What happened to Geo?

[smoothcriminal]

It used to be my favorite TV channel (personal opinion), which promoted a very likeminded Pakistan for me (on a personal note). Very progressive in its approach with great intellectuals. Their stance against the emergency in 2007 won them a lot of praise.

But slowly their focus changed from ideas to people. Today when I put GEO on its a constant witch-hunt against Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri except for Hassan Nisar's Meray Mutabiq (not that I give much of a toss about those two but because its so agenda-oriented). I mean back in the day they at least appeared more transparent! Now the covers are off.

In terms of intellectual stimulation, the channel which back in the day hosted some great shows/ideas leaves a lot to be desired now.

I get more in depth unbiased analysis out of a "Khabar Yeh Hay" show (Dunya news with Rauf Klasra & co) than any Geo program.

Where did it go wrong? Too intertwined in politics and interests? (e.g., Sethi, Tahir Ashrafi, Aamir Liaquat).

 

[MRSN]

They have only Sethi and Mir these days who have become too boring and predictable to watch. According to them army is behind everything. Kashif Abbasi does a better show these days than these finished articles.

 

[AZ]

all of the major channels have taken very obvious pro-IK/TuQ or anti-IK/TuQ stances, quite shameless stuff really.

the likes of ARY & Samaa have become full-fledged PTI propaganda machinery.

 

[smoothcriminal]

all of the major channels have taken very obvious pro-IK/TuQ or anti-IK/TuQ stances, quite shameless stuff really.

the likes of ARY & Samaa have become full-fledged PTI propaganda machinery.

Yes agreed those channels are also equally excruciating to watch. In comparison to USA, where channels are divided amongst ideological lines (Fox for Conservaties, MSNBC + CNN for liberals) here its just motivated by interests. No real philosophy or stance a channel adopts. Shame.

 

[Fastandfurious]

Money talks.

 

[srh]

Geo is becoming embarrassing.

Right now there were showing Imran Khan's speech in their news bulletin and then they cut it off and the newscaster said Imran Khan is saying the same thing which he has been saying since the start of the Dharna and if he says a new thing then we will take you back to his speech. Which professional newschannel would says these kind of things in their news? Why dont just cut off saying lets move to another news item?
And then they move to another news items which was anti Imran Khan.

 

[Savak]

Bikka Hua channel. Even more pro govt then PTV. Shameful stuff really. Tells you all you need to know about everything wrong with our country and society.

 

[Strike Rate]

all of the major channels have taken very obvious pro-IK/TuQ or anti-IK/TuQ stances, quite shameless stuff really.

the likes of ARY & Samaa have become full-fledged PTI propaganda machinery.

Ary is Pro PTI just Like Geo is Pro PMLN or you can say PTV2 but SAMAA is a quality channel with totally unbiased view and they dont even go for creating masala news like other news channels. Samaa is following their slogan "Sansani Nahi, Sirf Khabrein"

Btw Kashi Abbasi program on ARY is a neutral one just like Mere Mutabiq by Hassan Nisar on Geo News

 

[MRSN]

Geo is becoming embarrassing.

Right now there were showing Imran Khan's speech in their news bulletin and then they cut it off and the newscaster said Imran Khan is saying the same thing which he has been saying since the start of the Dharna and if he says a new thing then we will take you back to his speech. Which professional newschannel would says these kind of things in their news? Why dont just cut off saying lets move to another news item?
And then they move to another news items which was anti Imran Khan.

This is not the first time I've seen them do this. I think they do this everyday when Imran's speech is going on. They show it for like 2 minutes and cut saying like what you have said in bold..Their expressions are priceless. I think they just trolling with PTI and Imran Khan.

 

[Strike Rate]

This is not the first time I've seen them do this. I think they do this everyday when Imran's speech is going on. They show it for like 2 minutes and cut saying like what you have said in bold..

+1 they do it every day i saw it happening twice a few days ago.

 

[Badsha]

all of the major channels have taken very obvious pro-IK/TuQ or anti-IK/TuQ stances, quite shameless stuff really.

the likes of ARY & Samaa have become full-fledged PTI propaganda machinery.

Only ARY is pro PTI.

 

[WebGuru]

Just noticed Twitter accounts of 3 famous Geo Journos are deactivated in last few hours don't know why.

Umar Cheema
Wajih Sani
Aziz Sayed

Maybe another deep state conspiracy? but i hope this time it's actually true these 3 lifafas should really face deep state for once i am tired of their Twitter rants linking everything to establishment ki saazish and deep state actors.

 

[Bewal Express]

Just noticed Twitter accounts of 3 famous Geo Journos are deactivated in last few hours don't know why.

