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YouTube outage might have been caused by Pakistan

Posted by Reuters on 27 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, PK, Media Freedom, New Media, YouTube

By Augustine Anthony, Reuters
Pakistani Internet service providers may have inadvertently blocked the popular YouTube Web site across the world at the weekend when they restricted local access to the site, a telecommunications official said.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Pakistan: Why Bhutto, and What Now for Pakistan?

Posted by Global Voices on 28 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Blogs, Commentary, PK, World Press

More reactions are pouring out in the Pakistani blogosphere and elsewhere as it settles in that a very strong and capable leader is no more.

Popularity: 2% [?]

BBC: Benazir Bhutto Killed by Suicide Bomber

Posted by MediaChannel on 28 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: VIDEO, PK, World Press

BBC coverage of the Bhutto assassination.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Pakistan: Reactions to Bhutto’s Death

Posted by Global Voices on 27 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Commentary, PK, World Press

Pakistani bloggers react to the shocking assasinaton of Benazir Bhutto.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Musharraf’s Monster

Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 07 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Commentary, PK, Media Freedom

In Pakistan, independent TV is young, powerful, and biting the hand that fed it.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Isolated Musharraf suspends media curbs as anger grows on streets and in ruling party

Posted by Guardian Unlimited on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, PK, Journalism, Policy

By Declan Walsh, The Guardian
Pakistan’s president is striking out at colleagues critical of new media restrictions. Now analysts fear emergency rule may be imposed.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Musharraf Tightens Regulations For Pakistani Media

Posted by The Independent on 05 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, PK, Media Freedom, New Media, Middle East, World Press

By The Independent
Under an emergency ordinance that takes effective immediately, Musharraf made a raft of amendments to regulations governing the electronic media, including private television channels that the general has accused of anti-government bias.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Pakistan: Blog-o-Furious

Posted by Global Voices on 15 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, PK, New Media

By Omer Alvie, Global Voices
As the situation in Pakistan gets progressively worse, a native writer highlights the views of Pakistani bloggers providing the most honest and accurate views on events there.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Media Threat and Muslims

Posted by Abdul Ruff Colachal on 19 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Media Savvy, Bias, Commentary, Politics, PK, IN

Hollywood rarely portrays real Muslims or Arabs, while cinema elsewhere, including Bollywood in Mumbai, paints the Muslims in thick dirty colors, says a professor in New Delhi.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Afghanistan: Forgotten War, Forgotten Women

Posted by D. J. Waletzky on 06 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, IQ, Politics, PK, Ethics, AF

Are the women of Afghanistan more than pawns in a rhetorical game? What has the Us-led invasion done for their plight?

Popularity: 2% [?]

Musharraf seeks border deal with India

Posted by MediaChannel on 06 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Politics, PK, IN

Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has gone on a media offensive in India–for peace in Kashmir. He recently published an autobiography and gave an Indian TV channel an exclusive interview appealing directly to the Indian people for peace.

Popularity: 1% [?]

 
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