13 Why i like conspracy theories...? the Media is coming out with the same version of the intelligence agencies... the role and the responsibility of the media is to search for the truth... eventhough the bullettins they carry about the terror reporting is completely the cut and paste version of the police storiess....
17 how to use the sencible approach of the public for dirty commercial purpose...? Just watch latest Idea Ad.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Pakistan media declare war on Indian counterparts
Pakistan media declare war on Indian counterparts
Nirupama Subramanian
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Indian media accused of not demanding for evidence
“They are overcommitted to projecting India as a success story”
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ISLAMABAD: The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks have led to the declaration of hostilities in unexpected quarters – Pakistani media has declared a virtual war on Indian media for its “knee-jerk” finger-pointing across the border, and its unquestioning acceptance of the Indian government’s “Pakistan-link” theory.
Most Pakistanis are angry and upset about the Indian allegations, which they believe are “unsubstantiated”. Even the Indian government, whose highest officials have made the allegation in unambiguous terms, have not come in for as much flak as the messenger, the assumption being that governments will say what they have to, but it is the duty of the media to question.
Leading the charge against the India media are the Pakistani television channels, with panel discussions shows devoted exclusively to the coverage of the Mumbai attacks by the Indian media.
Even on talk shows about the impact of the attacks on the relations between the two countries, among the first questions that anchors are shooting off are: “Do you think the India media should have pointed a finger at Pakistan within such a short time, and without any evidence? Why do we see this knee-jerk response every time some terrorist incident takes place in India?”
Overshadowed
One of the big successes of the peace process since 2004 was the greater understanding and camaraderie between the media of the two countries, thanks to frequent interactions. But the smoke and gunfire of Mumbai has overshadowed even that.
Top Pakistani journalists are asking why the Indian media, more specifically the electronic media, have been so willing to accept the government theory that the attackers came from Pakistan. Top Pakistani journalists are asking why the Indian media, more specifically the electronic media, have been so willing to accept the government theory that the attackers came from Pakistan.
They are dismissive of reports in the Indian press that the terrorists had links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, or that they landed in Mumbai in a boat from Karachi. Instead, they are asking why these reports are not demanding the government for evidence of these allegations.
“Too nationalistic”
On Dawn News, three top guns of the Pakistani media – anchors Hamid Mir, Talat Hussain and Nasim Zehra – dissected the coverage in an hour-long programme that was aired both on Saturday and Sunday.
Their scathing conclusion – Indian media are “too nationalistic”, “smug”, they told “lies” or at best “half-truths”, “did not ask questions”, resorted to “clichés” and have perfected the art of projecting Pakistan as the enemy.
A similar programme aired on Geo TV on Sunday. The feeling is widespread in the Pakistan journalistic community that the Indian media are responsible for the current tensions between the two countries and for pushing the Indian government to take on its neighbour even if it means launching a military strike. The India media have been accused of not even looking at other possibilities, such as the involvement of an Indian group in the attacks.
The new evidence in the Samjhauta Express firebombings pointing a finger at a Hindutva militant group has come up repeatedly as one reason why the Indian media should have been less “hasty” in arriving at its conclusions.
On the whole, Pakistanis — as evident from public phone-ins to talk shows — are even questioning if the entire ghastly episode was not all engineered by Indian intelligence agencies working in connivance with the U.S. to “defame” Pakistan with the intention of dismembering it.
“[The] Indian media is overcommitted to projecting India as a success story. They are not used to reporting state failures. They are used to reporting India as a country where nothing bad happens, its Army as the best thing in the world. It projects its heroes as supermen, taller than the Himlayas…So the gap between what the Indian media are committed to reporting, and the crass state failure they had to do report [in Mumbai], they ended up filling it with lies,” Mr. Hussain, a top-rated anchor with Aaj TV, told Dawn News.
On the same programme, Mr. Mir, who anchors Geo’s flagship show Capital Talk, asked why the Indian media were not asking hard questions of the Indian government.
“When Pakistani forces say they have killed five Al-Qaeda, when they say Rashid Rauf has been killed in a drone attack, Pakistani media are asking them questions — show us the bodies. But Indian media are not asking important questions.
“There are 500 nautical miles between Karachi and Gujarat, and the Indian media are saying the terrorists came in boats from Karachi. Why are they not questioning the failure of their intelligence agencies?”
Mr. Mir said the Indian media had to take responsibility of the sharp downslide in the relations between the two countries.
At a press conference, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi too accused the Indian media of “irresponsible” conduct.
Giving himself credit for having stayed on in India for three days after the Mumbai incidents began, he said he had “engaged with their political leadership, engaged their intelligentsia, faced their media,” to explain Pakistan’s point of view.