Umar Cheema
Wajih Sani
Aziz Sayed

Maybe another deep state conspiracy? but i hope this time it's actually true these 3 lifafas should really face deep state for once i am tired of their Twitter rants linking everything to establishment ki saazish and deep state actors.

Geo and it's journalists have thrown all its lot with the mafia. These are not journalists, they are active members of the mafia and they need to a be dealt with. Where is the ISI when we need them against anti state elements.

 

[RameezRambo_Fan]

The ISI has better people to go around eliminating than these three wannabe journalists like Umar Cheema, Wajih Sani, and Aziz Sayed. They only wish the ISI could extract them to an unknown location, but alas they're nobody. Just twitter personalities with zero credibility. The ISI has bigger fish to go after.

 

[RameezRambo_Fan]

As for GEO, they've had a dubious history since their inception. I stopped watching GEO the day they sided with that cockeyed chief justice iftikhar in 2007 and supported those crooked lawyers march against Musharraf.

IS GEO PART OF CIA PSY-OPS?
by Moin Ansari
August 11th, 2008
Just because it is in Urdu doesn't make it true! Just because it was broadcast by a Pakistani channel doesn't make it right!

Geo was started with the help of an ex US Naval Petty Officer by the name of David Hazinski who founded Intelligent Media Consultants and is currently an associate professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He most recently redesigned the central International Broadcast Center for the Voice of America in Washington and is consulting on new network launches for the VOA worldwide. Hazinski along with Todd Frantz are the main players of this company - Frantz came to IMC after 10 years at CNN in Atlanta and the Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at The University of Georgia.

David Hazinski was the principle architect of GEO TV and managed the station's launch after being contacted by the Jang Group, Pakistan's self proclaimed "largest newspaper publisher". They did this after Jang's owner (Mir Shakil ur Rehman) saw how he shepherded the successful launch of a similar station in India in January 2001 called Aaj Tak, the first all-news Hindi-language channel in India.

Because most of Intelligent Media's clients are unfamiliar with broadcast news techniques, Hazinski says he is able to tailor unique approaches that maximize their limited budgets. "These people are willing to try new things because they don't want to pay the outrageous costs associated with news production in the United States" he says. "Right now, based on what we learned in Pakistan, we're convinced we can launch a network today for half of what it would have cost three years ago. And no one would see any quality difference on the air - even if we aired it in the U.S.".

At GEO-TV's main broadcast center in Karachi, Hazinski built a newsroom around 24 Mac G4s running Final Cut Pro. News footage is captured with 40 Sony PD150s and 15 PD100s. NewTek Video Toaster 2 systems are used at bureaus in Islamabad and Lahore to switch between the main broadcast center.

In addition to designing a systems approach for GEO-TV, Hazinski helped teach the station's staff how to use the equipment and how to produce television news. Greg Pope, a freelance editor and producer formerly with CNN, spent one month in Karachi this summer training GEO-TV's news staff, which primarily consists of newspaper journalists. "We basically had to convert people from print journalists to TV journalists" says Pope, adding that he had never taught production techniques in a classroom setting to non-English speaking students. "These print people were basically issued cameras and editing equipment and within months were transformed from pen and paper to this new electronic media. Some of them didn't even know how to use a keyboard when we started."

WHO IS DAVID DAVID HAZINSKI? Why did Geo hire a known Neocon for help in content?

He owns Intelligent Media Consultants, LLC, a company responsible for training the staffs and helping to launch eight television networks around the world, mostly on the subcontinent. These include Aaj Tak and CNN-IBN in India and GEO TV in Pakistan. He has also consulted for broadcasters and publishers such as the Voice of America, Gramedia in Indonesia, and Alsumaria in Beirut and Baghdad. While on the faculty, Hazinski spent two years as writer, co-host and technology advisor of the internationally syndicated World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Before coming to UGA, Hazinski served six years as an international correspondent for NBC News, covering the U.S., Europe, and Central America and ten years before that as a TV reporter with stations in Charlotte and Pittsburgh.




This is where GEO has its origins from...the people who reinvented Voice of America and created 2 Indian news channels were responsible for creating GEO TV.

And you wonder why this channel is the way it is? I've known this since 2007.

 

[AdamM97]

Media outlets all around the world tend to be biased. Their main objective is to earn as muchh money as possible. The problem with Pakistan is that there aren't enough independent news outlets like you have in the US for example.

 

[PetroDollars]

according to geo, everything is an ISI conspiracy, according to everyone else, geo is a CIA/RAW conspiracy.

 

[Napa]

As for GEO, they've had a dubious history since their inception. I stopped watching GEO the day they sided with that cockeyed chief justice iftikhar in 2007 and supported those crooked lawyers march against Musharraf.

