CFRM letter to editors The News and Jang re: an unethical, false and irresponsible report

The Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan, has sent an email to the Editors of The News and Jang regarding an unethical, false and irresponsible report about Ali Dayan’s testimony before the US congressional hearing on Balochistan, in response to a private member’s proposed resolution in the House of Representatives. Text of the email posted in a Note in the [...]

Kamran Shahid’s threat to CFRM signatories…

Kamran Shahid of Express TV sent the following email to Citizens for Free and Responsible Media in response to CFRM’s letter on the Pakistani media and Balochistan that was also emailed to him. Both are posted on the CFRM facebook page. I do wonder what about the letter he found “factually incorrect and harassing” and on what [...]

Pakistan: Media and Balochistan – Citizens for Free and Responsible Media statement

Tuesday February 21, 2012:  Citizens for Free and Responsible Media statement on the Media and Balochistan To: All TV channel heads, producers and directors, newspaper editors, DG PEMRA, Minister of Information, Prime Minister Pakistan Summary: 1. We urge the Government to facilitate dialogue by lifting curbs on the media in Balochistan. 2. We call upon the [...]

Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan: Summary of media consumer activism

 Summary of media consumer activism in Pakistan from Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan, Saturday February 4, 2012:

Citizens’ response: Thank you Mr Siddiqi…

From: Dr Kamran Iqbal (cc’d to signatories below) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 To: Zafar Siddiqi Dear Mr Siddiqi, Thank you for your prompt and courageous response. We appreciate the moral courage of SAMAA TV’s stance. We hope you will continue to lead by example in developing a code of ethics and directives, which you [...]

Media ethics: Samaa TV’s response to citizens’ feedback and Maya Khan’s refusal to apologise

Following the citizens’ campaign expressing outrage at a Samaa TV morning show’s intrusive and unethical programming, and the host  Maya Khan’s refusal to apologise unconditionally, the channel is taking her show off the air and terminating her contract. BELOW: CEO Samaa TV Zafar Siddiqi’s letter in response to our email to him yesterday. This is [...]

Citizens’ response to Zafar Siddiqi, President CNBC Pakistan & CEO Samaa TV

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:05 AM, <Zafar Siddiq> wrote: Dear All I have travelled to Khi to look at this matter and yesterday Maya apologised in her program for this. I can assure this will never happen again. Samaa is a progressive channel. There are certain other directives that have been put into place as [...]

Samaa TV’s apology and Maya Khan’s smiling (not) apology

So after all the public pressure, Samaa TV apologises, says the programme that was broadcast (moral policing, intrusion of privacy) does not reflect their policy, and that it won’t happen again. The anchor says that the programme host Maya Khan has also apologised – but the apology we are then shown is no apology. Sitting [...]

An Open Letter To Marvi Sirmed

An Open Letter To Marvi Sirmed by Usmann Rana. Thanks for speaking up.

Another pot of rumours ruined by facts…

Another pot of rumours ruined by facts… twitter.com/pakmediawatch/… — Pakistan Media Watch (@pakmediawatch) December 23, 2011 Also see Pakistan Media Watch about the dangers of speculation and rumour being presented as truth: “…there is a petition before the Supreme Court that is based on media reports that selectively summarise a foreign media report that paraphrases the [...]