Is ‘Modern Feminism’ turning women into sadist radicals in urban societies?

Women in most urban parts of the world are most liberated and free in the human history today. Yet in many ways they are NOT doing merely as well as men, they are doing BETTER. Women’s emancipation is one of the glories of the modern civilization making the greatest chapter in the history of freedom. So why then women in feminist movements from organization like

National Organization for Women

Professors in our Universities and Colleges

Women in Media

Still so dissatisfied, the feminists rarely acknowledge women’s progress. Yes they agree to certain things have been achieved but they still don’t reject their activist brand of feminism and always end up defining “FREE” as proof of just how entrenched patriarchy and inequality truly are. Women are so oppressed they don’t even know it. Years after years these women make claims about women in violence, women in depression, and women in eating disorders, women and workplace injustice to support their views. Over the years their claims have been closely studied leading to a finding that their victim statistics are misleading.

Consider the issue of Gender Wage Gap

It is a common saying that women earn 2/3^rd of a dollar while men earn a dollar for the same amount of work. This is constantly repeated by feminists and their supporters. After a close in depth study this has been proven false. The pay gap is simply the difference between average earning of all men and women working full time, it does not account for differences in occupation, positions, education, job tenure, or hours worked per week.

Now the wage gap activists like “American Association of University Women, National Women’s Law Centre say that even when we control these factors women still earn less” It always turns out they have neglected one or two major data points in their research.

Take the case of doctors

On the surface it looks like women physicians are clearly victims of wage discrimination, they appear to work less for the same work. But dig a little deeper and you find that women are far likely to opt for lower paying specialities like paediatrics, family medicine, gynaecology then higher paying cardiology, anaesthesiology they are also more likely to work part time and even the women who work full time put in 7 to 10 percent less hours then men. Women physicians are more likely to take long leaves of absence usually to start a family now there are exceptions but most workplace pay gaps narrow to the point of vanishing when one accounts for all these relevant factors.

Now how do the women’s advocacy groups react to this?

They say women’s choices are NOT truly free. Women, who take leaves for their families, work as paediatrics, put in fewer working hours are held back by invisible barriers or internalized oppression. According to National Organization for Women “powerful sexist stereotypes steer women and men towards different education training and career paths and family roles.” But is it really social conditioning that explains women’s vocational preferences and their special attachment to children?

I will answer it in a way that in pursuit of happiness men and women take different paths and isn't it patronizing to say that most urban women are not free self determining human beings. Another way to prove that male and female wage gap isn't true is that if women are being paid less than men, in a corporate world wouldn't the capitalist owners fire men whom they pay extra money to and give jobs only to women doing the same amount and nature of work. Why wouldn't they use this huge market benefit resulting in profits and cutting cost?

Christina Hoff Sommers (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute) “as a regular lecturer on campus I have seen young girls have fully accepted the propaganda of feminism, even in US where girls are most liberated, fortunate women on the planet yet in their feminist theory classes they are likely to learn that they are put upon by men, tyrannized by men. The more elite the school, the more advanced the degree they are more likely to take such feminist propaganda more seriously”. But this doesn't have to continue.

The time has come for women to take back feminism, reform it, correct the excess of it, repudiate the victim propaganda, get rid of women are from Venus and men are from Hell and begin the arduous task of correcting a three decades of feminist misinformation. There has to be a platform where the excess of modern radical feminism should be checked for legitimacy that should be allowed to double check their actions and theories to reform the idea for generations.

Women who suffer and are true victims of domestic violence, wage gaps, rights in general can be helped by truth and solid research and not by hysteria and hype.

Appreciate and make good use of the unprecedented freedom that you have.

With reference to video from Christina Hoff Sommers.

Understanding Feminism in South Asian Society

A chunk of work that needs to be shared

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The Engaged Feminist Intellectual 

What comes to me very strongly is that in many ways in order for what we recognize as feminism to operate as an engagement we must presume socialist norms, which are written within capitalism, because it means turning the use of capital from capitalist to socialist uses.

Where there is no agency of turning and development of capitalism not noticeable except as remote victim, today the task has been picked up by the international civil society, which I have described as "self-selected moral entrepreneurs" on many occasions. These people are confident that gender redress can be computed in terms of making the phenomena of gendering accessible by general terms provided by world governance style documents, every unit in fought over in prep com meetings, everything most simply understood, as in a PowerPoint presentation; as in knowledge management plans, decisions made by logic rather than subject-engagement.

A certain kind of anti-capitalism, not invariably present in this sector which is often dependent upon, and happily so, upon corporate funding, substitutes for a proactive socialism here. The slow and deep language learning that must accompany accessing cultural infrastructures so real long term change might be envisaged is largely absent.

The distinction between problem solving and the un coercive rearrangement of desires between doctors without Borders and primary health care, let us say, is often ignored here. This kind of "feminist engagement" is not noticeably "intellectual," if the intellectual is a person who analyses the existing situation before choosing the most convenient instrument for solving a problem that has been constructed as a "case" by looking at the grid established by people in a completely different level of capitalist society.

In this sort of below the radar rural situation, in eastern India, at least (that is another problem, we tend to generalize too soon, because of the alliances of the international civil society with the benevolent feudal feminism of the global South), the problem-solving approach can apply to clearly visible cases of domestic violence.

The Three Pillars of Modern Radical Feminism

I see three pillars to this new form of Modern Radical Feminism being engraved within the urban societies all over the world.

