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Don’t Do Your Job
13 September 2008‘Cos it’ll get you arrested, and detained without trial too! All too much fun and excitement for a silly girl like me.
Like Dr Cheah, I’m absolutely baffled by the arrest of Tan Choon Heng, the Sin Chew Jit Poh reporter. She was merely doing her job and reporting on the happenings in a ceramah. Someone made an irresponsible comment and she reported about it. An apology was made on behalf of this person and the said someone has been subjected to a 3 years suspension from his party. Doesn’t that imply that the powers-that-be agrees that the incident did happen and the behaviour was unacceptable? Now… then why has the poor journalist been arrested for non-false reporting? If there is anyone potentially “causing social unrest” isn’t it the one who made the statement, and not the one who reported it?
If journalists constantly face the threat of ISA, how can we expect to get any bit of fair and open reporting in the country? Oh, and this is a democracy?
This is definitely headache inducing. I’d better stock up on PCM.
on September 17th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Silly move, at least from the information that is available to the public.
I blog about the report… Hope I am not in trouble.
http://chenghiang.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/reflection-on-ahmad-ismail-and-the-pendatang/