Previously we had covered MQM’s photoshopped image published in various papers, and here it comes another blooper. This time by Mighty Dawn, displayed a picture of Intermittent shelling by helicopters and artillery destroying a large food storage facility, in a recent news story. Look at image yourself: CyberDera caught the whole scene, and rightfully...
Earlier today I came across this news playing on GEO television network where they showed an email sent from PM cell. The address was mentioned as pmmediaoffice gmail.com. Went into shock and awe. The government official channel is using GMAIL account. What is going on here? Thought it was some kinda mistake so I just googled the email address and...
Ufone has launched live news feed, which it says will help their customers in remaining aware of every happening in and out of Pakistan as and when it happens. With ‘Live News Feed’, Ufone users can now listen to Express News, Express 24/7 and Aaj News simply by dialing 7774 from their Ufone. Charges: Re.1 / Min + tax Rs.10 / Month...
Warid has ultimately decided to take Facebook as a serious medium. Not through a conventional fan page with a simple game, while offering iPod Shuffle for the winners. http://apps.facebook.com/waridfixthemix/ There is this one advert of Warid’s recent campaign – all you need is to complete the advert by fixing the picture. One who will complete...
The National, Dabhi Group’s English Daily Newspaper, has started its operation in Pakistan with electronic presence for time being, before going full scale print publication. Electronic Version of The National can be viewed here: http://epaper.wateen.com/ We reported long back about expected appearance of Group’s newspaper, but it got delayed due...
Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the name of country we live in. This country has its own social values and norms that 99.8 percent of the population strictly follows. I remember there was a time, when Anwar Maqsood was asked to not to write a scene where a brother and sister were supposed to be shot in a room with no one else present there. Today, the...
By Hira Zaffar 2010 has just started and if we take a look around we live in an entirely different world today as compared to what it was almost a decade ago. One might wonder that what would be the reaction of those, who never lived to see this wireless cyber age, if somehow manage to get back to life, they’ll die again instantly of surprise and...
By Hasan Mehdi A red strip was flashing on the TV screen. It read, “Bomb blast in Islamabad, 27 dead 30 injured.” Charred, disfigured bodies lying in a pool of red; were on the screen. It was utter chaos. With moans, groans, shouts of injured, hooter of ambulances, it could rightly have been described as a tragedy, a dilemma. “The authorities...
Jang’s Web Servers are having touch time these days, earlier Jang.Com.Pk was under malware attack and today, The News website is detected as malware effected by Google. Here are our past posts Jang.Com.Pk Under Malware Attack, Says Google How Malicious Code Damage a Website and its Visitors? ...
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For those who don’t know, a press release, news release, media release, or press statement is a written or recorded communication sent to members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. In other words, a Press Release is information supplied to reporters. This is an official statement or account of a...
The rural television audience in Pakistan has overtaken the urban audience, a fact that advertisers and communicators must not overlook in order to run effective media campaigns and advertisements, according to the National Establishment Survey conducted by Gallup Pakistan. It said that the urban audience measurement can be highly misleading as less...
Just saw this story appearing in ‘The Nation’ and released by Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), entitled, “Pakistanis enjoy cheapest broadband service worldwide”. As this story is released by a news agency, there are good chances that it will be picked by other newspaers as well. The reporter at APP falsely claims that this is a survey report,...
The next generation of Pakistanis, born in 2020 onward will most likely never meet a person who participated in the Pakistan Movement. They will be deprived of listening to their elders/grandparents telling the stories of brutality, hardships and the migration to Pakistan. There are histories, films, and books about this great event, but the stories...
We have covered before how Bloggers and Tweeters geared during ongoing political situation, especially Long March in Pakistan; and how quickly and effectively they are updating masses with live updates from several available personal/referral sources. Twitter has turned out to be a great tool for citizen journalists for updating their fellows primarily,...
