After “super media editor”

We read this in mainstream newspaper

“As the deputy minister responsible in enforcing the Act, sometimes I’ve to call up to remind the media concerned when sensitive issues are published.

“While some accepted the reprimand, others feel I am a super media editor,” Internal Security Deputy Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow said when speaking at a “dinner-with-the-media” here last night.

But, not this

Don’t quote websites and blogs, media told
The Internal Security Ministry has warned mainstream newspapers in the country against quoting and publishing “anti-government articles” from online portals and blogs.

The March 13 letter, which was sent to the country’s top editors, was signed by the ministry’s Publications Control and Al-Quran Texts Unit senior officer Che Din Yusof, on behalf of the ministry’s secretary-general.

国安部发公函警告主流报章 勿刊登引述网络部落格文章
国安部属下的刊物管制及可兰经小组,已经发公函警告国内的主流报章,勿引述或刊登来自网络媒体或部落格的反政府文章。

在这封志期3月13日,并由国安部资深官员仄丁尤索(Che Din Yusof)代表国安部秘书长所签署的公函中提醒说,根据1984年印刷及出版法令8A(2)条文,在刊登新闻前,报章出版人必须采取理性的举动,以确保新闻的正确性及真实性。

Let’s the former media editor tells you more, click here.

Toward more press freedom or the other way round?

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