not to mention Iraq. She has travelled to Pakistan regularly to case the joint, as the Americans say, with the State Department spouse of a well known former US Ambassador to Pakistan who oversaw the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The Americans are so keen to see her installed in Pakistan that they have left Iraq two days early to facilitate her entry into the country-an indication of the importance of the job she, not any PM is expected to do in Pakistan. Her arrival at the Prime Minister’s house in Pakistan should be a slap in the face of all those Muslims who have been horrified and disgusted by the humiliation and torture of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and the hate crimes against Muslim citizens of the United States. *
Shaukat Aziz showed great maturity when he did not dignify this with a reply, as the world over know what the actual truth is. :k: But Ikhram Seghal sent the shameless Nation an email that reads as follows:-
*Gloriously wrong *
Kindly refer to Shahwar Junaid’s article “the ultimate deal”. While deferring to the learned writer’s opinion, to each his (or her) own, some pertinent facts are “gloriously” wrong. Shaukat’s wife is not “Gloria Cohen” but “Rukhsana” and unlike the mythical “Gloria Cohen”, an invention of a really imaginative mind, Rukhsana is anything but a businessperson. Daughter of one of our finest civil servants, SS Iqbal Hussain, now retired, Rukhsana is a fine, upright person who is a low-key personality without any ego whatsoever, the perfect example of what a Pakistani housewife should be like. What to talk of Shaukat, all of Shaukat’s friends are proud of the exemplary manner she conducts herself. I think we owe it to our readers to at least get our record straight.
IKRAM SEHGAL, Karachi, via e-mail, July1.
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^ But yaar, Nation is a newspaper of repute and they can't make a claim like this one just like that.. It might be possible that he might have married during his stay in the US. Who is this Ikram Sehgal? Sounds like a hindu name..