|
Country |
Leader
of the State |
Designation |
Since |
|
Australia |
Anthony Albanese |
Prime Minister |
May 23,
2022 |
|
Japan |
Fumio Kishida |
Prime Minister |
October 4,
2021 |
|
South Korea |
Yoon Suk-yeol |
President |
May 10,
2022 |
|
Indonesia |
Joko Widodo |
President |
October 20,
2014 |
|
Egypt |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
President |
June 8,
2014 |
|
Turkey |
Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
President |
July 9,
2018 |
|
South Africa |
Cyril Ramaphosa |
President |
February
15, 2018 |
|
Spain |
Pedro Sánchez |
Prime Minister |
June 2,
2018 |
|
Italy |
Giorgia Meloni |
Prime Minister |
October 22,
2022 |
|
Brazil |
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
President |
January 1,
2023 |
|
Russia |
Vladimir Putin |
President |
May 7, 2012
|
|
Mexico |
Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
President |
December 1,
2018 |
|
Argentina |
Alberto Fernández |
President |
December
10, 2019 |
|
Saudi Arabia |
Salman bin Abdulaziz |
King |
January 23,
2015 |
|
Nigeria |
Bola Tinubu |
President |
May 29,
2023 |
|
Poland |
Mateusz Morawiecki |
Prime Minister |
December 11,
2017 |
|
Thailand |
Prayut Chan-o-cha |
Prime Minister |
May 22,
2014 |
|
Vietnam |
Pham Minh Chinh |
Prime Minister |
April 5,
2021 |
|
Philippines |
Bongbong Marcos |
President |
June 30,
2022 |
|
Colombia |
Gustavo Petro |
President |
August 7,
2022 |
|
Morocco |
Aziz Akhannouch |
Prime Minister |
October 7,
2021 |
|
Algeria |
Abdelmadjid Tebboune |
President |
December
19, 2019 |
|
Ethiopia |
Abiy Ahmed |
Prime Minister |
April 2,
2018 |
|
Kenya |
William Ruto |
President |
September
13, 2022 |
|
Tanzania |
Samia Suluhu Hassan |
President |
March 19,
2021 |
|
Chile |
Gabriel Boric |
President |
March 11,
2022 |
|
Peru |
Dina Boluarte |
President |
December 7,
2022 |
|
Malaysia |
Anwar Ibrahim |
Prime Minister |
November
24, 2022 |
|
Singapore |
Lee Hsien Loong |
Prime Minister |
August 12,
2004 |
|
Pakistan |
Shehbaz Sharif |
Prime Minister |
April 11,
2022 |
|
Bangladesh |
Sheikh Hasina |
Prime Minister |
January 12,
2014 |
|
Sri Lanka |
Ranil Wickremesinghe |
President |
July 21,
2022 |
|
Iran |
Ebrahim Raisi |
President |
August 3,
2021 |
|
Israel |
Benjamin Netanyahu |
Prime Minister |
December
29, 2022 |
|
UAE |
M. bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
President |
May 14,
2022 |
|
United States |
Joe Biden |
President |
January 20, 2021 |
|
United Kingdom |
Rishi Sunak |
Prime Minister |
October 25, 2022 |
|
China |
Xi Jinping |
President |
March 14, 2013 |
|
India |
Narendra Modi |
Prime Minister |
May 26, 2014 |
|
Germany |
Olaf Scholz |
Chancellor |
December 8, 2021 |
|
France |
Emmanuel Macron |
President |
May 14, 2017 |
|
Canada |
Justin Trudeau |
Prime Minister |
November 4, 2015 |
I n his book Media the Second God , Tony Schwartz, a television advertising specialist, states, “ Godlike, the media can change the course of a war, bring down a president or a king, elevate the lowly and humiliate the proud, by directing the attention of millions on the same event and in the same manner .” Media imperialism is at the moment of primary importance to all the states of the developing world. It is imperative that its various aspects are studied in detail. Some sixty years ago, about the same time as Pakistan got its independence, George Orwell wrote his famous book Nineteen Eighty-Four. That classic novel with miraculous prescience depicted with a fair amount of accuracy, the events that were to unfold in the present era. In fact the thought control capacity of the powers that has gone much beyond the Orwellian fancies and fantasies and we have been so conditioned by it that we take it for granted and believe in his slogan “ ignorance is strength ”. ...

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