• Dignity
• The word NO
• Men

Dignity:

Tammy Bruce (Board of Directors on National Organization of Women) says “I feel pride and some guilt for this designation, Pride because feminism has pushed forward some very important and needed changes and guilt because it has done a lot of damage”. For radical modern feminists dignity stands for two things

•  It should be the core of what feminism should be about
•  A woman should be able to freely choose her path in life

College students in the western world aspires to be in any field such as lawyers, journalists, artists, doctors, engineers but they would not choose a wife or a mother to be a career path or even consider it one of the paths to follow. If this is a given factor to a college student today it is not just considered a no go as a career but it is discouraged by the feminists by labelling it offensive, sexist, embarrassing and anti-feminist. It has happened to many women who are pro-marriage and family life, their views are not event considered as ones to be heard or acknowledged by the radical feminists. This happened to a guest contributor Susan A. Patton at Princeton University in 2013 who published a letter stating that marriage and being a mother and a wife needs to be acknowledged equally as other career choices by college students and she suffered the criticism beyond our expectation by the feminist groups.

When what was due to keep the dignity of a woman was to value and respect all responsible choices. “While talking of dignity I can’t see anything less dignified that a woman in the sexual arena act like men or ought to act like men. Is this what a truly liberated woman wants?” Tammy. Think of casual sex and think of it like men do and what they aspires to? The answer to this question on an international level is a ‘YES’ by the women.

• Feminism has downplayed the desire of women to have family
• Simultaneously hyping the rewards of career and casual sex around the globe

Not exactly the recipe of success and happiness

The word NO

There is great power in the word No. The consequences of using the word No to define feminism has been catastrophic in the last 3 decades. Particularly the time when Pakistan met the idea of feminism while it was already evolved from the original narrative, women who fought NOT to be treated as a sex object have been more objectified than ever, you see it on tv, internet, advertisements, magazines, newspapers and now we see teenage girls pursuing teenage boys like boys used to do some decades ago. How did this happen?

Because feminism advocated that women should behave like men, whatever men did and however they did it, that is what women should do. Feminists were angry at men but they wanted to be like men at the same time. No wonder our society is so confused women are robbing themselves to say no to this, solution is to take that power back.

Saying No means that I will not be defined by anyone else NOT by feminists and not by men’s sexual desires. That is female power.

Men

Whether feminists agree or not, it was men who gave up their monopoly to give women the right to vote, men who invented birth control, refrigerator, washing machine and so many other devices that liberated women and men are different from women. Academics like to speculate that “men and women are basically the same but they like to socialized differently.” Bobbi J. Carothers Harry T. Reis (men and women are from earth Journal of personality and social psychology Vol 104 no 2 Feb 2013). Moreover sexes need each other for example women civilize men, its what they are suppose to do but in order to do so, women must

• Preserve their dignity
• Not be afraid to use the word No
• See men as partners NOT as competitors or oppressors

That is the solution for a society to be stronger otherwise it will only get worse, and by the time we will realize it the differences would be of such grand level that we will only be remembered as ignorant fools who damaged the society from a grass root level.

(with reference to Tammy Bruce's Video)

The Conflicting Tree of Belief

The biggest conflicts humans have faced within a society are associated or based on the word belief. The word holds the ability to penetrate and define a state of mind about a self sustaining idea or theory using sentimental values as a tool to incentivize inner peace or identification of self to set barriers and laws based on a hierarchy of superiority outlining social, moral and spiritual contentment that may be applicable on a person or group of people with similar weaknesses and strengths to adapt it and make it ultimate with or without a scientific logical method or an explanation.

“Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.”

Richard Dawkins

The idea of belief grows like a seed that doesn’t tolerate a conflicting idea that may question the basics or detailed explanation based on rational thinking. A human brain has boundaries but no limits; the potential of a human brain has the ability to expand like the universe. “A pattern of findings demonstrates that the anatomical structure of adult human brain can change very quickly, specifically during the acquisition of new, named categories,” said by Researcher Veronica Kwok of the University of Hong Kong and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This can be understood in a way that process of human evolution is limitless and is happening fast.

“Beliefs are propositions about the relations among things to which those who believe have made some kind of commitment that could be pragmatic or emotional. A proposition's credibility may appear obvious from experience or a proposition may seem to be the most prudent assumption on which to act. In either case the commitment has pragmatic basis. Emotional commitment to a proposition occurs when a person wants to feel a need for it to be true because of what its truth implies about things that matter.” As suggested by Ward H. Goodenough

Goodenough’s study does not include ‘rational thinking’ as a major pillar to base belief as an act to associate the ultimate both religion and science are trying to find. Historically we have lost a lot of information that we still have hard time understanding and decoding how it happened. But the information did leave some clues or proves of their existence in fossils and monuments and stories and myths. Using this statement to define everything that has been logically proven under scientific laws is something a belief hinders and rejects to exist and uses sentimental and psychological tools to reassure its existence thus belief breaks certain boundaries but rests in limits constrained by pre-existing ideas of the ones who understood the need and use of belief to rule or remain in power.

The capacity of belief cannot be endless because it demands submission of a person’s thought process. The idea of belief and energy are like two brothers fighting for royalty, where both have suppressed and oppressed each other in the course of history through a chain of command that uses similar tools like fear, spirituality, hatred, diplomacy and peace all leading to conflict for the gain of power or survival.

Belief resists the idea of knowing beyond limits, it escapes it by either refusing to acknowledge the endless capacity and capability of our brains to understand, adhere and possess infinite knowledge or the second escape is by putting barriers to the endless capacity of our brains to understand, adhere and possess infinite knowledge to label yourself superior among men and inferior to belief or energy. A human brain has tissues just like all other muscles bound by to give an outcome based on its use. The way we can build muscles on our arms and legs we can also train our brains to enhance our capacity of thinking and refining our thoughts for conclusions. This makes the limit of thoughts to become endless as associated with the diverse factors of both pure and social science. Yet we have no quarrel on accepting the existence of time and energy to be the building block of life and existence.