In response to his appeal for “national unity” and his declaration that the country must “hope for the best and plan for the worst”, at least one Punjabi television channel started playing national songs from the 1965 and 1971 wars, including Noorjehan’s famous song dedicated to soldiers, “Merey watan key sajheeley jawanon”.
Nirupama Subramanian
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Indian media accused of not demanding for evidence
“They are overcommitted to projecting India as a success story”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ISLAMABAD: The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks have led to the declaration of hostilities in unexpected quarters – Pakistani media has declared a virtual war on Indian media for its “knee-jerk” finger-pointing across the border, and its unquestioning acceptance of the Indian government’s “Pakistan-link” theory.
Most Pakistanis are angry and upset about the Indian allegations, which they believe are “unsubstantiated”. Even the Indian government, whose highest officials have made the allegation in unambiguous terms, have not come in for as much flak as the messenger, the assumption being that governments will say what they have to, but it is the duty of the media to question.
Leading the charge against the India media are the Pakistani television channels, with panel discussions shows devoted exclusively to the coverage of the Mumbai attacks by the Indian media.
Even on talk shows about the impact of the attacks on the relations between the two countries, among the first questions that anchors are shooting off are: “Do you think the India media should have pointed a finger at Pakistan within such a short time, and without any evidence? Why do we see this knee-jerk response every time some terrorist incident takes place in India?”
Overshadowed
One of the big successes of the peace process since 2004 was the greater understanding and camaraderie between the media of the two countries, thanks to frequent interactions. But the smoke and gunfire of Mumbai has overshadowed even that.
Top Pakistani journalists are asking why the Indian media, more specifically the electronic media, have been so willing to accept the government theory that the attackers came from Pakistan. Top Pakistani journalists are asking why the Indian media, more specifically the electronic media, have been so willing to accept the government theory that the attackers came from Pakistan.
They are dismissive of reports in the Indian press that the terrorists had links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, or that they landed in Mumbai in a boat from Karachi. Instead, they are asking why these reports are not demanding the government for evidence of these allegations.
“Too nationalistic”
On Dawn News, three top guns of the Pakistani media – anchors Hamid Mir, Talat Hussain and Nasim Zehra – dissected the coverage in an hour-long programme that was aired both on Saturday and Sunday.
Their scathing conclusion – Indian media are “too nationalistic”, “smug”, they told “lies” or at best “half-truths”, “did not ask questions”, resorted to “clichés” and have perfected the art of projecting Pakistan as the enemy.
A similar programme aired on Geo TV on Sunday. The feeling is widespread in the Pakistan journalistic community that the Indian media are responsible for the current tensions between the two countries and for pushing the Indian government to take on its neighbour even if it means launching a military strike. The India media have been accused of not even looking at other possibilities, such as the involvement of an Indian group in the attacks.
The new evidence in the Samjhauta Express firebombings pointing a finger at a Hindutva militant group has come up repeatedly as one reason why the Indian media should have been less “hasty” in arriving at its conclusions.
On the whole, Pakistanis — as evident from public phone-ins to talk shows — are even questioning if the entire ghastly episode was not all engineered by Indian intelligence agencies working in connivance with the U.S. to “defame” Pakistan with the intention of dismembering it.
“[The] Indian media is overcommitted to projecting India as a success story. They are not used to reporting state failures. They are used to reporting India as a country where nothing bad happens, its Army as the best thing in the world. It projects its heroes as supermen, taller than the Himlayas…So the gap between what the Indian media are committed to reporting, and the crass state failure they had to do report [in Mumbai], they ended up filling it with lies,” Mr. Hussain, a top-rated anchor with Aaj TV, told Dawn News.
On the same programme, Mr. Mir, who anchors Geo’s flagship show Capital Talk, asked why the Indian media were not asking hard questions of the Indian government.
“When Pakistani forces say they have killed five Al-Qaeda, when they say Rashid Rauf has been killed in a drone attack, Pakistani media are asking them questions — show us the bodies. But Indian media are not asking important questions.
“There are 500 nautical miles between Karachi and Gujarat, and the Indian media are saying the terrorists came in boats from Karachi. Why are they not questioning the failure of their intelligence agencies?”
Mr. Mir said the Indian media had to take responsibility of the sharp downslide in the relations between the two countries.
At a press conference, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi too accused the Indian media of “irresponsible” conduct.
Giving himself credit for having stayed on in India for three days after the Mumbai incidents began, he said he had “engaged with their political leadership, engaged their intelligentsia, faced their media,” to explain Pakistan’s point of view.
