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Shaheen Sehbai ’
Mar 10th, 2014 |
By admin |
Category: Jang, The News
This story was brought to our attention by a Tweet via Nadeem Paracha. Oh, boy. Believing satirical stuff to be real news. Pakistani newspaper uses satirical text in its story … https://t.co/eyM5k94fap — Nadeem F. Paracha (@NadeemfParacha) March 10, 2014 Following the link takes the reader to a most interesting post on Facebook by The […]
Tags: inaccurate, Jang Group, Nadeem Paracha, plagiarism, Shaheen Sehbai, The News Posted in Jang, The News |
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Jun 6th, 2012 |
By admin |
Category: Conspiracy Theories, Ethics
When the Chief Justice took suo motu notice of allegations that his son Arsalan is involved in a corruption scandal, several high-profile journalists commented that the action was “a direct result of Twitter”. We will refrain from comment about the likelihood that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is deciding the docket based on […]
Tags: Ahmad Noorani, Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, Farrukh Khan Pitafi, judiciary, Mubasher Lucman, rumours, Shaheen Sehbai, social media, Twitter Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Ethics |
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May 1st, 2012 |
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Category: Jang, The News
Shaheen Sehbai alerted his Twitter followers to an alarming story yesterday, one that claims the US has carried out a secret program to buy Pakistani journalists and to make them ashamed of being Muslims. The story that Shaheen Sehbai Tweeted was written two years ago as part of a series titled, ‘Final Solution Frenzy’ that […]
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, credibility, Jang Group, Shaheen Sehbai, Tariq Saeedi, The News Posted in Jang, The News |
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Mar 13th, 2012 |
By admin |
Category: The News
Now that The News acknowledges that ‘Memogate’ is not as open and shut a case as some assumed, the paper should ask itself why it was so certain about Mansoor Ijaz’s claims at the beginning. In his video series on journalism ethics, Abbas Nasir discusses several traps that journalists face including conflict of interest and […]
Tags: bias, Ethics, Jang Group, Mansoor Ijaz, memogate, Shaheen Sehbai, The News Posted in The News |
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Mar 6th, 2012 |
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Category: Jang, The News
Shaheen Sehbai has returned with yet another conspiracy theory about secret, sinister plans being hatched behind the scenes by the PPP leadership. But this latest conspiracy is nothing new, and is really just a repeat of the same old script. In his article of Monday, Sehbai accuses the government of hatching a sinister plan to […]
Tags: Jang Group, political attacks, political bias, Shaheen Sehbai, The News Posted in Jang, The News |
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Oct 15th, 2011 |
By admin |
Category: Conspiracy Theories, Jang, The News
When Mansoor Ijaz’s piece in Financial Times was published earlier this week, we could almost feel the excitement in the air. Here is a piece in the international media that claims a conspiracy from president’s house! But, wait, there’s a problem! The majority of the piece actually attacks the national agencies a being a source […]
Tags: Anjum Niaz, Conspiracy Theories, ISI, Jang Group, Mansoor Ijaz, political attacks, selective quoting, Shaheen Sehbai, The News Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Jang, The News |
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Apr 6th, 2011 |
By admin |
Category: Jang, The News
The popular talking point has become, once again, that the government is playing ‘Sindh card’ in its relationship to the judiciary. But a careful examination of recent media articles suggests that perhaps there is another player holding the cards. ‘Sindh card’ refers of course to the idea that President Zardari and other PPP politicians attempt […]
Tags: Ansar Abbasi, Deedar Hussain Shah, Hamid Mir, Jang Group, Shaheen Sehbai, Sindh card, Taj M Khattak, Tariq Butt, The News, Zardari Posted in Jang, The News |
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Apr 3rd, 2011 |
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Category: Jang, The News
The News (Jang Group) has taken a particularly adversarial tone against the government lately, with Jang’s celebrity journalists coming out with bald faced political attacks on the president and parliament based on nothing more than rumour, speculation, and conspiracy theories. We have already covered Ansar Abbasi’s baseless attack on parliament over devolution of HEC. But […]
Tags: Ali Dayan Hasan, Ansar Abbasi, Hamid Mir, Human Rights Watch, Jang Group, judiciary, Lack of Evidence, political attacks, PPP, Shaheen Sehbai, Sindh card, Tariq Butt, The News, Zardari Posted in Jang, The News |
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Mar 23rd, 2011 |
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Category: Jang, The News
In his latest column for The News (Jang Group), Shaheen Sehbai holds a ‘funhouse mirror’ to the president’s speech and comes up with a curious 10-point list of what the president did not say in his address to the National Assembly on Tuesday. Sehbai’s column is purely editorial, though it is labeled as ‘News Analysis’ […]
Tags: economics, fact checking, historical context, Jang Group, misleading, political attacks, Predictions, Shaheen Sehbai, The News, Zardari Posted in Jang, The News |
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Feb 5th, 2011 |
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Category: Jang, The News
Trying to get the ‘scoop’ on a story is a journalistic past time. Reporters want to be the first on the scene, and investigative journalists want to be the first to uncover a new angle. With fierce competition between media groups, publishing ‘Breaking News’ is a coveted prize. But there is a line between breaking […]
Tags: gossips, internet hoax, Jang Group, legal action, libel, malicious publication, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, rumours, Shaheen Sehbai, Wikileaks, Zardari Posted in Jang, The News |
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