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GEO An Affiliate of CNN-Time Warner? - GeoPakistani Forums
FOUND THIS ON OTHER SITE AND I WAS LIKE W H SO SHAREIN IT HERE
Is Geo TV an affiliate or is it a subsidary of CNN-Time Warner Inc.?
GEO PART OF CIA PSY-OPS?
by Moin Ansari July 14th, 2008
AMERICAN MEDIA WITH GEO AND ARY UNLEASHES ANTI-PAKISTAN CAMPAIGN ON CUE:
Just because it is in Urdu doesnt make it true!
Just becuase it was broadcast by a Pakistani channel doesnt make it right!
Why does Geo collude with foreign media?
Why does it focus on creating chaos and general discontent?
Why does it act like an instrument of an political party?
Why does Geo behave like the arm of a foreign force?
Why did Geo deliberately broadcast false bad news about the economy when the stock market was booming?
What hand did Geo play in scaring the foreign investors away from Pakistan?
Why did Geo repeat the false news about the growth figures which led to the crash of the stock market?
Why does Geo show wrong Pakistani maps?
Why does Geo almost never cover the insurgencies in India?
Why is Geo so infatuated with Anti-Pakistan Bollywood films?
Why is Geo bent upon creating a Indianization of Pakistan?
WHy does Geo pay so much attention to Bollywood?
A company is known by the company it keeps.
Geo certainty deals with some colorful characters.
Its genesis, consultants, and affiliations leave much to be desired.
A company is known by the company it keeps.
Geo certainty deals with some colorful characters.
Its genesis, consultants, and affiliations leave much to be desired.
CIA Involvement
The declassified documents are old, but it gives us a glimpse into what can happen.
New techniques are more sophisticated.
(The implements of psychological warfare are: open propaganda, subversion, special operations (sabotage, guerrilla warfare, espionage), political and cultural pressures, economic pressures.
The principal effects sought are persuasion, sympathy, terrorization, confusion, division and physical interference.
These operations, ancient in origin, are modernly employed, notably by Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and other principal powers.
The programs are planned more or less centrally in all nations, but executed by a variety of agencies.
Memorandum on Intelligence for Psychological Warfare, by General John Magruder, Feb.
1943 )
THE COVERT US INTERVENTION IS CONFIRMED BY THE NY TIMES OF JAN 6th, 2008
At the White House and the Pentagon, officials see an opportunity in the changing power structure for the Americans to advocate for the expanded authority in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country.
After years of focusing on Afghanistan, we think the extremists now see a chance for the big prize - creating chaos in Pakistan itself, one senior official said.
The new options for expanded covert operations include loosening restrictions on the C.I.A.
To strike selected targets in Pakistan, in some cases using intelligence provided by Pakistani sources, officials said.
Most counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan have been conducted by the C.I.A.;
In Afghanistan, where military operations are under way, including some with NATO forces, the military can take the lead.
The legal status would not change if the administration decided to act more aggressively.
However, if the C.I.A.
Were given broader authority, it could call for help from the military or deputize some forces of the Special Operations Command to act under the authority of the agency.
NY Times Jan. 6th, 2007
Tons of money was sent to Pakistan for a well organized campaign to launch street demonstrations against President Musharraf.
Mr. Ahmed Quraishi has Quote: d $500 million in funds were disbursed.
As in 1979, during the PNA demonstration millions of Dollars were dispersed among professional agitators.
Uzbek and Tajiks were recruited to create mayhem in Pakistan.
# A shadowy group called the BLA, a Cold War relic, rose from the dead to restart a separatist war in southwestern Pakistan.
. Bugtis death was a blow to neo-BLA, but the shadowy groups backers didnt repent.
His grandson, Brahmdagh Bugti, is currently enjoying a safe shelter in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where he continues to operate and remote-control his assets in Pakistan.
# Saboteurs trained in Afghanistan have been inserted into Pakistan to aggravate extremist passions here, especially after the Red Mosque operation.
# Chinese citizens continue to be targeted by individuals pretending to be Islamists, when no known Islamic group has claimed responsibility.
. A succession of religious rebels with suspicious foreign links have suddenly emerged in Pakistan over the past months claiming to be Pakistani Taliban.
Some of the names include Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Baitullah Mehsud, and now the Maulana of Swat.
Some of them have used, and are using, encrypted communication equipment far superior to what the Pakistani military owns.
# Money and weapons have been fed into the religious movements and al-Qaeda remnants in the tribal areas.
Exploiting the situation, assets within the Pakistani media started promoting the idea that the Pakistani military was killing its own people.
The rest of the unsuspecting media quickly picked up this message.
Some botched US and Pakistani military operations against al-Qaeda that caused civilian deaths accidentally fed this media campaign.This was the perfect timing for the launch of Military, Inc: Inside Pakistans Military Economy, a book authored by Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a columnist for a Pakistani English-language paper and a correspondent for Janes Defence Weekly, a private intelligence service founded by experts close to British intelligence.
(Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
What GEO Does
The media has been unleashed about the so called instability in Pakistan creating a justification for continued and more abrasive offensive action in South Asia.
This to create instability in Pakistan that will be used as an excuse to continue the perpetual mimetic warfare in the Muslim world.
Pakistan has been facing the brunt of the US initiative to implement Democracy in Pakistan even though the credentials of the champions of democracy are very weak.
Neither Egypt, nor Uganda, nor Congo, nor Haiti, nor Taiwan, nor China nor Israel nor Russia face the US medias pontification on how great democracy is.
This expose of Geo origins has tries to uncover the reasons why Geo acts so strangly.
Geo employs a lot of good reporters, but it also employs program hosts whose credentials and loyalty to Pakistan is questionable.
For example Mr. Shaharyar Azhar is a known follower of Neocon philosophy and ideas always highlighting the negative news about Pakistan and not taking India or other countries to task.
There are reports in the press that Geo has been instrumental in the campaign of disinformation about Pakistan.
It has become a willing or unwilling instrument of those who wanted to destabilize Pakistan.
The governemnt of Pakistan and the ISI of Pakistan got wind of Geo plans and recommended to the President to take action against Geo.
The Emergency imposed by the previous government was to thwart the campaign of disinformation that was running concurrently by Time magazine and Newsweek Magazine and the Neocon News agencies in the West.
Why does Geo generally show the Indian version of events and why does its news sound like a translation of CNN news?
Geos dangerous general policies are the main reason that the Pakistan was not allowing Geo to resume its transmission.
Amazingly Geo is now starting a new English News channel to continue its activities against the the country.
Where is the funding for all this coming from?
Whether Geo is an unwilling victim of its sponsors and her affiliates in the USA or India, or is Geo running a planned campaign and got caught with its pants down.
All Geo viewers want to find out the truth!
Details To Destabilize Pakistan
Professor Michel Chossudovsky sheds some light on the plan:
It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies have been maneuvering to strengthen their political control of Pakistan, paving the way for the expansion and deepening of the war on terrorism across the region.
Various American destabilization plans, known for months by officials and analysts, proposed the toppling of Pakistans military
The assassination of Bhutto appears to have been anticipated.
There were even reports of chatter among US officials about the possible assassinations of either Pervez Musharraf or Benazir Bhutto, well before the actual attempts took place.
(Larry Chin, Global Research, 29 December 2007)
Regime change with a view to ensuring continuity under military rule is no longer the main thrust of US foreign policy.
The regime of Pervez Musharraf cannot prevail.
Washingtons foreign policy course is to actively promote the political fragmentation and balkanization of Pakistan as a nation.
A new political leadership is anticipated but in all likelihood it will take on a very different shape, in relation to previous US sponsored regimes.
One can expect that Washington will push for a compliant political leadership, with no commitment to the national interest, a leadership which will serve US imperial interests, while concurrently contributing under the disguise of decentralization, to the weakening of the central government and the fracture of Pakistans fragile federal structure.
The political impasse is deliberate.
It is part of an evolving US foreign policy agenda, which favors disruption and disarray in the structures of the Pakistani State.
Indirect rule by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus is to be replaced by more direct forms of US interference, including an expanded US military presence inside Pakistan.
This expanded military presence is also dictated by the Middle East-Central Asia geopolitical situation and Washingtons ongoing plans to extend the Middle East war to a much broader area.
U.S.
Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units (William Arkin, Washington Post, December 2007).
The official justification and pretext for an increased military presence in Pakistan is to extend the war on terrorism.
Concurrently, to justify its counterrorism program, Washington is also beefing up its covert support to the terrorists.
Already in 2005, a report by the US National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast a Yugoslav-like fate for Pakistan in a decade with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries, as seen recently in Balochistan. (Energy Compass, 2 March 2005).
.Continuity, characterized by the dominant role of the Pakistani military and intelligence has been scrapped in favor of political breakup and balkanization.
.This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region.
US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.
The broader objective is to fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Here are some facts about Geo and some example of how Geo demorolizes the population and the general body of the Pakistani dispora.
GEO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRASH OF THE STOCK MARKET
Geo repeatedly telecasted false news about the Pakistani economy, the political situation and hence the stock market crashed in Pakistan, in a pre-orchestrated campaign.
* GEO's Anti-Pakistan Campaign
Geo focuses on the negative news and instead of focusing on solutions it shows bodies of dead people in contradiction of PEMRA and all decency requirements.
* Geo focuses on petrol prices but does not inform the viewers that most private cars in Pakistan now run on CNG (liqufied petroluem gas) which costs $5 for a tank full.
Most people driving cars are not affected by the rise in petrol (gasoline) prices.
