Biased Coverage Of Anti US Rally By English Press
June 30, 2009 at 4:57 pm | Posted in Dawn, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Pakistan, US | 6 Comments 
The English press coverage of a mammoth ‘Go America Go’ rally organized here in Karachi was all time poor. The huge participation of Karachitis in an anti American rally couldn’t catch the attention of news editors in Pakistan’s English language newspapers. All newspapers groups have certain leaning and so dawn group of newspaper which claims to be progressive. I repeatedly say that newspapers never remain impartial but the professional demands a balance.
The ‘stuff’ been associated with Dawn over times has not only pretended to be progressive and socialist but also anti capitalist. The strange aspect of this story is the undeclared association of these past socialist with the capitalist America which for acquiring the hegemony has made aggression on Muslims states. I don’t understand the mentality of this liberal lot in the news rooms of English daily who on hands ridicule Islamists for waging against Soviet Union but on the hand are against their insurgency against the US. The only reason behind their stance is their enmity of Muslim insurgents and love for the aggressor whether it comes in form of USSR or adopt a new name of US led allied forces.
which of these two pictures and news are prominent? which deserve space at the front page?
The only reason behind killing this story seems to the above stated reason. Interestingly, the participants had gathered to pressurize the government to say goodbye to the US war on terror and ask her to go out of our land.
What else they demanded?
“They said the root cause of all the problems facing , but the rulers instead of raising voice against this hegemony are playing role of silent spectator”
Like the motherland, the newspaper started by the father of Pakistan has been high jacked by liberal fascists. The name of Qaid-e-Azam is still used by Dawn but his progressive vision has been put into dustbin by the Editors of Dawn.
Pakistan is this unwanted US meddling. The US has even violated the sanctity of territories of Pakistan and killed thousands of innocent men, women and children in drone and missile attacks
Again what wrong with this? The protest of five to six women demanding equal rights or bashing Islam may be important to highlight and thus get space in the front page of Pakistani English Daily but doesn’t the protest hundred of thousand including thousands of women deserve to placed at the back page? Dawn gave this story a space of two column at the page third of its metropolitan pages. The coverage of this story in the news and daily time was also in name only. If all this progressiveness, then I pray that Allah may not make any one progressive. These hypocrites have converted progression in suppression, the suppression of voice against injustice and aggression.
Talkhaba doesn’t necessarily agree with the views and policies of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Deceptive Reporting by BBC URDU
June 20, 2009 at 7:51 am | Posted in BBC URDU, Media, Pakistan | 6 Comments My assessment of media coverage make me believe that the biased reporting is not always institutionalized, however, when it comes to big media groups, my theory changes due to some reasons; at the top of which is their claim of being cent percent accurate.
BBC and its Urdu service BBC Urdu is no exception as large sum of amounts, most probably in UK Ponds, is spend on training and development. Besides the employees, reporters and editors are paid lucrative salaries and benefits.
So should we expect hyperbole and that too about big issues pertaining to a sovereign Islamic state?
I read the BBC Urdu’s story on 17th June 2009 with the heading of “Tehran Mein Lakho Ka Jaloos” (A rally of hundreds of thousands in Tehran). I started reading the story with interest but found no hundreds of thousands in the body of story; instead the body of the news informs us that was the rally of thousands and not hundred of thousands.
Is Pakistani Media unbiased?
June 19, 2009 at 10:19 am | Posted in Aaj, ARY, Geo, Journalism, Media, Pakistan, PTV | 4 CommentsThe role of Pakistani Media as an independent and impartial agent of change providing all segments of society the space and time to voice their opinion will remain a topic of research for the Media analysts in the coming years.
Ironically, presently most of the media related research is conducted by commercial research agencies which analyze the media’s economic aspect, viewership and rating. Being a marketing need a large sum of amount is spent on the same. Separate research wings are also being setup by the TV channels.
On the other hand the academic researches revolve around the topic of media’s impact on the society. To my knowledge no one has conducted yet a research assessing Media’s impartiality and its representation of different voices. The merit of news is also subject of the some topic.
Although, it is major topic of research, Abu Saad has tried to raise a very relevant question in his column as why hasn’t Pakistani media reported a news story in which a Chabad Rabbi Mennis Fried ask for the killing of “Arab men, women and children”. I
Interestingly none of the five leading news channel and newspapers has made a news story of it.
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