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Articles with tag: Journalism

Prisoner of Conscience

MD WAQAR   Apr 18, 2008   interacts: 6

Mr. Afridi is imprisoned because of his peaceful expression of his beliefs. He is victim of an unfair trial.

Is Decline of the Fourth-Estate Here and Happening?

Mahesh Prabhu   Mar 7, 2008   interacts: 58

Distinguished Editor and Author of our times M J Akbar is removed from the Chairmanship of 'The Asian Age' and 'Deccan Chronicle'.

The Cost of a Pakistani Journalist Life

Imran Ali Teepu   Nov 4, 2007   interacts: 5

What matters more? the media coverage or the person covering it? Ask a media owner of newspaper or the television and it’s the coverage.

India's first Citizen Journalists Meet held in New Delhi

Abhishek Behl   Aug 20, 2007   interacts: 1

Citizen journalists participating in the meet shared their views and ideas to take the country ahead into the next 60 years of independence.

Dodging Pakistani Sleuths to Cover a War and a Coup

Jawed Naqvi   Aug 25, 2007   interacts: 202

Are there Indian journalist who could come anywhere near the blunt posers that are hurled by Pakistani journalists to people in authority?

Fox off!

Nadeem F Paracha   Jun 12, 2007   interacts: 91

What is sicker? State brutality or the brutality being turned into a sensational slide show by the channels to improve their ratings and attract viewrship?

When Puppets Hide Behind Pomposity

Farzana Versey   Jul 18, 2005   interacts: 29

Journalism is full of the evils it accuses society of. The Press has in the past exposed leaders and even brought down governments.Ever heard about a media baron being at the receiving end?

Uproar over a Cartoon?

Nauman Nisar   May 15, 2005   interacts: 53

Why so much uproar over an editorial cartoon? Why is it considered derogatory and why are the Pakistanis so offended?

Thus Fare Fake Democracies

Shafqat Mahmood   May 11, 2005   interacts: 92

This government has gone completely bananas. On World Press Freedom Day, it chose to thrash journalists in Islamabad and Lahore.

South Asia’s Ride On The Video Tiger

Harish Nambiar   Feb 22, 2005   interacts: 4

Satellite television is another tiger that South Asia is firmly riding; getting off perhaps is not too much of an immediate concern. Regulation, benchmarking, calibrating debates with nationalistic undercurrents, codes of conduct will evolve.

Gulp Fiction

Nadeem F Paracha   Sep 29, 2004   interacts: 30

Magazines I’d like to see: Paranoid 911, Talwaar Times, Cannibalism Today, HardOn

Plight of Karachi Journalists

Fazil Jamili   Jun 10, 2004   interacts: 9

The working conditions in most of the newspapers have deteriorated with more than 75 per cent of journalists working either on contract or without appointment letters ...

Teaching journalism

Harish Nambiar   Nov 12, 2003   interacts: 19

Once I asked if any in the class wanted to become foreign correspondents. Almost the whole class chorused, but of course, muffled by the loftiness of their stated agreement. Then I asked them if they liked Henry Kissinger, and virtually none of them had h

Dear Dana

Sobia Aslam   Feb 24, 2003   interacts: 13

The last time I saw you was at the Espresso Royale Café.

The Forgotten Children of God

Zalan Alam   Dec 5, 2001   interacts: 198

Beneath the four main castes is a fifth group, the Scheduled Caste

I Am Wierd

anNy    Nov 3, 2000   interacts: 30

I seem to overflow from them all

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