In response to his appeal for “national unity” and his declaration that the country must “hope for the best and plan for the worst”, at least one Punjabi television channel started playing national songs from the 1965 and 1971 wars, including Noorjehan’s famous song dedicated to soldiers, “Merey watan key sajheeley jawanon”.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
My Daily diary of events - Contradictions - November
10 Times of india is come out with a report on the women terrorists of world in the light of arrest of Sadhwi Pragnya Singh. they say, we can found the same creed of terrorists in Palestine and Iraq. intersting... will u dare to day Sarojini naidu, Rani Laxmibhai and Durgabhabhi as terrorists..? The women fighting against Ameica's middle East Pet Israel are fighting for their soil colonised by Zionists...
06 You wanna know the best way of spreading "Cultural Nationalism" ? - Spit on a professor's face!!!
05 Every news room men know this: there is nothing is coming up in the us foreign policy or state policy if Obama got elected... but why does this much coverage has done to the Obama victory... nobody dare to say no changes are coming up in the future...
06 You wanna know the best way of spreading "Cultural Nationalism" ? - Spit on a professor's face!!!
05 Every news room men know this: there is nothing is coming up in the us foreign policy or state policy if Obama got elected... but why does this much coverage has done to the Obama victory... nobody dare to say no changes are coming up in the future...
Saturday, October 4, 2008
My Daily diary of events - Contradictions - October
30 Some states of the country is famous for its leaders who are against the multinational companies which are working against the livelihood of the people.. but Meet Rm. Sulhbir Singh Badar, Minister son of Prakash Sing Bada, the self acclaimed Brand ambassodor of Cococola...He says, People in the state knows that what he drinks.. its coke not milk or tea... And the Indian express Chandigarh covered this story in theie Page1 Anchor..
26 How to forget or avoid the allegations against the hindu fundamental groups...? ask Swpan Das gupta Indiatoday/pioneer... his weekly column in pioeer will prove that... usually he covers the weeks main story in his pioneer column... but this week he is discussing about the much discussed economic crisis.. he doesnt read newspapers and nobody told him about the allegations against the hindu fundamentalists in Modasa and Malegaon blast in the eve of eid...
26 How to defend the the attack againt hindutwa groups..? ask chandan mitr of pioneer ... he will give the answers...
20 the usage of Post Godhra Riot....? what is the difference between post godra riot and gujarat riot...? it makes sense... for Narendra Modi... india Inc's new poster boy..
19 Mob attacked journalists in Jamia Nagar.. this was the main news in the city pages of Delhi Newspapers... why..? the anser is very important bcz the way media handled the encounter story was dissappointing... the other side... was there an "attack" in the area
19 in today's Pioneer front page article swapan das gupta says " has there, for example, been any follow-up of why the group maintained close links with some who nominally claim to be journalists?" about not folllowing the terror master mind stories of various metro special cells... one question mr. gupta... what was your credibility while u were following the police stories...?
16 America is not the international news... everything happens in the sense of news is news... but the channels and the media thinks "AMerica" is the news.
09 Akal takt asked an apology from Harbhajan Singh on acting as Rvana in Ek Hasina Ek Khiladi.... what would have happen if any moulana give a fatwa against salman khan and shabana asmi... muslim issues always are celebration for media..
09 in some sence making the correction in the popular concepts is the duty of Media, or give the correct information to the public...but see one example...there are various answers for the question "who killed the swami in Orissa?". But the predominants are... THe Christians, Maoists... Now a new answer Christian Maoists...The sangh has been rescued very smartly from the whole allegation on their cruel attack on christians... Clarifications are not being made...
09 LeT and IM has got Kerala link.... latest Breaking news in the newsroom... kerala police going to J&K and and J&K police going to Kerala... After Azamgarh and Pune its now Kerala's turn to act in the greate indian play -written and directed by somebody from Gujarat- of nabbing terrorists from Muslim "Ghettos"... After Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, Trivandrum police is now rallying to the Modinet...
09 Rat yatras were the secret behind rise of BJP in the country from 2 parliament seat party from ruling party... there were lot masala in that cuisine like, riots, Ramayan sagas of ramanand sagar etc... But if BJP is comeing to power tomorrow in the country what will be the main sponors to that enseavor...
1. Media which are omitting what the agencies has to say and spread the fear and compelling the people about the security and draconian laws like POTA to catch the terorists and jail them for years in jail without trail, like Ma'adani and Subair (Palakkad) spent in the jails... abot nine years
2. Media which covers one side of the story and forget the victims... muslims and other minorities going away from Congress and there willl be a big fall in the votebank, and that will be a helping factor for BJP to become the bggest party in the states and parliaments.. i dont mean that the media report the terrorists as scapegoats, but to report the real story behind the terror strikes and the encounters...
