Mass media has revolutionized almost every aspect of life. It is remarkably inspiring and somewhat frightening how it reigns over our lives. Its boom has affected even the remotest parts of the world and as a result, its opinion formation role has been increased manifold since the boom of digital and satellite media. When the personnel of a certain industry tend to deviate the norms and values of that industry, it becomes curse rather than a blessing. This is what happening now-a-days in the media industry in Pakistan. The media workers, especially those whose programs are most viewed tend...

Mr. Khan's book is innovative and important, in terms of journalism and communication science. It offers new insights into the working conditions and the framing of and by journalists in three media cultures (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran). Khan's Media-Military Relation (MMR) model offers an enlightening contextualization of the working conditions of journalists as well as of previously underestimated constraints on journalists' "selection" of press photos and captions. -- Prof. Dr. Peter Ludes, Professor of Mass Communication at Jacobs U., Bremen (Series: The World Language of Key Visuals....