Zan Azlee was recently on BFM’s Evening Edition to discuss the issue of the proposed Media Council bill by the government along with their updated version of the media ethics code.
Aside from policies and practices, the social environment journalists work in can affect and influence our press freedom standing as well.
The process of talking can take a long time. It takes some effort to explain things and, it takes even more effort to try to understand things that we don’t understand.
Despite the fact that Malaysia’s press freedom index has dropped, I still think there is hope. Don’t give excuses or defensive deflection. Just tell us what the government is going to do to improve.
It must not become a tool that can be abused by those in power, just like how so many laws from yesteryears had become.
Looks like Fat Bidin was discussed in Parliament! Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah paid a bit of attention to our suggestions on how to amend the Finas Act 1981.
I would like to offer my services. Give me a ping on my email. It’s zanazlee@gmail.com
It may be too early to judge Art Harun as the Dewan Rakyat speaker.
What the authorities should have done was to launch an investigation to find out if the Al Jazeera allegations were true or false.
I didn’t think the day when the press and media would start getting oppressed and intimidated by the government would ever come again.
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