bdnews24.com :
Telling television stations ‘to refrain from broadcasting negative news’ is not censorship in anyway, Awami League leader Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif has said.
He was responding to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s allegation that the government has clamped censorship on the media.
“No civilised country publicises negative news. It is not imposed; it is done out of moral responsibility
towards society. Terrorists will be encouraged if negative news is published,” the ruling party’s joint general secretary said in Kushtia on Friday.
“[The government] is imposing fresh censorship on the media so that the people cannot know the reality,” BNP chief Khaleda’s adviser Shawkat Mahmud had quoted her as saying on Thursday.
Several ministers met owners and representatives of private TV stations earlier on that the day and ‘advised them not to publish news that could instigate violence’.
In response to Khaleda’s reaction, Hanif said, “The authorities have promised that they will not run negative reports encouraging terrorists. How can this be censorship?”
He said the BNP chief ‘lacked knowledge’ on the matter. “Someone is misguiding her to make such statements,” he said.
Telling television stations ‘to refrain from broadcasting negative news’ is not censorship in anyway, Awami League leader Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif has said.
He was responding to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s allegation that the government has clamped censorship on the media.
“No civilised country publicises negative news. It is not imposed; it is done out of moral responsibility
towards society. Terrorists will be encouraged if negative news is published,” the ruling party’s joint general secretary said in Kushtia on Friday.
“[The government] is imposing fresh censorship on the media so that the people cannot know the reality,” BNP chief Khaleda’s adviser Shawkat Mahmud had quoted her as saying on Thursday.
Several ministers met owners and representatives of private TV stations earlier on that the day and ‘advised them not to publish news that could instigate violence’.
In response to Khaleda’s reaction, Hanif said, “The authorities have promised that they will not run negative reports encouraging terrorists. How can this be censorship?”
He said the BNP chief ‘lacked knowledge’ on the matter. “Someone is misguiding her to make such statements,” he said.
