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Muna Khan

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Redefining goals

IN my first week of media ethics class at graduate school in 2016, Prof Charles Whitaker dove into the issue of how journalists should use social...

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Out of tune

I RECENTLY watched Tar, a film by Todd Fields which has garnered a lot of Oscar buzz for Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of Lydia Tar, a classical...

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Beyond legal status

WHAT is citizenship good for? I’ve been thinking about this while listening to the BBC podcast “I am not a monster” about Shamima Begum. You may...

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‘Angertainment’

HAVE you ever made a decision knowing that it’s a mistake but you go against better judgement, in the hope you’ll be proven wrong? This is how I...

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The Younger Games

WHAT do Madonna and Iffat Omar have in common, other than the obvious gender? They were both victims of one of the last taboos that rears its ugly...

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The bigger picture

I WAS reminded of Neil Postman, one of the most important communication theorists, media and culture commentators of modern time, while watching the...

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Why the mainstream media is struggling to stay relevant in Pakistan

Something Jon Stewart said during an episode he did on the trouble with mainstream media in the US, last year, stuck with me: The narcissism of Donald...

06.02.2023 20

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None of the above

FELLOW Gen X readers may remember the 1985 movie Brewster’s Millions where (short version) a baseball player, played by Richard Pryor, has to spend...

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Have faith in facts

I SUSPECT many will agree about the benefits of a digital detox, ie a break from the constant stream of information on mobile devices. I enjoyed my...

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‘She told you so’

IS there anything more to say about Harvey Weinstein, the legendary film producer whose downfall came at the hands of the industry that once...

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No saviours, please

IF I could remove one word from the dictionary, it would be all the iterations of ‘saviour’. No, I’m not selling anything remotely religious...

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Virality & vileness

IN a chapter from his 2005 book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman outlined “10 flatteners” which contributed to the flattening out of global...

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Our missing stories

CELESTE Ng’s new novel Our Missing Hearts feels eerily prescient. It is set in the future in an authoritarian America where there are no personal...

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Planetary woes

THE world’s population hit eight billion on Nov 15, which the United Nations declared as the Day of Eight Billion. Twelve years ago, the population...

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MEDIA: BEYOND THE PINK

A pink explosion has come to signal October aka Pinktober aka breast cancer awareness month. This year was no different, as more organisations/brands...

20.11.2022 20

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Media on a wire

JOURNALISTS make mistakes. Even the ones that think they’re better than everyone else and then one day have spectacular falls from grace and are...

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MEDIA: THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS

Last month, the horrific death of two broadcast journalists shone a spotlight on the dangerous working conditions faced by news media professionals in...

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Misogyny, of course

IT is disappointing that former prime minister Imran Khan’s comment about journalist Gharidah Farooqi have been largely ignored when they deserve...

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Paradox of our time

IS democracy the panacea for all ills? In my avatar as a lecturer, whenever matters of (mis)governance came up, students blamed the establishment for...

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Nature vs nurture

IN 2018, inspired by Ann Patchett’s essay ‘My year of no shopping’ in the New York Times, I chose to abstain from shopping for a year. I too...

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Role reversal

IN July I had the good fortune of watching a cinema screening of Prima Facie, Suzie Miller’s one-woman play starring Jodie Comer, in London. During...

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Media state of mind

I WANTED to note two closures in the US media as both provide many lessons for us to consider in Pakistan. One is Washington Post’s media columnist...

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The country unseen

CAN art help a country come to terms with its forgotten past? I thought of this at the launch of an exhibit by Osman Yousefzada at the Victoria Albert...

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