COMMENT | Journalists are not slaves of state nor pawns of the market

COMMENT | A centre to study the “professionalism” of Malaysian journalism? No, prime minister. 

We don’t need any more motherhood statements, notwithstanding your belief that journalists are allowed to operate without interference. They are not.

What we need is for the government to keep out and let journalists do their job: to keep a pulse of the people’s plights, to question the official narrative, to investigate and report in depth.  

Yes, to report in greater depth.  That, the Bernama’s article on the “Malacca Declaration 2022” stopped short of doing.  Other news portals, likewise, failed to follow up.

Professional journalists do not just report what the...