By: Nation Lip Syncs To JUI-F Leader’s Tune | Pakistan Media Watch

Nation Lip Syncs To JUI-F Leader’s Tune | Pakistan Media Watch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:35:50 +0000

[...] With a sensational headline, today’s The Nation reports today that Jamiat Ulama -e- Islam (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman says that there are over 9,000 Black Water personnel in Islamabad. The Nation reports these statements without verifying the truth of the JUI-F leader’s claims. As such, The Nation joins the ranks of media outlets acting more like political stooges than legitimate news organizations. [...]

By: Credibility, and how to lose it | Pakistan Media Watch

Credibility, and how to lose it | Pakistan Media Watch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:19:51 +0000

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Journalists Or Political Stooges? | Headlines Today — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:32:55 +0000

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By: Aamir Mughal

Aamir Mughal — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:11 +0000

Reality of Dawn Media Group is as under:

Zamir Niazi (1932-2004) was a renowned Pakistani journalist, famous for his commitment to the freedom of the press in Pakistan. Noted books by Late. Zamir Niazi are The Press in Chains in 1986 and The Press Under Siege (1992) and the Web of Censorship (1994). Pakistan’s icon of press freedom, Zamir Niazi, whose book The Web of Censorship is a prescribed read for students at Ivy League universities, is today, flying solo against the poseurs in Pakistani press. Anticipating another labour of love, I shoot off an e-mail to him. “It’s more a labour of anger and frustration!” he archly relies. “For the last three decades, I have fought for freedom of thought and expression. The press is really free to a great extent,” reminding me that while the newspapers of today are “better printed and better produced,” with more pay to its workers, “but look at the content…believe me, with a few honourable exceptions, the majority of reporters are on the payroll of one or another agency.” A scholar of international acclaim, who has dedicated his life researching, analyzing and writing on Pakistani press, he now feels let down by his own ilk. “Most journalists/reporters/writers shun reading books or absorbing themselves in serious study,” he laments. “You will not believe that even senior persons, including some editors, do not read their own newspapers.” He has contempt for journalists who enjoy all kinds of “perks and privileges” and when their demands are denied, “they cry foul.” As a crusader for this very class of people who wield the pen, Niazi, who wrote his famous book, The Press in Chains, is a bundle of angst who now wants the title changed to The Books in Chains – Libraries in Flames. What a sad reflection of our times. [Courtesy: Daily Dawn There’s deception to every rule by By Anjum Niaz – Dawn Magazine

Read more details as to how Dawn Media Group/Hameed Haroon honour the Press Freedom and Cherished Prinicples of Late. Zamir Niazi in Letter and Spirit!

1 – The Dawn Media Group & Violation of Journalist’s Rights – 1

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-media-group-violation-of.html

2 – The Dawn Media Group & Violation of Journalist’s Rights – 2

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-media-group-violation-of_10.html

3 – The Dawn Media Group & Violation of Journalist’s Rights – 3

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-media-group-violation-of_5249.html

4 – The Dawn Media Group & Violation of Journalist’s Rights – 4

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-media-group-violation-of_3591.html

5 – Daily Dawn, Hameed Haroon, Hamid Mir & Nuclear Bombs

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/daily-dawn-hameed-haroon-hamid-mir.html

6 – The Dawn Media Group & Violation of Labour Laws

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/dawn-media-group-violation-of-labour.html