Listening Post - post-Musharraf Pakistan - 12 Sep 08- Part 2
- 12 years ago
The Listening Post looks at Pakistan in the post-Musharraf era.
Under President Pervez Musharraf's government, the Pakistani media was subject to extensive liberalisation with dozens of new TV channels being launched.
But as the Musharraf era neared its end stations were closed, anchor people were ordered off the air and newspapers faced censure for reporting unfavourably on the government.
What will the coalition government and Asif Ali Zardari, the new president, mean for the media now? What will the change of leadership mean for freedom of speech?
In this week's Newsbytes: Saudi TV station Al Arabiya's man in Tehran gets kicked out of Iran; problems at the recently launched BBC Arabic channel as staff vote to strike; under fire Thai PM Samak Sundaravej is told to leave office because of a TV cooking show; and American cable giant MSNBC bows to pressure after accusations of overly politicising its US convention coverage.
The largest and most expensive experiment in scientific history has just been switched on beneath the French-Swiss border. If you're not sure exactly what the Large Hadron Collider is for, perhaps our Video of the Week might help. It's a collision of physics and rap.
Under President Pervez Musharraf's government, the Pakistani media was subject to extensive liberalisation with dozens of new TV channels being launched.
But as the Musharraf era neared its end stations were closed, anchor people were ordered off the air and newspapers faced censure for reporting unfavourably on the government.
What will the coalition government and Asif Ali Zardari, the new president, mean for the media now? What will the change of leadership mean for freedom of speech?
In this week's Newsbytes: Saudi TV station Al Arabiya's man in Tehran gets kicked out of Iran; problems at the recently launched BBC Arabic channel as staff vote to strike; under fire Thai PM Samak Sundaravej is told to leave office because of a TV cooking show; and American cable giant MSNBC bows to pressure after accusations of overly politicising its US convention coverage.
The largest and most expensive experiment in scientific history has just been switched on beneath the French-Swiss border. If you're not sure exactly what the Large Hadron Collider is for, perhaps our Video of the Week might help. It's a collision of physics and rap.