* In a planned manner Geo supresses and ignores good news like $5.1 billion dollars worth of oil in Pakistan.
Geo usually ignores good news like $28 Billion Emmar Development in Pakistan.
Geo is averse to good news about Pakistanthere is no discussion about how to battle these problems.
* Geo does not focus foreign interference in Pakistani affairs.
* Geo did not discuss the 89 separatist movements in India in 2007
from Seven Northeastern sister states, to the Naxalite insurrection, to Bihar to Kashmir, to Assam etc
* Geo Dramas: 50 percent of the dramas are Indian dramas on Geo and 25 percent are with mix cast (Indian and Pakistani) and Indian film
* Geo focuses on showing beheading of people and other depressing news.
* Why did Geo not focus on showing 250 million people sleeping on sidewalks in India?
* Geo did not cover for 36 hours the killing of 3000 Muslims in Gujrat?
* Urdu is not used by many hosts.
Morning host shows are in English and Urdlish ( a horrible combination).
The Younger generation is being spoiled by using them as instruments of hedonism.
* Some of the shows are way beyond the pale on being modern.
Nudity is not modernity.
Science and Technology is modernity.
* Geo plays into the hands of the opposition parties.
It does not discuss opportunities for development.
When Mr. Shaharayar interviewed the President of Azad Kashmir he interrupted him and did not allow him to speak about the problems with the article of accession of Kashmir to India (which is now lost) if it ever existed.
* Geo continues to use Indian jargon like partition.
Partition signifies a temporary dissection of the whole.
India was never whole.
Even during British times there were more than 500 states in the Subcontinent.
Some of them banded together to make Pakistan and others banded together to make India.
* Discussion of Kashmir, Manvanagar, Junagarh are non-existant on Geo.
Most Geo maps show Kashmir as part of Pakistan.
Azad Kashmir is never shown.
Some Geo maps sill show the Nothern Areas as part of India or part of Kashmir.
* Kamran Khan was getting RS 25 lakh per month.
Income vs. salary?
Dr. . Hamid Mir the Editor of Ausaf get Rs.
22 Lakh per month.
* Nadia Khan gets Rs 6 lacs per month.
Income vs. salary?
When Geo was not able to broadcast the 8-hour cricket match, Geo said they lost Rs.
1 billion. After the ban Geo kept on broadcasting for 36 hours without any income?
Let us investigate the players involved with Geo from information that is publicly available.
We see these links which will be analyzed.
) The contravercial David Hazinski an ex US Navy Petty Officer with contacts with the State Department and the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
2) Who is Todd Fratz and why does Geo associate with such characters?
3) Casper Weinberger, Ronald Reagans indicted and pardoned Secretary of Defense who predicted the Next War with a rogue state like Iran.
Why does Geo align itself with known war mongeres.
4) Geo has strategic links with SkyTV of the UK, CNN, IBN-CNN in India and the Voice of America (VOA).
See article on VOA Geo alliance in Pakistan.
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ORIGINS OF GEO
Geo was started with the help of an ex US Naval Petty Officer by the name of Hazinski who has links with Mr.
Casper Weinberger and many Indian channels.
According to (Intelligent Media Consultants) Most recently, he re-designed the central International Broadcast Center for the Voice of America in Washington and is consulting on new network launches for the VOA.
Mr. Hazinski is the principal of the company called IntelligentMC (http://www.intelligentmc.com/Welcome.html,2870 Peachtree Road #713, Atlanta, GA 30305-2918, USA, email: info@intelligentmc.com, url: http://www.intelligentmc.com).the other principal of Intelligent MC is Mr.
Todd Frantz. Todd comes to IMC from 10 years at CNN in Atlanta.
He has links to Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at The University of Georgia
David Hazinski, associate professor at the University of Georgias Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the principle architect of GEO-TV and managed the stations launch.
Hazinski was contacted by the Jang Group, Pakistans largest newspaper publisher and GEO-TVs owner, after he shepherded the successful launch of a similar station in India in January 2001.
Aaj Tak, the first all-news, Hindi-language channel in India, now has a 60% share of the news audience in India.
As one of the owners of Intelligent Media Consultants, an Atlanta-based company that helps its clients design efficient and profitable network operations through the creative application of broadcast technology, Hazinski has worked all over the world launching news operations in markets starved for unbiased reporting.
This is really the cutting edge of technology and journalism, says Hazinski, a former NBC news correspondent who says he and his partners have helped launch at least a dozen news operations in the last 10 years.
These are new markets.
They havent been exposed to lots of TV.
Because most of Intelligent Medias 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 dont 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, were 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-TVs 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 stations 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-TVs 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 didnt even know how to use a keyboard when we started.
Considering the steep learning curve for the Pakistani journalists, Pope says he was amazed at their perseverance and enthusiasm.