Hence it is difficult to rely on belief for conclusion rather than rational research justifying the findings and not the belief itself to an individual, leading belief not to require logical acceptance to many findings and proven theories. Since submission to a higher power can be diplomatically more rewarding but it will end up creating copies of information that seizes the idea of growth in all aspects that cross limits known sacred to a belief with slight alterations while energy remains neither inferior nor superior it may vary in magnitude but does not vary in core and nature.

The tool used by belief here is merely the idea of growth that grows different branches all connected to the same roots and refusing to accept the existence and possibility of different trees around it. It doesn’t mean the fruit it grows would not be sweet or the sweetest it may be, but the sweet is not the only taste a fruit is bound to have, unless all you consciously or unconsciously want to taste is only sweet nothing other than that is unacceptable even if it exists naturally too. This can be the core of conflict between energy and belief, the science and religion. Mostly led by belief through superiority based on the factors that offer awards like acceptance and endorsement in society, power in society, end of resentment within a group or a feud.

The idea of putting all your queries on to a higher being or a more purposeful existence of God and His most valued followers, leading to an end of your purpose or keeping you within a barrier or a group that may only end up making you a branch, a fruit or a leaf of just one tree standing over the same roots.

Insensitivity of Pakistan to tragedy (Laughter on tragedy and violence in Cinemas)

Death is a disturbing sight usually constitutes an awful spectacle. It intrigues a phenomenon of insensitivity demanding empathy and attention of concern. But we as Pakistanis have lost it and made it an amusement to justify our ignorance to humanity. Many cultures have depicted death, violence and tragedy as entertainment only a few have managed to make it humorous amusement, we have not realized it yet we should be put right at the top of that list. This turmoil is justified in the name of religious sacrifices or battles according to a general belief prevalent in Pakistan, but we Pakistanis have enhanced the scope to a day to day incident and our media made it a theatre of tragedy.

We Pakistanis share common traits with ancient Romans that we can witness if we would hit the cinemas, the only entertaining activity left to common people after food. Romans viewed bloodshed of humans as entertainment. The elites from English Renaissance theatre, also known as Elizabethan theatre in England from 1562 and 1642 also did the same. Common genres of the period depicting English or European history included violence and death. It should ring bells once we turn on our news channels or Facebook accounts which is filled with Taliban videos, disturbingly gaining thousands of likes and comments both pro and anti. Yet this remains on our radar 24/7 if we don’t see a terrorist attack killing none it wouldn’t be a news to us.

Shakespeare's plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard III and Henry V, belonged to this category of death and violence, so does the Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and George Peele's Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First all of these depict tragedy, death and violence as amusement.Later came the term “Dark humour” which became a more educated label for such entertainment.Historical plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576. The only difference was the act depicting tragedy, battles, and bloodshed, was that it was fiction inspired from the real life incidents leaving a strong moral or sometimes sarcasm to the spectators and society. So people could learn from it despite all the hindrances it continued to be bolder. But you don’t see that happening in Pakistan, the theatre and its informal education has lost its value among the potential audience.

Tragedy, death and violence were amazingly popular genres. Many plays managed to live for centuries like Marlowe's tragedies,Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta are only a few. Theatre even in darkages never left without a moral. The morals spectators enjoyed the most were “revenge dramas”, such as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's greatest (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth) were composed during this period as well as many others leaving strongest morals to date. How we Pakistanis can be related to this is exactly the moral, that we get none, “revenge, retribution, retaliation, rebellion mean nothing to us. Everything falls under the entertainment leaving us more insensitive to the real incidents and not fiction.

Speaking of dark humour as we know today were called “comedy”, yes Comedies were common, too where people laughed. A sub-genre developed in this period was the city comedy, which dealt with life in the city of London, after the fashion of Roman New Comedy they became happy whileour city issues remain to be the basic human rights, survival, and religion. These topics are still not felt to shake consciousness among us. Certain issue like religion still remains a sacred taboo in Pakistan that cannot appreciate controversial or contradicting views.

After about 1610 in the West, the new hybrid sub-genre of the tragicomedy became the centre of attention. Spectators’ laughter started getting suppressed; audience became more conscious of their theatrical experiences. Whereas in Pakistan this evolution didn’t occur, only the cultural stories relying highly on the imagination became the source of education, but with the advent of religious extremism in society even that was put to an end. It only took a few decades to completely put this education to an end, and spread the word of violence and tragedy in the name of religion showing value to the evolved out of the darkages.

Religious fanatics in Pakistan follow footsteps of the Romans killing for fun, raping for sexual pleasures and all of it gets easily justified under the umbrella of religion that nobody can be certain of and question. Criticism also doesn’t reach them, because the majority in Pakistan accepts it as either a religious conflict or religion itself, the dead gets labelled “Murtid” (Non-believer) so easily and deserving a brutal death gets justified.Leaving spectators entertained with an inspiration, Never does it get labelled “Extremism” that is punishable. This has become a day to day exercise and even the silent spectators have joined the club, slowly penetrating insensitivity among us. Now once a Shia, Christian, Baloch, Ahmadi, children, women get killed it’s no big deal.Bombs explode kill thousands doesn’t do much to Pakistanis yet some smile others stay quiet.

Fighting extremism has to go a long way in Pakistan since our society does not know what social change could be to them. We haven’t learnt anything from our past. Yet we set forth our critic and keep adding fuel to the fire of extremism on daily basis. We refuse to identify our enemy; we may come to a point where we can agree upon blaming the “Mullahs” but refuse to open our minds. We are immune to tragedy and are cold at heart, we enjoy being insensitive now. We are a country run by Islam leaving everything to Allah and the judgement day that is our escape If we consider extremism wrong in general we instantly come to point where we justify the acts of terror and we have been cold to this issue for so many years that now it has developed into humour.

