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Hilary Clinton’s Interaction with Media Anchors

By Tazeen • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

So now we know that at last the uproar created by media over the Kerry-Lugar bill has attracted the US attention and secretary of state Hilary Rodham Clinton has given the most importance to the media anchors, and not even to the journalists or to the columnists or to the analysts.
Media anchors like Talat Hussain, [...]



Media Figures; Opinion Dictators

By Muskan Hina • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Whatever the presidential spokesperson may say, what is said by the anchorpersons or the columnists elite gets listened, memorized, quoted, recalled and even followed by the masses. Masses see the talk shows, because that is readily available and the more spicey the talk show is, the more it remains in the memory. Masses don’t have [...]



Gilani : Make History or Become History

By Maria Sultan • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As one leading journalist reports a very insightful look inside the brain of Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani as Gilani outbursted. It was on his way back from Sharm el-Sheikh that Gilani spoke to Hamid Mir of Geo and Jang, saying, in effect, that henceforth he would be his own man, reshuffle his cabinet on the [...]



Kashif Abassi : Where are You

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Along with Dr. Shahid Masood, Hamid Mir, Talat Hussain, and Javed Chaudhry, one of the most famous and sought after anchorperson in the Pakistani private media is Kashif Abbassi. A graduate of Barani Institute of Information Technology, UAAR, Rawalpindi, Kashif belongs to a wealthy and strong background, but his fame comes from his intrepid and [...]



Shadows of Conspiracy

By Dr RazaHaider • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s a generation of goons and gamblers who been playing constitution and laws since decades. Here’s one more, all time man behind; Sharif uddin pirzada, who always escapes attention.



Are Journalists Duddoos (Frogs)?

By Haris Hashmi • Mar 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Senator Waqar, Rehman Malik, Manzoor Wattooo in the leadership of Salman Taseer are staging Lota-Market in Lahore. Salman Taseer is not happy with the journalists of newspapers and the tv shows. Salman Taseer is specifically not happy with Javed Chaudhary, Talat Hussain, Hamid Mir and Kashif Abbasi. He has called them frogs who mushroom during [...]



The Insane Pakistani Spectators and Brainy Media

By Dr RazaHaider • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Is he that much, as if president name can be used for abuse but Mr. Sharif uddin name could not be made public, as constitutional crime?



Media Owes It’s Freedom to Musharraf

By Gul Raiz • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whatever you say about President General (r) Pervez Musharraf, but you cannot refute the fact that the media gained an unprecedented freedom in his era. He was abused face to face by the belligerent anchors and journalists and he never tried to ban them.
Yes he did ban the channels and the anchorpersons, but only after [...]