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Pakistan Media Mirror |
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Media Mirror: 27-09-2007 |
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PEMRA tells TV channels not to discuss matters before courts |
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• Pemra warns against debate on sub judice issues
• Says anchors are moderators not judges
• They ask leading questions and pass judgments
• Transgression of law and code cannot be allowed
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has directed TV channels not to air programmes, talk shows, discussions and interviews debating or commenting on sub-judice issues, including those being dealt with by the Supreme Court. This is not only objectionable but also against the terms and conditions of licences issued to the channels, a PEMRA spokesman said in a press release. He said the authority issued this directive after it observed that in some TV programmes various speakers were called and leading questions were asked by the anchors, who then passed judgments. Anchors are moderators and not judges, he said. “In certain cases anchors discuss topics they are neither qualified nor authorised to,” he added. The spokesman said that such practices were in contravention of the PEMRA code of conduct for media broadcasters and the spirit of various court directions. The authority, as a regulator, has always believed in “self-regulation” by the electronic media but there are certain norms, limits and bounds beyond which “freedom becomes anarchy and licentiousness,” the spokesman said.
(Express-8) (Jang-1) (Nawa-i-Waqt-1)
(BBC Urdu),
(Daily Times),
(The Post),
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Bar
Only official media to cover filing of papers |
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The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday barred private TV channels as well as the print media from covering the filing of nomination papers for the presidential election on Thursday. EC secretary Kunwar Muhammad Dilshad said in a statement that only authorised persons, including the presidential candidates, their proposers and seconders and authorised agents, would be allowed to enter the EC secretariat. Only the state-run PTV will be allowed to cover the event. From the security point of view, he said, mobile phones, cameras, handbags, laser key chains, calculators and batteries would not be allowed inside the EC secretariat. Mr Dilshad also referred to rule 4 of the Presidential Election Rules, 1988, which read: “At any time before noon on the day fixed for nomination any member of the Majlis-e-Shoora (parliament) or of a provincial assembly may nominate for election as president a person qualified for election as president by delivering to the presiding officer a nomination paper, signed by himself as proposer and by another member of the Majlis-e-Shoora (parliament) or, as the case may be assembly as seconder, together with a statement signed by the person nominated that he consents to the nomination: provided that no person shall subscribe, whether as proposer or as seconder, more than one nomination paper at any one election”.
(Jang-1) |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/27/top18.htm |
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Ban
PEMRA seals two illegal FM radio stations |
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The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has sealed two illegal FM radio stations in the Mashugar areas of Badabher village in Peshawar and Madrassa Allahoakbar in Mardan, a PEMRA press release said on Wednesday. The PEMRA office in Peshawar has taken off air 170 such illegal broadcasters. The authority has also confiscated 94 transmitters and antennas, the statement said.
(News-3) |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\27\story_27-9-2007_pg7_22 |
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Media in Courts
Contractual journalists exempted from test |
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The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench Wednesday exempted contractual reporters and sub editors of Association Press of Pakistan (APP) from reappearing in written test to be held for the same posts today (Thursday) September 27.
(News-5)
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Media Protest
Dawn Editorial “Questions for the media” |
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“Legality aside, do such ‘debates’ add to the knowledge of viewers or swamp them with misinformation? Are members of the media, unwittingly or otherwise, becoming a party to propaganda? Is the media bringing clarity to public discourse or confusing matters further? It goes without saying that we vehemently oppose any curbs on freedom of expression. But these are important questions that the media would do well to ponder. There is no room in ethical journalism for media trials and character assassination, the very traits that the public and the independent media have long deplored in state-run television. True, the electronic media is still in its infancy in Pakistan but it is time it evolved its own code of conduct that incorporates the basic tenets of responsible journalism. Media ethics need not be an oxymoron.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/27/ed.htm#2 |
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The News Editorial “Criticism, again” |
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“A senior government official -- this time the attorney general -- has criticized the electronic media again. Speaking before the Supreme Court on Sept 25 during a hearing of petitions challenging the president's retention of the post of army chief, the attorney general blamed the electronic media for what happened to Ahmed Raza Kasuri, a lawyer for the government. One of the members of the bench rightly said that the media should be careful on matters that are sub judice and that perhaps a code of ethics or greater degree of self-regulation are needed to be exercised by the electronic media itself in such matters. However, to blame the media for what happened to the government lawyer, when a rival blackened his face on Sept 24, is to point culpability where none exists. Of course, what happened to the gentleman cannot be condoned on any account and needs to be condemned, but to say that the media is responsible for it is to ignore the obvious.” |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=73729 |
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Journalists protest against ECP |
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Journalists on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for baring them from entering its premises. On the call of the RawalpindiIslamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ), a large number of journalists from the print and electronic media participated in the demonstration.
They called for freedom of the press and urged the government to take the decision back. “We will not accept any tyrannical tactic of the government,” they said, adding that the country’s image abroad was being distorted by restrictions on the media. “The government should stop it,” they added. RIUJ President Afzal Butt, Secretary-General Ishfaq Sajid, Senior Vice-President Shehryar Khan, senior journalists C.R. Shamsi, Fozia Shahid and others spoke on the occasion.
(Dawn-19) (News-9)
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Nawa-i-Waqt staffers’s house burgled |
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Unknown persons on the other day burgled into the apartment of senior staff reporter Nawa-i-Waqt, Sohil Abdul Nasir situated at Asghar Mall Rad, Rawalpindi and searched papers. At that time Sohail was out of home and engaged in his office in Islamabad.
(Nation-13)
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Meeting discusses expansion of press club |
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A meeting of Noshehra press club was here Wednesday with its president Mushtaq Paracha in the chair. The meeting discussed construction of the second storey of the club building at the cost of 0.5 million.
(News-3)
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PAL to translate US literature |
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The Pakistan Academy of Letters Chairman Iftikhar Arif said Wednesday the translation of the poetic works of Pakistani and US poets on literary level will strengthen the literary ties between the two countries. He said in a meeting with the US cultural Attache` Constance Colding Jones in Pakistan Academy of Letters. Ayesha Salam from US Embassy was also present on the occasion. The discussion focused on the translation of the poetic works of Pakistani and US poets. The translation of the poetry of Pakistani poets will be published under the auspices of a literary institution National Endowment for the Arts, USA. The Pakistan Academy of Letters will publish the Urdu translation of American poets. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=120415&catid=17 |
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Advertising
Letter to Editor “Ads” |
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Imtiaz Akhter comments, “the print and electronic media are full of ads to the extent of irritation. We tolerate these ads considering them a part of the paper’s/ channel’s economy. But they should discard the blatantly false and harmful ads like those of so called hakims, black magic practitioners and those about invisible facilities given to the people by the government.”
(News-7)
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