Tragedy, pain, agony, death has become material of laughter in our society today. Our cinemas are reviving since 2008, people in urban areas can now have an activity other than eating food. Movies like ShoaibMansoor’s “Bol” (Speak) and “Khuda key liey” (In the name of God) have brought families to the cinemas a few years ago and they have highlighted social taboos like the role of “Mullahs” and religion in context to taboos such as violence, death, child molestation and women in our society. The subjects highlighted are disturbing on its own, (seeing ourselves on the screen being mocked and getting a reality check). But for me these negative highlights diminished when I experienced a much more disturbing social act, people in Pakistan laugh in cinemas while watching a child being molested by truck drivers (quoting a scene from “Bol”) that was funny to people. The hall laughed and I sat numb and shocked to see their reaction to the disturbance and tragedy on the screen.

How did this happen, we were taught in schools to obey the prerequisites of Islam based on “peace and humanity” when did we lose it I really can’t say. But it definitely has a lot to do with our beliefs and religion that failed to educate us unlike the theatre in the West. After the Peshawar attacks I believe all humans in Pakistan were in shock. Even the loss of 140 children in APS (Army Public School) didn’t do much to raise a consciousness in people and reclaim their sensitivity. A handful of people raising their voice against extremism stand isolated with threats of being killed.Neither the army nor the political parties’ wishes to back them, why!Its simple because it is not a big enough reason and the people in general are insensitive to this issue.

A few weeks ago I went to watch Aamir Khan’s latest movie “PK”. There is a scene when Aamir Khan goes to the railway station’s platform to receive his friend Sanjay Dutt and suddenly a bomb explodes killing many the very instant. Aamir Khan survives and as he sits in a shock … numb, I heard a roar of laughter rising from over 300 seats. The disturbance and shock of the scene itself died that very instant and the disturbance and shock coming from the crowd’s reaction took over and slapped my consciousness. I was disgusted of the people I was watching the movie with. How Roman could we be and how inhumane we were I cannot express.

The movie “Bol” was released in 2011, and “PK” was released in December 2014. In last three years over 50,000 people have lost their lives as a result of terrorist attacks, but their loss of lives has only added humour to our lives mocking their pain and tragedy either through our silence or through our pro-Taliban approach. Yes, this is who we are, we laugh at the loss of lives and nothing matters to us. The religious extremist mind-set has sucked sanity and sensitivity out of us. The few raising their voice against extremism stand alone to be opposed by 20 million people who laugh at the loss of lives and eat popcorn on it. They come out of the theatre without being bothered about their insensitivity proved not to be silent spectators they are bred to be.

The graphic images on the television showing blood stains, bullet holes, and wounded children yet again failed to kindle humanity among us. It’s going to be a month in a few days since the Peshawar attack on APS, nothing has changed, people can still sleep, Lahore High Court continues to free more accused terrorists, while others roam freely, we can laugh at the effectees, or simply forget their suffering,although the majority condemned the attack but they did not condemn the attackers.Yes they were Taliban but just not humans rather a mind-set that we all share shamelessly without a conscious analysis. The darkages and the Roman culture still relates us, violence still stands as the highest authority challenging and ridiculing humanity in the name of religion or beliefs. What would make a difference is empathy for humanity, or we can continue to spread bloodshed and laugh at it as well as get entertained by the death of others. This is what we will pass on to our generations with a similar violent abstract belief depicting extremism. Killing in the name of God or entertainment we should not differentiate rather just realize or may even feel bad about as humans so we could be more sensitive to humanity.

The social turmoil of getting labeled in my beloved city Lahore

As a professional we get to follow certain rules, the dos and don’ts that, we may also know as a job description. When we move in towards our professional goal/s we also get a designation that is who we are recognized as a person in a professional sphere. Moreover we get the similar treatment based on our labels that we may lose once our daily shifts come to an end. But the society that I belong to doesn't believe in working-shifts coming to an end; our labels continue to speak for ourselves till we either end up believing in the labels as our whole truth or we become friends with the labels upon us, quoting it as a social norm. Either way in Lahore it is getting difficult for individuals like me to think and see themselves beyond labels that we get on our never ending shifts.

My society shares a trait that makes people impatient and intolerant towards anything and everything that is 1. New to them, 2. Doesn't go with their limited or unlimited mindset, which is why we believe in judging everything based on our little exposure to the people with similar mindset. Yet we enjoy calling ourselves as liberals, progressive, open minded people living a life that developed countries can never achieve and we should be proud of our denial.

In my Muslim Punjabi Educated society it is not the appearance, language, understanding, exposure, brought up or academics, that puts a label on me but it is mere one thought that; “I know better than everybody around me” who is what and what is what. Yes we are born genius and we get challenged whenever we see a person wearing black we would label him a Shiite, a women in jeans is no doubt a slut, a women in burka is the most pious person around us, and a women holding a cigarette is a bad mother/wife/women and should be killed if she dares to smoke publically, a guy without a job is stupid and doesn't work hard enough, a man with a beard will always be wise and the wisdom grows as the inches add up to the length of his facial hair. This is what we know and some prerequisites that we grow up with under ordinary circumstances like average school, average parents and an average job.

We all are aware of it, we might even sarcastically criticize this turmoil with humour, despair or ignorance, yet we don’t do much to change it. Once our work shifts end, we continue to socially kill ourselves by accepting the labels we get and our only survival falls on not becoming a resistance to the chain that recruits another person with a mindset of a born genius who knows it all. I am not the person who has a solution to this noble cause don’t judge me like that, I'm just a guy who brought this up on a blog. The words I speak are not my own.

10 highly paid jobs in media industry of Pakistan

Media industry has been the apple of people’s eyes for over a decade now in Pakistan. It has attracted both young students and professionals to invest their time and money to make a career out of it. Many universities have taken up the media studies in the last decade and have tried to flourish it with fresh minds. But considering the media industry to be a rather young industry in Pakistan, the institutes have failed to provide students an understanding that is more career-oriented. Students themselves have also problems learning about the media industry and career making due to our immaculate education system in Pakistan.

