“Pakistan’s Media” Webcast
Once again a friend at USIP contacted me to inform me of an event being webcast by their Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding. The event is to focus on Pakistan’s broadcast media and should be a quality opportunity to engage panelist and participants on issues of Pakistani society. Information on the event is listed below, enjoy!
Live Webcast and Online discussion: Pakistan’s Media: Dissecting its Coverage of Extremism, Terrorism and Pakistan-U.S. Relations
December 6, 2010, 2:30pm – 4:00pm EST
Location:
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd floor
1200 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Click Here to find a full list of speakers and more details about the event.
Webcast: This event will be webcast live beginning at 2:30pm EDT on December 6, 2010 at www.usip.org/webcast.html. Online viewers will be able to engage panelists and each other through live chat and Twitter discussions (hashtag #usippak).
Predominantly state-run until a decade ago, Pakistan’s broadcast media has transformed into a largely independent and proactive presence in Pakistani society. Complementing this is the rich vernacular and English language print coverage that the country has possessed for years. Combined, the print and broadcast outlets have strengthened a significant element of Pakistan’s civil society as the media is now extremely vocal in covering international and national issues, heightening public awareness and critical understanding.
Perhaps most pertinent to understand from the U.S. perspective is the Pakistani media’s coverage of issues pertaining to extremism, the war in Afghanistan, and more broadly, the Pakistan-U.S. relationship. Often, there have been concerns raised by outside observers that Pakistani media outlets paint too negative a picture of the Pakistan-U.S. bilateral ties and that major Pakistani media outlets have not taken a strong enough stance against extremist outfits. Is this criticism true? What are the motivations and constraints which lead the Pakistani media to determine how they present issues? And what are the nuances and differences in messaging between broadcast and print, and vernacular and English language media?
This event, which will seek to answer these questions, is being co-sponsored by USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention and USIP’s Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding.
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A specific section of Media namely Geo and Jang group is playing a role of party against the government. I suggest Mir Khalil Ur Rehman to replace Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan as he is much willing to assume the role of king maker. Jang group is always keen to pinch government by highlighting even minor mistakes. No doubt government has committed several mistakes but Similarly many good things were done in this Government but it has never been projected, when president issued an ordinance for the reinstatement of jobs of those who were politically victimized and sacked and that ordinance was in the best interest of people of this country but they opposed it.
let me also give you here the example of Shaikh Rasheed whose media trial was done on a prior day of election, whole program of Capital Talk was conducted on Shaikh Rasheed and he was not given option to justify himself and there was one renowned Journalist who said in that program that this is target killing of Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed.
when media plays partial role in the society, it leads anarchy in the society, the way our media playing its role mounting the depression and disappointmentin the masses but they are not focusing on the common people of this country but they are well politicized and seeking to do politics in the country.
Politicization of the media is a problem in a lot of countries. Media owners often are business people or politicians, and they use the media for their advantage. It seems to me the idea of an impartial media that accurately reflects a society’s concerns is a noble yet unrealistic idea. To put it differently, if the market for that type of news existed, someone would already be publishing it.
Media is very strong way for poor to protest through
But today’s Media is totally in coercion situation, Our channels have been sold, they don’t dare to explicit the only truth before us, they are, was and will be always against govt .(no matter which political party is in the gov.). They always blackmail the Govt. to get bribe… They are only and only Financial institutions, and not a proper channel to serve.
The electronic media in Pakistan has made rapid progress. Only three or four decades ago, radio and state owned TV was considered to be the main sources of information. Today, we have more than 77 Satellite TV Channels, 2346 cable operators, 28 landing TV Channels from abroad like BBC, CNN, Sky, Star etc. and more than 129 FM Stations.
This rapid growth of electronic media in Pakistan remained unsuccessful to uplift the national image, Cohesion and Integration. The reason is that the media in Pakistan has failed to recognise its responsibilities. Trained staff is not available. Mostly, staff is taken from print media who never ever been in b,cast media. They are miles away from the ethics of broadcasting. They are more commercial than Public service institution. Not discussing the critical issues of society but engaged in discussion on the subject they never gone through. For example media discussed the Kerry Luger bill which is a non military aid package granted to Pakistan by the U.S in view of its precarious economic condition but they discussed other way round. Not even reading its contents
Sad. How long this practice will remain on? No clue.
Muhammad A sheikh
International Broadcaster/ Journalist