09 this week's indiatoday came out with a coverage about the suspected terrorists... what they want to prove..? interesting matter is the Delhi journalists body gave a clean chit for their sister publication, Mailtoday about their coverage on the encounter and the subsequent incident from the jamia nagar... the author of the coverstory has directly gone with the arguments of police... where is the words like credibility and responsibilty connects to these journalists...? same apply to the main stoy of indian exress in which they cover the terror tale and the encounter story today... commitment lies on the police.. not on the victim...
05 “AIADMK is the only party that ensured full protection to the Muslim community. The community people should continue to show their affection to the party” Jayalalitha.... is this community jayalalitha's ancestral mint?
05 Newsroom always appered with the double standards while dealing with the Victims... in jamia nagar encounter who are the victim and who are the heroes? both the versions raised eyebrows... Media has got a big good picture of victims of Orissa... but can any media draw the clear image of the victim of Jamia... it is the Double standard
05 The report by Delhi Journalist union slams the coverage done by various media in the encounter innings of sep 19. they said only Mailtoday had published some credible things and rest of the scribes are running after the police version of the story and tried to tarnish the images of the muslim community and especially the personalities of the accused youth. and the report says something about the mattter i said yesterday about the terrorist tag. I know some channel are taking and claiming the "Credibility" word as their market value.. the report is an eye opener for them...
04 - this is my contention that somebody should filea case against the media reagrding the use of "terrorist" tag... bcs, in the recent arrests mad e by various police forces across india says, tey are only "suspect" or "alleged to be" terrorists or "masterminds".... so, y did the media is enthusiastic to declare them as terrorists... in this case somebody should sue Mr. Praveen Swamy of hindu first.. becasue he is the one regularly doing this tagging...
26 How to forget or avoid the allegations against the hindu fundamental groups...? ask Swpan Das gupta Indiatoday/pioneer... his weekly column in pioeer will prove that... usually he covers the weeks main story in his pioneer column... but this week he is discussing about the much discussed economic crisis.. he doesnt read newspapers and nobody told him about the allegations against the hindu fundamentalists in Modasa and Malegaon blast in the eve of eid...
26 How to defend the the attack againt hindutwa groups..? ask chandan mitr of pioneer ... he will give the answers...
20 the usage of Post Godhra Riot....? what is the difference between post godra riot and gujarat riot...? it makes sense... for Narendra Modi... india Inc's new poster boy..
19 Mob attacked journalists in Jamia Nagar.. this was the main news in the city pages of Delhi Newspapers... why..? the anser is very important bcz the way media handled the encounter story was dissappointing... the other side... was there an "attack" in the area
19 in today's Pioneer front page article swapan das gupta says " has there, for example, been any follow-up of why the group maintained close links with some who nominally claim to be journalists?" about not folllowing the terror master mind stories of various metro special cells... one question mr. gupta... what was your credibility while u were following the police stories...?
16 America is not the international news... everything happens in the sense of news is news... but the channels and the media thinks "AMerica" is the news.
09 Akal takt asked an apology from Harbhajan Singh on acting as Rvana in Ek Hasina Ek Khiladi.... what would have happen if any moulana give a fatwa against salman khan and shabana asmi... muslim issues always are celebration for media..
09 in some sence making the correction in the popular concepts is the duty of Media, or give the correct information to the public...but see one example...there are various answers for the question "who killed the swami in Orissa?". But the predominants are... THe Christians, Maoists... Now a new answer Christian Maoists...The sangh has been rescued very smartly from the whole allegation on their cruel attack on christians... Clarifications are not being made...
09 LeT and IM has got Kerala link.... latest Breaking news in the newsroom... kerala police going to J&K and and J&K police going to Kerala... After Azamgarh and Pune its now Kerala's turn to act in the greate indian play -written and directed by somebody from Gujarat- of nabbing terrorists from Muslim "Ghettos"... After Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, Trivandrum police is now rallying to the Modinet...
09 Rat yatras were the secret behind rise of BJP in the country from 2 parliament seat party from ruling party... there were lot masala in that cuisine like, riots, Ramayan sagas of ramanand sagar etc... But if BJP is comeing to power tomorrow in the country what will be the main sponors to that enseavor...
1. Media which are omitting what the agencies has to say and spread the fear and compelling the people about the security and draconian laws like POTA to catch the terorists and jail them for years in jail without trail, like Ma'adani and Subair (Palakkad) spent in the jails... abot nine years
2. Media which covers one side of the story and forget the victims... muslims and other minorities going away from Congress and there willl be a big fall in the votebank, and that will be a helping factor for BJP to become the bggest party in the states and parliaments.. i dont mean that the media report the terrorists as scapegoats, but to report the real story behind the terror strikes and the encounters...
