MCQ Bank
Which of the following democratic government formed a special cell in the Ministry of Law to make adequate use of existing legal provisions to curb “the anti-national and illegal activities?
- A) Mr. Shujaat Hussain
- B) Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- C) Ms. Benazir Bhutto
- D) Mr. Nawaz Sharif
Which of the following rule introduced by the military government to let the journalists learn what they should not publish?
- A) MLR 4
- B) MLR 8
- C) MLR 6
- D) MLR 2
Article 19 guarantees freedom of expression, subject to ____________.
- A) Political pressure
- B) Reasonable restrictions
- C) GOVT policies
- D) Ownership of media
All of these are the requirement of current affairs programs Except:
- A) Accuracy
- B) Neutrality
- C) Objectivity
- D) Subjectivity
All of these are the techniques for Journalists to defend themselves from libel cases; Except
- A) Censure
- B) Fair comment and criticism
- C) Privilege
- D) Truth
An ______________had been adopted in 1926 and it was used against journalists by holding their disclosures to be contrary to the security interests of the State.
- A) Official Secrets Act
- B) Freedom Act
- C) Official Security Act
- D) None of above
How PEMRA ensures accountability and transparency?
- A) By optimizing the good governance
- B) By optimizing the social responsibility
- C) By optimizing the liability
- D) By optimizing the free flow of information
Which of the following article of the Constitution protects the freedom of expression and narrates the exceptions of restrictions unequivocally?
- A) 17
- B) 12
- C) 19
- D) 15
How many journalists and media assistants were killed worldwide in 2005?
- A) 63 journalists and 5 media assistants
- B) 14 journalists and 2 media assistants
- C) 60 journalists and 15 media assistants
- D) 64 journalists and 8media assistants
Which was the center of Journalist activities after independence?
- A) Sialkot
- B) Lahore
- C) Gujaranwala
- D) Quetta
In 1937, there were only _________ English dailies and the same number of weeklies.
- A) 42
- B) 32
- C) 62
- D) 43
The experience of the __________War led the U.S. government to restrict the access of reporters in combat areas in subsequent military encounters.
- A) India War
- B) Vietnam War
- C) World War 2
- D) World War
Horror and supernatural content causes which type of emotions in the children?
- A) Frightening
- B) Distressing
- C) Upsetting
- D) Disturbing
In which province of Pakistan a large-scale military operation was launched in the middle of seventies?
- A) Punjab
- B) Sindh
- C) Baluchistan
- D) Karachi
Which of the given option is related with media freedom correlate and cannot subsist without each other?
- A) Bureaucracy
- B) Autocracy
- C) Monocracy
- D) Democracy
Libel is the defamation that targets particularly____
- A) Person's approach
- B) Person's character
- C) Person's attitude
- D) Person's behavior
Which one is not a filter of Chomsky Model?
- A) Marketing
- B) Sourcing
- C) Advertising
- D) Size and ownership of organization
In which year the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe established a Representative on Freedom of the Media?
- A) 1997
- B) 1999
- C) 1990
- D) 1998
Who backed the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975?
- A) United Kindom
- B) United states
- C) United Arad Emirates
- D) Pakistan
In 1992, 90 per cent of the UK press was controlled by _________.
- A) IMF
- B) Central bank
- C) Conrad Black
- D) World Bank