There is no help for fresh students anywhere to form their minds towards contributing professionally and with vision to change and create something on their own, even if that means a career.

Students should be given a career outline that can help them be the new trend setter through the media industry of Pakistan. So if there is no help on government, professional or on the academic level, it should not demotivate any ideas, creativity and imagination of the students and young graduates wanting to pursue their careers in media industry.

Following are the jobs that can help students figure out what do they want to do. If you would work on your resume and your portfolio in a way that it actually shows your direction and help you build up and filter the confusion for pursuing your idea of the industry, I am pretty sure people reading this can go the distance and build their dream careers out of this growing industry in Pakistan.

1. Graphic Designer

Graphic Designers should have aesthetics and be skilled with software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw. Media Industry needs a lot of Graphic Designers and are willing to give them an entry level job with a salary starting from 30,000 PKR a month and that can go up to as much as 3 Lacs a month if you have the right skills and aesthetics for the job, nobody can take away your skills and talent as a Graphic Designer and there is room for everybody in the industry so be humble and focus on yourself.

2. 2D Animator

Media Industry in Pakistan has a high demand for 2D animators, whether it’s a city like Islamabad or if it’s a city like Gawadar, 2D animators are looked for everywhere, they can be paid between 40,000 PKR a month to 3 Lacs month, and the work is never ending, it does require a lot of time to learn but if you have the creative mind you can pick things up from day one in this field.

3. 3D Animator

This may sound similar to 2D animation but it’s a whole different ball game. I am pretty sure that most of the people studying and practicing 3D animations would be more job makers than job seekers in the next few years. This field is literally that rewarding in Pakistan you can have your own projects from all over the world and bingo you are all set for life.

4. Researcher

Ever slept in your class out of a boring lecture where you think the professor is repeating the same stuff over and over again, well 90% of the chance is that you have slept through the Research class. This is the biggest contribution you can do for the Media Industry in Pakistan. If you have mastered the skills of researching you will be a globally known person in 5 years, this is where you can express your ideas to a maximum level and begin earning money from 50,000 PKR to 10 Lacs on research projects.

5. D.O.Ps (Director of Photography) or Cinematographer

The electronic media literally revolves around this person, there are very few DOPs in Pakistan that actually know what they’re doing, most of the work the channels are doing these days bring DOPs from abroad because the ones that are working here are so busy with loads of projects upon them they cannot pull all things off. They also earn through projects that can be weekly, biweekly, monthly or yearly and out of these projects regardless of their duration they can earn from 1 Lac to 15 Lacs per project and the numbers can even go over that.

6. Production Designer

This person is whom the budget is revolved around since the idea of how a film, commercial, drama would be executed is decided by this person, he can earn through projects and jobs both and depending on the projects they earn around 1 lac to 15lacs a month.

7.  Sound Designer

Well if I’ll ask you what is your favourite show on TV many of you would say “Coke Studio” that was an idea of a Sound Designer, if you know your work and worth you can do wonders with this field by earning around 1 lac to 10 lacs on every other project, where to get them search this field more and you can explore so many opportunities and work by learning a few software combining them with your aesthetics and you will change your lives forever. This is a very exciting field and involves a lot of travel and thrills.

8. Camera Operator

If you think this is something not that rewarding, well so far all of the above jobs need some time to penetrate in, but if you are a good Camera Operator you are already needed by every single news channel as well as every other production house, as well as every other advertising agency as well as all media vendors. They should call Camera Operators as most wanted because what they do is what the whole industry revolves around. On jobs they are the first ones who get settled and can dwell into more elaborated jobs and projects from the first week, understanding camera and lens is the key and you would be earning between 25,000 PKR to 5 lac PKR a shift that lasts for 8hrs, and a projects are generally between a day to a month. I don’t know any Camera Operator who does not have 5 running projects any time of the year and earning between the same figures I mentioned.

9. Production Manager

Well they are responsible for managing everything from shoots, to experts, to link up and to co-ordinate if you think you can work on time and provide expertise and manage funds well, then this is the right job for you. In Pakistan, assistant producers and directors take years to make a fortune in this field but Production Managers they are right at the top, they often work on commission and they charge a lot of commission with authority, you will find very few educated production managers with aesthetics and degrees but if you become one then you would be on levels that you cannot imagine. Even the projects that don’t have a lot of budget these production managers can draw money out of those in a big way that range from 1 lac to 2 lacs a project.

10. Anchor

And finally the over-rated anchor that every girl wants to be and every guy who thinks is good looking thinks can pull it off instantly. Well they don’t have much demand for guys but if they become one and aim to become one can earn huge numbers that start from 50,000 PKR and goes up to 20 lacs a month, they are very well connected and are the face of a news or entertainment channel and it does require a lot of skill for presentation as well as journalistic aesthetics. It is not an easy job but when you develop a face value, you are all hooked with counting cash.

There is a culture of jealousy, back stabbing, office politics and not giving other people the room to grow. This is all a myth if you belong to such a nature you would never be as successful as the person who has more character that sees himself beyond these random weaknesses. Avoid them and build your career with self-respect and dignity, there is room for everybody and nobody can beat you to what you are good at and you cannot beat anybody to what the other person is good at. So have a big heart and you shall be rewarded immensely.

Tourism of Pakistan: A lost tale

After the killings of 10 foreign climbers in Gilgit Baltistan last month in June 2013, tourism continues to suffer. Tourists from all over the world now fear and are cancelling their organized visits to Pakistan. Among which Kyle Dempster a US based climber writes in this regard to Pakistan Tehreek e Taliban who took the responsibility of killing the tourists as a protest that moved the general public on social, economical and moral grounds, and also continues to devastate the lives of many in the Northern region.