These people are tired of having Western news and government news shoved down their throats, says Pope, who estimates that he taught 100 people to shoot and edit video.
They want their own voice.
They want to represent themselves in their own way.
But there is still a chance that the government will shut down GEO-TV.
Pope says that while he was training the news staff, it was widely believed that there were spies for PTV within their ranks.
However, in recent years the Jang Group has won many battles for freedom of the press, so there is hope that GEO-TV will succeed.
If they have minimal government interference, [GEO-TV] will change the face of Pakistan, says Pope.
A Voice for the People
WHO 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 sub-continent.
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.
Office: 139, Fax Number: (706) 542-2183, E-Mail Address: hazinski@grady.uga.edu
Hazinski holds a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the universitys highest teaching award and has been appointed a Senior Teaching Fellow and a member of the Teaching Academy.
He has received more than a dozen local, state, and national journalism awards, including a Golden Quill for Investigative Reporting.
Mr.
Hazinski has been advocating restricting what he calls Citizenship jounalism which he considers dangerous.
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Investigative reporters may scrutinize the details of Mr.
Resume posted at the bottom of this post.
Also posted on (http://www.grady.uga.edu/CV/Hazinski.2005.pdf)
Athens World: Response to Professor David Hazinski
WHAT DEOS MR.
HAZINSKI BELIEVE IN: His address to the American Jewish Council dated 12/13/2007.
You can read his article at the bottom of this page.
Welcome to AJC!
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GEO's aim: Destabilizing Pakistan
Geo has been blamed for participating in and highlighting events per CNN instructions.
Why is Geo not reporting Gen.
Kayani’s statement that he suspects a foreign hand in the assassination to destabilize and denuclearize Pakistan?
The silence is deafening!
Saboteurs trained in Afghanistan have been inserted into Pakistan to aggravate extremist passions here, especially after the Red Mosque operation.
Chinese citizens continue to be targeted by individuals pretending to be Islamists, when no known Islamic group has claimed responsibility.
. A succession of “religious rebels” with suspicious foreign links have suddenly emerged in Pakistan over the past months claiming to be “Pakistani Taliban”.
Some of the names include Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Baitullah Mehsud, and now the Maulana of Swat.
Some of them have used, and are using, encrypted communication equipment far superior to what the Pakistani military owns.
Money and weapons have been fed into the religious movements and al-Qaeda remnants in the tribal areas.
Exploiting the situation, assets within the Pakistani media started promoting the idea that the Pakistani military was killing its own people.
The rest of the unsuspecting media quickly picked up this message.
Some botched US and Pakistani military operations against al-Qaeda that caused civilian deaths accidentally fed this media campaign.This was the perfect timing for the launch of Military, Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, a book authored by Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a columnist for a Pakistani English-language paper and a correspondent for “Jane’s Defence Weekly”, a private intelligence service founded by experts close to British intelligence.
(Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
This compares Geo with ARY and PTV
SnapShot of ptv.com.pk (rank #543,435), arydigitaltv.com, geo.tv (#105,035) - Compete
This compares Geo with CNN and Foxnews websites.
SnapShot of cnn.com (rank #22), foxnews.com (#148), geo.tv (#105,035) - Compete
Here are thestatistics on the number of posts and discussion of Geo on various boards:
Geo tv - forum posts | BoardReader
If things do not change, Pakistanis should cancel Geo and let them suffer.
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Aslaaam O Alaakam ,these are some big accusations Badar bhai.
The same accusatins came before when the lawers were protesting i think.
Will need time to think on this one
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To be honest me and my wife was thinking other day that why Geo never give any good news about Pakistan...almost never....
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I have never been a big fan of GEO anyway's
Some things which i have read in this post about GEO are really shocking
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I am not a big fan of Geo either, however, i do believe that media gives the public what they want to hear and see.
We want to see problems, we want to see action!
We want to see something going on!!
All the time...something happening all the time.
Geo i think is providing us that.
That is true that Geo rarely has something good to say for Pakistan.
But some of the things like stock market and all that is really shocking!
I still give the benefit of the doubt of a mistake!
I certainly dont think that geo would telecast the movie called "loose change" about 9/11 which technically and tactically proves that 9/11 was an inside job !
If Geo was a sub company of CNN.
Because this movie is no Fahrenheit 9/11 but it is real time documentary only available at You tube, i urge everyone to see it.
Geo showed it! so i doubt that its true!
But yes what ever they show is liked by people and GEO is making good money!
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If you read my other post I have said this.
I never liked Geo becoz I know they do all this.
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What are you people talking about???
When they can buy Zardar and Nawaz etc etc...whom are THOSE BEHIND Geo TV???
ONLY PROFIT HUNGERY pure business minded INDIVIDUALS.
lET THEM EARN MONEY, BUT BE CRITICAL to what you are served on Geo.
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