09 this week's indiatoday came out with a coverage about the suspected terrorists... what they want to prove..? interesting matter is the Delhi journalists body gave a clean chit for their sister publication, Mailtoday about their coverage on the encounter and the subsequent incident from the jamia nagar... the author of the coverstory has directly gone with the arguments of police... where is the words like credibility and responsibilty connects to these journalists...? same apply to the main stoy of indian exress in which they cover the terror tale and the encounter story today... commitment lies on the police.. not on the victim...
05 “AIADMK is the only party that ensured full protection to the Muslim community. The community people should continue to show their affection to the party” Jayalalitha.... is this community jayalalitha's ancestral mint?
05 Newsroom always appered with the double standards while dealing with the Victims... in jamia nagar encounter who are the victim and who are the heroes? both the versions raised eyebrows... Media has got a big good picture of victims of Orissa... but can any media draw the clear image of the victim of Jamia... it is the Double standard
05 The report by Delhi Journalist union slams the coverage done by various media in the encounter innings of sep 19. they said only Mailtoday had published some credible things and rest of the scribes are running after the police version of the story and tried to tarnish the images of the muslim community and especially the personalities of the accused youth. and the report says something about the mattter i said yesterday about the terrorist tag. I know some channel are taking and claiming the "Credibility" word as their market value.. the report is an eye opener for them...
04 - this is my contention that somebody should filea case against the media reagrding the use of "terrorist" tag... bcs, in the recent arrests mad e by various police forces across india says, tey are only "suspect" or "alleged to be" terrorists or "masterminds".... so, y did the media is enthusiastic to declare them as terrorists... in this case somebody should sue Mr. Praveen Swamy of hindu first.. becasue he is the one regularly doing this tagging...
Monday, September 29, 2008
Conradictions we watch and enthralled
30 Sep. Raj sets cat among tigers, warns bloodshed over LS notice to Thackeray.. what is this? can any kashmiri say this? Muslim say this..?
29 Sep. Naxals attacked CRPF and Killed Four... what is the religion of the naxals... why doesnt the govt arrest the people from their commmunity and family....?
28 Sept. AMerican model to tackle the teerror...? what was american model...?
28 Sep. Satisfying whom? no newspaper and channel is running after IM after the Mahrauli attacks? somebody had been caught... and he gotta hindu name...
27 Sep. I am troubled with two responses happened within two hrs of the blast
one... Advani was in a public programme and he gotta live in Ajtak as saying " i hear from the back that a blast happened in delhi" as doing a public lecturetwo.... the first public figure to reach at the blast point Delhi CM Candidate of BJP V K Malhotra
17 Sep. the media is running after the conspiracy theory behid the terror attack in the mariot hotel, (Especialy NDTV 24X7) , while they are not interested the fake allegations of Delhi and Guj police on the terrorists..(Interview with Ayesha Siddiqa from Islamabad)
17 Sep.30000 villagesres to stamp histry in the first ever referendum on fate of industrial venture, but the media has broadcasted a press conference of Mukesh Ambani with formost interst.
16 Sep. the bajrang leader from bangalore shake the hand with the police, while the muslim youth in the capital was under arrest and the face were hide with the brand "Kiffaya".
29 Sep. Naxals attacked CRPF and Killed Four... what is the religion of the naxals... why doesnt the govt arrest the people from their commmunity and family....?
28 Sept. AMerican model to tackle the teerror...? what was american model...?
28 Sep. Satisfying whom? no newspaper and channel is running after IM after the Mahrauli attacks? somebody had been caught... and he gotta hindu name...
27 Sep. I am troubled with two responses happened within two hrs of the blast
one... Advani was in a public programme and he gotta live in Ajtak as saying " i hear from the back that a blast happened in delhi" as doing a public lecturetwo.... the first public figure to reach at the blast point Delhi CM Candidate of BJP V K Malhotra
17 Sep. the media is running after the conspiracy theory behid the terror attack in the mariot hotel, (Especialy NDTV 24X7) , while they are not interested the fake allegations of Delhi and Guj police on the terrorists..(Interview with Ayesha Siddiqa from Islamabad)
17 Sep.30000 villagesres to stamp histry in the first ever referendum on fate of industrial venture, but the media has broadcasted a press conference of Mukesh Ambani with formost interst.
16 Sep. the bajrang leader from bangalore shake the hand with the police, while the muslim youth in the capital was under arrest and the face were hide with the brand "Kiffaya".
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