The Northern areas of Pakistan where the 7 highest peaks of the world stand gloriously strong under the biggest glaciers of the world have always been the major attraction for the adventure tourism industry climbers, hikers, cyclists and hikers from all over the world.

An American climber, Kyle Dempster wrote a letter to Tehreek e Taliban Paksitan registering his protest against the killings of the ten tourists and highlighting the importance of tourism in Pakistan. Dempster said that the climbers who are targeted were in their own mosque as Pakistan is “the Mecca of climbers”. Describing the northern mountain series, he wrote, ‘most stunning minarets on earth pierce sharply into the heavens, and from these summits we find our understanding of purity, beg for mercy, and cleanse ourselves of everything extraneous to the very place inside ourselves.’

In his letter, Dempster also wrote about the financial problems that the tourism industry would face that could have benefited Pakistan, and yet he supports their agenda on drone attacks and has been activist against the misuse of power but utterly opposes Taliban’s actions over the foreign climbers. His letter triggered a wave of awareness among people all over Pakistan who understand the need of Tourism, development and revenue.

The recent incident has jolted the tourism industry and the people who depend on tourism in these areas are hopeless and ready for another year of little tourism.

The famous mountaineer and the president of an adventure tourism company, Nazir Sabir says that the government does not have a favorable approach for giving tourists visas to the foreigners, they claim to give tourist visas in lacs but the number never exceeded 50,000, not even in the “good times”. Criticizing the role of the government over tourism policy, Sabir said, “I have given my life to the mountains but I have never seen Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) or the Government allowing tourists visa to the foreigners.”

According to Sabir, if only the tourism industry would be dealt seriously and security is provided to the locals and foreigners, the whole Pakistan can be fed through it. ‘Taliban and Government do not understand what rich tourism is being killed all out of ignorance and corruption, he added.

Summer is considered the tourism season in this region, later it gets too cold for climbing. A local, Farkhanda Ahmad said that the locals are not extremists, they welcome the foreign tourists with open arms, and many people depend on them for livelihood. The incident was the failure of security agencies and it has ruined the image of tourism in Pakistan globally. The deaths of the then tourists will affect the livelihood of millions.

Government and the local tourist guides claimed that after a decade, the adventure tourism picked up the pace and but after the incident thousands of tourists have cancelled their visits. Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation PTDC claims that almost 1/3rd of the overall tourists have cancelled their visit to Pakistan, and the remaining 65% are not linked with the adventure tourism that involves trekking, camping, hiking and climbing mountains.

The managing director of TDCP (Tourism Development Corporation Punjab) stated that there was a huge increase of 30% tourists in Pakistan this year which could exceed the revenue generated last year that was around 700 million dollars per anum but now it would suffer immensely he said “the tourism industry is largely linked with the major cities such as Islamabad, Lahore, Pindi and Karachi that is the route for the tourists, after the incident at Nanga Parbat now people are scared and economy suffers”.

The incident has not only harmed the tourism industry but it has also halted many development programs of various NGOs and other public welfare organizations. Rehman said “the institutes and infrastructure development consists of many foreigners working on voluntarily basis, due to their security reasons they along with their current projects have also been stopped leaving the beneficiaries who were underprivileged families and children are now also stranded.”

People from Gilgit Baltistan condemned the attacks on the foreign tourists while the no proper action has yet been announced by the Government or the army to secure the development in the troubled parts of Pakistan that can be the source of some serious revenue.

The director of a local travel agency that has been very active for organizing tours in the area in the recent years said that the current Government claims to reform the security issues, if they would seize on providing this basic necessity then there is no difference between this government and the ones before it.

Recalling the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s era, Sabir said that Bhutto started the tourism division in early 70s and later developed a tourism policy for this which had never been implemented. According to him, the main reason of failure in implementing a proper tourism policy is that we have never been able to assess our potential and “never been introduced to the world” that could generate immense revenue for Pakistan; and due to this we have suffered a lot in the aftermath of 9/11.

Shiite Protest at Governor House Live day 3

The cause about to be high jacked. The Shia protest that began as the cause gradually has gained strength, the main protest at the Governor House Lahore grew and more than 5000 people have joined in the rotation cycle of daily protests. The speeches on the deaths of Hazara community is an irony yet it has united a part of Muslim community. Yet the demand to bring over army still stands in a question. Lashkar e Jhangwi for the second time has taken the responsibility for the deaths of Shiite Hazara community. The Shiite community demands Chief Justice to take notice and announce state of emergency on Balochistan. Killing has become a daily practice within the borders of Balochistan.

The irony is this is how we know Balochistan a playground for religious extremists to slaughter innocent lives. While the government, army, intelligence, military police they would all turn their backs on it.

There a different types of people here at the protest. Many standing for the cause, many to bring their organizations and their political parties to build a good image. Using it as a tool MQM has been the most successful candidate for recording their 10 minute protest and standing towards the media DSNG’s.

This is not a political protest, if the main leadership would not realize their duties, Pakistan does seem to quickly move towards a violent division as we have witnessed in 70’s,

Lashkar e Jhangwi is also being advertised as a major terrorist organization moreover, Shiite community is unifying and chanting against the crackdown of the Quetta to save the people. Political parties have proven to be a complete waste for providing safety to the Shiite community.

People who claim President Asif Ali Zardari as Shiite and former Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani as Shiite should give it a second thought whether they are even concerned about any of the serious issues in Pakistan.

In the past 4 years we have suffered shortage of electricity, we kept quiet:

We have suffered inflation at its peak, we kept quiet, political instability we kept quiet. We have suffered joblessness, we have suffered injustice, we kept quiet, we have suffered bhatta, we have suffered bad standards of education, we have suffered excessive spending over not so important issues but most of all we have suffered infinite killings on random suicide attacks all over Pakistan. But now the evil has moved towards an ongoing curse of sectarian violence, yet our record tells us we would still not stand united for long.