IS GEO PART OF CIA PSY-OPS?
by Moin Ansari
August 11th, 2008
Just because it is in Urdu doesn't make it true! Just because it was broadcast by a Pakistani channel doesn't make it right!

Geo was started with the help of an ex US Naval Petty Officer by the name of David Hazinski who founded Intelligent Media Consultants and is currently an associate professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He most recently redesigned the central International Broadcast Center for the Voice of America in Washington and is consulting on new network launches for the VOA worldwide. Hazinski along with Todd Frantz are the main players of this company - Frantz came to IMC after 10 years at CNN in Atlanta and the Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at The University of Georgia.

David Hazinski was the principle architect of GEO TV and managed the station's launch after being contacted by the Jang Group, Pakistan's self proclaimed "largest newspaper publisher". They did this after Jang's owner (Mir Shakil ur Rehman) saw how he shepherded the successful launch of a similar station in India in January 2001 called Aaj Tak, the first all-news Hindi-language channel in India.

Because most of Intelligent Media's clients are unfamiliar with broadcast news techniques, Hazinski says he is able to tailor unique approaches that maximize their limited budgets. "These people are willing to try new things because they don't want to pay the outrageous costs associated with news production in the United States" he says. "Right now, based on what we learned in Pakistan, we're convinced we can launch a network today for half of what it would have cost three years ago. And no one would see any quality difference on the air - even if we aired it in the U.S.".

At GEO-TV's main broadcast center in Karachi, Hazinski built a newsroom around 24 Mac G4s running Final Cut Pro. News footage is captured with 40 Sony PD150s and 15 PD100s. NewTek Video Toaster 2 systems are used at bureaus in Islamabad and Lahore to switch between the main broadcast center.

In addition to designing a systems approach for GEO-TV, Hazinski helped teach the station's staff how to use the equipment and how to produce television news. Greg Pope, a freelance editor and producer formerly with CNN, spent one month in Karachi this summer training GEO-TV's news staff, which primarily consists of newspaper journalists. "We basically had to convert people from print journalists to TV journalists" says Pope, adding that he had never taught production techniques in a classroom setting to non-English speaking students. "These print people were basically issued cameras and editing equipment and within months were transformed from pen and paper to this new electronic media. Some of them didn't even know how to use a keyboard when we started."

WHO IS DAVID DAVID HAZINSKI? Why did Geo hire a known Neocon for help in content?

He owns Intelligent Media Consultants, LLC, a company responsible for training the staffs and helping to launch eight television networks around the world, mostly on the subcontinent. These include Aaj Tak and CNN-IBN in India and GEO TV in Pakistan. He has also consulted for broadcasters and publishers such as the Voice of America, Gramedia in Indonesia, and Alsumaria in Beirut and Baghdad. While on the faculty, Hazinski spent two years as writer, co-host and technology advisor of the internationally syndicated World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Before coming to UGA, Hazinski served six years as an international correspondent for NBC News, covering the U.S., Europe, and Central America and ten years before that as a TV reporter with stations in Charlotte and Pittsburgh.




This is where GEO has its origins from...the people who reinvented Voice of America and created 2 Indian news channels were responsible for creating GEO TV.

And you wonder why this channel is the way it is? I've known this since 2007.

If specifics are not given, then a lot of this seems like fake news. Aaj Tak was started by Living Media, which is part of India Today, owned by Aroon Purie rather than CIA/VOA or whatever.

 

[Bewal Express]

Geo is part of the mafia, time to ban this channel.

 

[USaqaf]

I like GEO, especially "Dr" Fiza Akbar.

 

[PaceOverEverything]

It used to be my favorite TV channel (personal opinion), which promoted a very likeminded Pakistan for me (on a personal note). Very progressive in its approach with great intellectuals. Their stance against the emergency in 2007 won them a lot of praise.

But slowly their focus changed from ideas to people. Today when I put GEO on its a constant witch-hunt against Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri except for Hassan Nisar's Meray Mutabiq (not that I give much of a toss about those two but because its so agenda-oriented). I mean back in the day they at least appeared more transparent! Now the covers are off.

In terms of intellectual stimulation, the channel which back in the day hosted some great shows/ideas leaves a lot to be desired now.

I get more in depth unbiased analysis out of a "Khabar Yeh Hay" show (Dunya news with Rauf Klasra & co) than any Geo program.

Where did it go wrong? Too intertwined in politics and interests? (e.g., Sethi, Tahir Ashrafi, Aamir Liaquat).

The common theme in your pre and post-2007 descriptions is regime change, discussions of upheaval and revolutions excite passions and drive ratings. There is no principled vision, only a craven pursuit of profit.

 

[szundercover]

Geo should be banned.

 

[Lonewarrior]

ISI has better things to do thn follow these effers, and when ISI wants to go after them, they wont knw what hit them..