I am sharing this recent news about our own indian tv channel making a blunder…
share if you remember such blunders…
Indian media on Sunday mistakenly used an image of the late MPA Manzar Imam for an alleged suspect involved in the recent blasts in Hyderabad, India, Express Newsreported.
At least 18 people were killed and over 50 were wounded in multiple blasts in the crowded Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad on Thursday.
Imam, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was killed in a targeted attack on January 17, which the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for.
An Indian news channel aired a program identifying eight alleged terrorist suspects who are purported to have been behind the attacks in Hyderabad.
The news channel was referring to a member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), however, used Imam’s photo. The IM member was allegedly the “mastermind” behind the bombings.
Indian television channel India TV has apologised for inadvertently using the photo of slain Sindh MPA Manzar Imam, Express News reported. Express News reported early on Tuesday morning that India TV, who used the image of MPA Manzar Imam, mistaking it for an alleged Indian Mujahideen member of the same name and believed to be involved in the Hyderabad twin blasts last week.
Earlier on Monday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik had admonished the television channel for using the image of the former MQM MPA. Malik had then demanded that the channel apologise to Pakistan for wrongly using the image.
In other news, the Indian media is reporting the PCB has requested the BCCI access to the cricketeer Smt. Mithali Raj to shore up their batting against fast bowling. Mithali is also expected to bowl faster than Sri Tanveer, thus providing a 2 for 1 benefit.
Indian TV channels and many of their newspaper (home ground or across the border) are the worse of all if anyone looks for the authenticity of a ‘news’.
Being sloppy is not even close to their unprofessional acts.
Pakistani TV channels and many of their newspaper (home ground or across the border) are the worse of all if anyone looks for the authenticity of a ‘news’.
With more than 70,000 newspapers and over 500 satellite channels in several languages, Indians are seemingly spoilt for choice and diversity.
India is already the biggest newspaper market in the world - over 100 million copies sold each day. Advertising revenues have soared. In the past two decades, the number of channels has grown from one - the dowdy state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan - to more than 500, of which more than 80 are news channels.
But such robust growth, many believe, may have come at the cost of accuracy, journalistic ethics and probity.
The media has taken some flak in recent months for being shallow, inaccurate and sometimes damagingly obtrusive. Former Supreme Court judge and chairman of the country’s Press Council, Markandey Katju, fired the first broadside, exhorting journalists to educate themselves more. Predictably, it provoked a sharp reaction from the media.
Pakistani media told how to do its job. Is Pakistan ( and its media) being held hostage by Religious extremists. Is this what a " free" press looks like when unduly influenced by religious dogma?
Souhtie: None of your links show any inaccuracies of the reporting by Pakistani media.
First one was bashing a reporter for reporting which is unfortunately **true **and other criticized Pemra for asking media to keep public sentiment in mind.
“A Pemra official told AFP that the **regulator had not banned Valentine’s Day program broadcast, **but instead issued a request to channels in the wake of public complaints.”
That means Pemra is NOT media.
Please read before posting, get educated about what you post and not be so biased and argumentative.
Bias in Pakistani media against progressives and minorities. Shameful.
Goes to show too much jingoism and beating up on the neighbir is foolish. There is good and bad everywhere. Some people make it their full time pursuit to dig up dirt on their neighbor. Two can play this STUPID game.
they are more like the jokers of the media scene…who needs comedy when you have Indian media to provide you with the entertainment!!