Lady said “please spread the word, we want a complete crackdown of Quetta unless this terrorist community would be completely diminished. Is this lashkar e jhangwi more powerful than army?”

The whole world turns a cold shoulder towards the Shiite agony and loss of lives.

People are growing in number people are also bringing food for the protestors and are making an effort to make it easier for them to maintain their protest through cold weather. Nobody is tired nobody wants to go home, everybody is playing their part. We talk about peace yet this protest has shown peace as their cause to be brought to Quetta and also have peacefully kept their patience and agenda to keep up their aim to bring a crackdown to Quetta.

Even announcements of lost and found are playing their part on maintaining peace at the protest. This could be a much stronger blow to the government, intelligence, army and FC to be pressurized. Yet the importance should be felt and should be dealt accordingly as quickly as possible.

DAWN TV a brief crititcal analysis

1. Introduction to Dawn News

Dawn News is Pakistan's 24 hour Urdu news channel. The channel is based in Karachi where the head office is located. The channel Dawn News is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), which is Pakistan's largest English language media group. The test transmission of the station occurred on May 25, 2007, and the channel went live on July 23, 2007. On May 15, 2010, Dawn News converted into an Urdu news channel after successful test transmission of four hours a day. The conversion was due to its financial crisis and thin viewership in the country as most people in Pakistan could not understand English. Now Express 24/7 replaced it as the Pakistan's only English news channel for a brief time, which was also then shut down by Express Media Group for financial reasons.

2. Ownership of Dawn Media Group

The Dawn Media Group is the trading name of Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Ltd a Pakistani media company. It started using this trading name in 2008 "to reflect the Group's transformation from a publisher of newspapers and magazines into a powerful multimedia group" (from a 2011 corporate brochure).

The Karachi based group is owned by the powerful Haroon and Saigol families. It's CEO is Hameed Haroon, and its chairman is Amber Haroon Saigol, daughter of the previous chairman Mahmoud Haroon and the 11th richest individual in Pakistan in 1993 (the only year that the Pakistani government has published the wealth of the country's richest citizens). A list over the 40 richest families in Pakistan, published in 2006, ranks the Saigol family as the sixth richest and the Haroons and the 16th richest.

3. Popularity of Dawn News

Dawn News' Test Transmission was launched by former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. The complete launch of the channel coincided with the result of the Supreme Court case which cleared the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for his judicial campaign as a result of his suspension by General Pervez Musharraf. The channel was initially housed in Haroon House, the head-office of PHPL, but later moved to its current premises in West Wharf, Karachi.

4. Structure

The Dawn Media Group covers three areas: print media (organised as a separate division called Dawn Group of Newspapers), broadcast media, and internet media:

Print media: Dawn, its flagship newspaper. The Star, an evening newspaper. Herald, a current affairs monthly. Spider, a monthly Internet magazine. Aurora, a marketing and advertising bi-monthly

Broadcast media:  Dawn News, 24-hour news channel, broadcasting in English 2007-2010, but since 2010 in Urdu. City FM 89, a music radio channel

Internet media: Dawn.com, a news web site

Exhibitions: Dawn Education Expo, annually education festival

5. History

The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah launched the Dawn newspaper in the 1940s- it is the oldest English language newspaper in Pakistan. The Dawn Media Network launched DawnNews, Pakistan’s first English language news and current affairs television channel, according to DawnNews they vow to "provide its viewers with a medium that is responsible, credible and balanced.

After a brief test transmission, the channel went live on July 23, 2007. Over past three years the channel has established its fame being the most credible voice in the murky pool of electronic media, in Pakistan.

Probably, the most talented and hard working journalists of present time have been associated with the channel since the beginning. Some of them left to pursue their career in the same profession. Nonetheless, with superb hard-work and dedicated they converted the dream into a reality.

Keeping in view the public demand, Dawn News has decided to launch a separate Urdu news channel. But before launching the separate channel, it has started a three-hour Urdu transmission within its English channel’s airtime. The purpose is to get valuable feedback from the viewers. So far the feedback is tremendous.

Dawn News has broken a number of big stories. It was Dawn News which exclusively broadcast the footage of the assassin of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It was Dawn News that got official confirmation from Pakistan that lone surviving gunman of Mumbai terror attacks – Ajmal Kasab – was a Pakistani.

Besides, Dawn News has covered major events including Lal Masjid operation, lawyers’ movement, military operations in tribal areas and 2008 general elections. Most of the time, the channel beat its rivals despite limited resources.

Dawn News transmission is watched in all urban areas of Pakistan. It also has access to the rural population, wherever the cable reaches. DawnNews is in agreement with several satellite TV channels, which include BBC World, Sky News, ABC News and Al-Jazeera and can be watched in the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In U.K. it can be accessed through Sky cable at Channel 845.

Programs of Dawn News in 2012

· KHABARDAAR

· Khabrain

· News Night with Talat

· Mast Mornings with Maira

· Equinox

· A Taste of Fusion

· The First Blast

· No Reservations

· Sport Zone

· Maximum Masala

· Doosri Kahani

· Reporter

· Raid

· Mano ya Na Mano

Dawn News presents comprehensive and analytical news bulletins, covering stories from all over Pakistan and provides relevant and timely updates minute by minute. At DawnNews, we ensure the provision of clear, accurate and reliable information.

Our bulletins also give you exclusive investigative and follow-up reports put together by our team of seasoned journalists.

1. Dawn News keeps you updated with the latest headlines every hour on the hour.

Headlines throughout the day. Dawn News keeps you updated every hour on the hour with its news bulletins.

