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Press council bill a farce
Monday, 12 June 2006
Charter 2000-Aliran has dissected the proposed bill to set up a Media Council, and its findings are not pretty. There appear to be virtually no safeguards in the interest of freedom of expression or real journalistic ethics. It is too ambiguous in areas that should be clearly defined and explained. Overall, it is an extra curb on press freedom in the country.

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Aliran Monthly 26: 4 editor's note
Sunday, 11 June 2006

AM coverIn our cover story, we publish our open letter to the Prime Minister asking him to take a clear stand on the disrupted forum in Penang.

In the aftermath of the disruption, some media reports published contradictory and confused accounts of what transpired. To see the record straight, we carry an eyewitness account of the sequence of events that morning.

 

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