The Indian and Pakistan media on the Jadhav ‘’spy’’ case
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |03/05/2017
The media stood by the ‘’national interest” of their respective countries instead of critically examining the case
BY JYOTI MALHOTRA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/10/2016
Watch their commentary on the current standoff and discover a rich world of diverse opinion, jingoism, humour, satire and impertinence.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |23/09/2016
Media fantasies about punishing Pakistan get more juvenile by the day. India Today's latest cover story is called 'How to punish Pakistan' with a cover picture of the Pakistan flag being wrung. It contains graphic depictions of options the country has: a covert operation to eliminate JeM chief Maulana Masoor Azhar in..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |31/08/2016
Both state and private media are going the whole hog in their embrace of Balochistan. According to the Director General AIR the external services division of All India Radio is shortly going to start a news bulletin in the Balochi language, particularly for the people living in Balochistan province of Pakistan..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |04/08/2016
The Pakistan state media today blacked out a speech by home minister Rajnath Singh who was in Islamabad to attend a SAARC meet. Singh said: "There should be strongest action not only against terrorists but also against nations who support terrorism.” He also said that there should be no glorification..
How Pakistan’s Dawn covers India
IN MEDIA MONITORING |22/06/2016
An analysis of The Hindu and Dawn shows the latter giving India more space and more diverse coverage than vice versa.
Global news from a South Asian perspective
BY Aman Malik | IN MEDIA BUSINESS |24/01/2016
‘People want to see the world from a South Asian lens. They have never had this opportunity before.’
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |17/01/2016
India and Pakistan may have deferred official talks following the Pathankot attacks but an Indian channel - India Today - began track II diplomacy of sorts by telecasting a joint broadcast with Pakistan's premier media house, Dawn News. Anchoring the programme at the India Today end, Rajdeep Sardesai declared that..
BY HARIPRASAD ATHANICKAL| IN CENSORSHIP |20/10/2015
…We don’t deserve your music because, in this new India, you are just a Pakistani agent.
Why Pakistani serials trump ours...
BY VIKRAM JOHRI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/12/2014
At last, serials with real characters, good acting, compelling storylines, and an understated tone.
BY ps sp| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/11/2014
Most media reports on the 18th summit of SAARC remained anxiously focused on the Modi-Sharif intrigue thereby missing out on informed reportage on Southasia's critical challenges
Is media obsession on security issues affecting Indo-Pak trade?
BY Rahul Mediratta| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/10/2014
DOCUMENTATION: The underreporting on trade-related activity between India and Pakistan is an important impediment to trade normalization between the two neighbouring countries.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |20/08/2014
A twin march towards the Red Zone by Imran Khan and cleric Taher Quadri in Islamabad in the late hours of August 19 and alleged reports of the Pakistani army laying seige to the PM's residence had the Indian channels scrambling for 'Live' feeds from Pakistani channels- the recently banned..
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |30/03/2010
While TOI seems to have run out of steam, perhaps temporarily, The News, the Jang group’s English daily, is going great guns. ??
The Times of India discovers Peace
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |01/01/2010
The sceptics in India will be forgiven for questioning the motives and timing of the Times Group. The first step that the Group needs to take in its Aman ki Asha project is to get the Times Now anchors to tone down their anti-Pakistan rhetoric,
Unconscious biases pervade the coverage of Pakistan
IN MEDIA MONITORING |29/02/2008
It is clear that the over riding trope that the coverage offers is of Pakistan being a failed state and a country in the grip of a civil conflict
BY sevanti ninan| IN OPINION |28/12/2007
Off and on through the evening, the bleakness in the scenario there came through from the testimony of this one man.
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/11/2007
The first few hours after the imposition of Emergency in Pakistan became a speculative free for all, backed by stock footage.
Munabao-Khokrapar link--Indo-Pak monitoring Part IV
BY chattarji| IN MEDIA MONITORING |20/03/2006
The rail link opening was covered with greater intensity and more positively by the Sindhi daily Ibrat, than by Nawai-e-Waqt
‘Meddling in Balochistan’—Indo-Pak monitoring part III
BY subarno| IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/03/2006
Balochistan became a byword for Indian interference in Pakistani affairs, mirroring a paranoia in India about Pakistani meddling in Kashmir.