2. News at 2 is your late night news roundup bulletin that gives you the details of the previous day’s events. EVERYDAY at 02:00 PST

3. News at 6 is your early morning news bulletin that provides international and local coverage of the current and previous day’s events. EVERYDAY at 06:00 PST

4. News at 8 sets the agenda for the entire day and helps you start your day on the right note. EVERYDAY at 08:00 PST

5. News at Noon is your mid-day bulletin that brings you news as it happens. EVERYDAY at 12:00 PST

6. News at 3 is your afternoon bulletin that keeps you abreast of the day’s events. EVERYDAY at 15:00 PST

7. News at 6 is your evening news roundup bulletin that sums up the events of the entire day. EVERYDAY at 18:00 PST

8. News at 9 is a comprehensive, prime time news bulletin that provides minute by minute updates and reviews of major events taking place in Pakistan and across the globe. EVERYDAY at 21:00 PST

9. News at 11 wraps up the entire day’s events, providing you with insightful and detailed updates. EVERYDAY at 23:00 PST

News night with Talat

Based on a Journalist’s opinion who is known for his investigative journalism. He has traveled from Waziristan to the West Bank Palestine for exclusive scoops and news.  Airing Time: Monday – Friday 10:05 PM

Target Point

Asma Chaudhry targets the political and social issues that affect the daily lives of the people of Pakistan. Asking clear cut, sharp and piercing questions of decision-makers, Asma homes into the heart of the issue to get you the answers you deserve. Airing Day: MONDAY-FRIDAY 11:05 PM

Introduction to Mass Communication

Contents

•         Introduction

•         What is communication?

•         Definitions of different scholars.

•         Conceptualizing Communication

•         Points of Convergence and Divergence by Katharine Miller

•         Points of convergence and Diversions from definitions of different scholars

•         References

Introduction

The term communication in derived from the Latin word “commnus” that means “common” and is used in reference to community. The word communication itself relates to the same family as it develops a society. Communication is a social interaction through “symbols” and “message”. It does not refer to verbal explicit and intentional transmission of message alone. We can say that communication is a process of giving or exchange information signals or message as by talk gestures or writing.

What is Communication?

Communication is the transfer of information from person to person, creature to creature or point to point. Communication may be in the form of sound transmission for example human speech, the beating of drum, bird calls or the slap of beaver’s tail on the water to warn for an approaching danger. It may also be in the form that requires sight for example writing, pictures, signal flags, gestures or the dance of the honey bee to signify to the other bees in the hive that it has found a source of pollen or it may be in a form that requires the utilization of the other senses.

Communication requires a sender and a receiver, thus the communication can occur across vast distances in time and distance which shares a communication commonality. It is shaped into a process of exchange of information covered over steps and parts.

Nature of communication varies widely and it covers many different opinions, which contradicts with variable steps involved in communication. Information itself can have a lot of different concepts depending on the context and circumstances.

People often mix the concept of information in communication and the medium to transfer it as the same to distinguish between the both we need to understand that information can be words, gestures, drawings, paintings, songs, music, symbols, sounds etc. While the medium allowing the flow of information can be speeches, blogs, emails, microphones, cell phones, forums, newspapers, televisions, radios, internet and just about anything that allows your contact with somebody that may receive information.

Definitions of Communication by Scholars and Authors

Communication is defined by various scholars, authors and educationists differently according to their understanding, perceptions and studies. Following are some definitions for communication.

• “Communication is the verbal interchange of thought or idea” (Hoben, 1954).

• “Communication is the process by which we understand others and in turn endeavor to be understood by them. It is dynamic, constantly changing and shifting in response to the total situation” (Anderson, 1959).

• “Communication: the transmission of information, idea, emotion, skills, etc., by the use of symbols-words, pictures, figures, graphs, etc. It is the act or process of transmission that is usually called communication” (Berelson and Steiner, 1964).

• “Every communication act is viewed as a transmission of information, consisting of discriminative stimuli, from a source to a recipient” (Newcomb, reprinted 1966).

• “In the main, communication has as its central interest those behavioral situations in which a source transmits a message to a receiver(s) with conscious intent to affect the latter’s behaviors” (George A. Miller, 1966).

• “the word communication includes all the procedures by which one mind affects the other” (Clauds Shanon and Warren Weaver)

• “The mechanism through which human relations exists and develop. All the symbols of the mind together with the means of conveying them through space and preserving them in time.” (Charles Colley)

• “The communication process is one of transition from one structured situation-as-a-whole to another, in preferred design” (Sondel, 1956).

• “Communication is the mechanism by which power is exerted” (Schacter, 1951).

• “In the most general sense we have communication whenever one system (source) influences another (destination) by manipulation alternative signals, which can be transmitted over channel connecting them.” (Charles E. O. S. Good)

Conceptualizing Communication

Communication is a part of nature. It is the activity of conveying sets of information that affects others. In order to develop communication you need to have a sender (the source of your information) and a receiver (that accepts the information). Receiver regardless of understanding the intentions of others accepts the information and responds accordingly and variably.

A medium allows you to understand and receive information in a much better way; it enhances your understanding, which is a primary need of human nature. Developing an understanding is a must and only communication allows it to occur. Points of convergence and divergence suggested by Katherine Miller

Points of Convergence:

• Communication is a process.

• Communication is transactional.

• Communication is symbolic.

Points of Divergence:

• Communication is a social activity.

• Communication is intentional.

Points of convergence and diversions from definitions of different scholars

Points of Convergence:

Communication is interactive

Reduces uncertainty

It’s dynamic

It’s a versatile process

It’s proactive

Communication is non-static

It’s grounded in perspectives

It’s symbolic

Communication creates commonness

Transmission

Communication proactive not passive

Points of Divergence:

Understanding

Intentional

Verbal

Constant

Social interaction

Art

Observation

Passive

Transfer of information.

References

Theories of human communication by Little John.

www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/Definitions%20of%20Communication.htm

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication.

www.people-communicating.com/what-is-communication.html

www.wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_communication_defined_by_different_scholars_and_communicators