Media is making a monkey out of the masses

TM Fahim rightly said that the media is making a monkey out of the masses by feeding them junk when he was asked to speak during the Table Topics sessions.

Combines meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 17^th March, 2012 at the Carlton Hotel. Total twelve members attended the meeting.

Toastmaster’s pledge was observed by TM Shahrukh who was also the Toastmaster of the Meeting. TM Zafar Iqbal was the Presiding Officer. TM Jaan Ali was the Table Topics Master, TM Sajjad was the General Evaluaor and TM Fahim was the Table Topics Evaluator.  

Roles were performed by TM Sattar as the Ah-Counter and Vote counter, TM Naveed as the Word-Master (word of the day was bleak), TM Fazal as the Grammarian and TM Fahim as the Timer.

The theme of the Table Topics session was, the “Media and the Mass Communication.”

   

      SPEAKERS               TOPICS

a)      TM Mujeeb:   Globalisation and Mass Communication

b)      TM Naveed:   Role of Media in Cultural Imperialism

c)       TM Fazal:     Democracy and Media

d)      TM Fahim:     Effects of Media on Masses

e)      TM Adnan Motiwala:    Is the role of media same in dictatorship as in democracy?

f)       TM Sajjad:     The role of PEMRA nowadays.

g)      TM Sattar:     Media’s Rules and Ethics

h)      TM Zfar Iqbal:            Media and Money

i)        TM Shahrukh:           What is the importance of a case being highlighted in media

TM Dniyal presented a prepared speech from the fourth project of the Competent Communication manual. The topic of the speech was “The brain is our universe.” The evaluator of the speech was TM Hanif Sattar.