Pak Media Watch

Incorrect Reporting Confusing Readers

July 20, 2009 at 10:51 am | Posted in Media | Leave a comment

A journalist friend of mine has called AajKal an Urdu version of Daily Times.   From leads to editorial the Urdu Daily carries the Urdu version of news and views placed at similar places in the English daily The Daily Times. For example you can find here  the editorial of daily times and here editorial of AajKal which is the translated version of the Ed published in Daily Times the same day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In case of Jang, another group publishing both Urdu and English newspapers, only byline news stories are published in both ‘the News’ and ‘daily Jang’. Mostly the investigative stuff generated by The News’ investigative unit under Ansar Abbasi is translated into Urdu for publishing in Jang. There is no bad if an owner presents both Urdu and English media with same resources. We are not going to object to it.

 But I still remember the class of “new reporting and editing” taught by Fazal Qureshi Sb in Karachi University we were told that any news must be authentic. In modern time the readers rather the researchers authenticate the figures from Newspapers. But what has happened to the editors in our country as they don’t bother to counter check any figure while editing the news story. 

The picture-1 is the scanned News being published in Daily Times (20-07-09) which  reads; “the government unveiled the pricing formula for petroleum products on Sunday, “in line with the long-standing demand of the society”, showing the government was earning Rs 18.57 a litre on petrol and Rs 16.64 a litre on diesel”

 

 Sources; Ijaz Kakakhel

 

 The picture-2 is the scanned news being published in Aajkal (20-07-09) reads; Rs 18.57 a litre on petrol and Rs 16.64 a litre on diesel are charged as taxes.

 

 Sources; Agencies

 Confusion to Conclusion; which of the news is correct? The news story of Aajkal or Daily Times? I guess that one of the stories is incorrect. If incorrect then why? I ask my Blogger friends to help me in searching an answer to it.