Jagran and Nawai-e-Waqt stoke paranoia
BY subarno c| IN MEDIA MONITORING |08/03/2006
The Jagran analysis reiterated an old idea that India is a soft state that panders to its minority community. Indo-Pak monitoring--Part I
Indo Pak mags excel in terror coverage
BY mannika| IN MEDIA MONITORING |03/12/2005
The Herald’s cover story disproved the notion that the contours of professional media in a democracy and dictatorship differ. Indo-Pak media perspectives on terror--Part III
Indo-Pak media perspectives on terror
BY mannika| IN MEDIA MONITORING |25/11/2005
July showed that the media mindset of both Pakistan and India was to give more coverage to militant/terrorist attacks if they were associated with the West or with Kashmir.
Pakistan’s Urdu media: volatile and severe
IN MEDIA MONITORING |25/11/2005
Indo-Pak media perspectives on terror, Part II. Unlike Pakistan`s English newspapers, different media standards seemed to apply to the Urdu press which caters to a far larger, mass circulation.
CNN explores the ‘Path to Peace’
BY subarno c| IN MEDIA MONITORING |29/09/2005
The two-hour special was silent on post-Independence riots. Perhaps the ‘path to peace’ with a Muslim neighbour requires a certain degree of amnesia about Muslims within India.
‘Big Time’: Indo-Pak magazine coverage of Indo-US relations
IN MEDIA MONITORING |23/09/2005
Farooq reiterates the Pakistani media argument that the deal will lead to nuclear proliferation, but diligently contextualizes the development.
Dispelling the Spooks about Nukes’ --- III
IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/09/2005
Apart from syndicating articles and columns from western papers, Pakistan media strategically reprinted Indian media pieces critical of the pact.
‘Dispelling the Spooks about Nukes’---II
IN MEDIA MONITORING |13/09/2005
Dispelling the Spooks about Nukes—I
IN MEDIA MONITORING |10/09/2005 ?Media representations in India and Pakistan of Indo-US relations. This part looks at media representations of the Indo-US defence pact.
Indo-Pak monitoring: the General’s visit—Part II
IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/09/2005
The incisive news package drove one message home: there was a disconnect between the military junta and the political opinion in Pakistan.
Indo-Pak monitoring: the General’s visit
IN MEDIA MONITORING |07/09/2005
Advani-mania in Pakistani media
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/06/2005
The News, which normally reflects the Pakistani establishment`s line, was more fulsome in its coverage of the Advani visit.
Civil, accommodating, yet firmly nationalistic
IN MEDIA MONITORING |22/04/2005
That was the tenor of discussions on the two state broadcasters when Singh and Musharraf met in New York, though PTV did insert an irrelevant riot clip from Kashmir.
IN MEDIA MONITORING |16/04/2005
Officials of both countries wanted to use the media to get their point of view of across and the Fourth Estate, instead of following an unfettered line of thinking, acquiesced.
Covering the Singh-Musharraf meeting
IN MEDIA MONITORING |23/03/2005
The questions asked by the anchors of their correspondents reporting from New York gave an indication of what each thought was the most important point of focus for the talks.
Indian elections through a Kashmir prism
IN MEDIA MONITORING |04/11/2004
Indian elections through a Kashmir prism
Indo-Pak news monitoring, Part III
IN MEDIA MONITORING |12/09/2004
Analysts in the Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar debate implications of Indo-Pak détente.
BY shubha singh| IN MEDIA MONITORING |05/09/2004
While the major part of the coverage was positive, there was also an element that indicated the mistrust between the two countries.
Media monitoring: Discovering Pakistan
BY shubha singh| IN BOOKS |20/08/2004
Unprecedented journalistic access during the March-April period of cricket diplomacy produced a rush of goodwill stories on Pakistan in Indian newspapers.
Indian media’s cultural influence on Pakistan
BY Zainab Mahmood| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/08/2004
The reality is that cable TV does not require a visa nor does it bend under the pressure of conservative and religious lobbies.
BY chattarji| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/05/2004
The Friendship Series in Pakistan spawned coverage in the categories of ‘brotherhood/goodwill’ hype, and the political mileage sought to be derived by the BJP.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/08/2002
Our official venom-spitting machinery-the Pakistan Television (PTV) issued a subpoena to all state-certified `experts¿ and aired program after program on Kalam nomination.
NDTV argues back: Dont shoot the messenger
IN OPINION |10/06/2002
Enemy Images on Pakistan Television
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/06/2002
Pakistan television reminds viewers of their enemy every day.