{"id":166075,"date":"2022-06-08T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166075"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T09:31:56","slug":"press-should-be-free-to-report-freely-says-wan-junaidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166075","title":{"rendered":"Press should be free to report freely, says Wan Junaidi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Wala&#8217; binti Abdul Muiz Dzihni<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 8 June 2022 \u201d The media should not face restrictions when reporting but must use this freedom responsibly, Minister in the Prime Ministers Department (Parliament and Law), Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Malay Mail <\/em>reported in the closing speech for the World Press Freedom Day 2022 Forum today, the minister called for the media to hold firmly to accuracy in reporting in order to avoid misinformation and publishing fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I personally believe that we need to not only ensure the right (to report) is not restricted but there should be a responsible use for this right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Those involved in the local news media industry have to be careful in what they report and strive to convey messages from any party in the most accurate manner,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wan Junaidi explained that inaccurate or incorrect reports have the ability to affect others, saying he has personally been a \u0153victim\u009d in some cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said there have been times when he was the subject of \u0153misleading articles\u009d that \u0153put words\u009d in his mouth, which he said required him to explain his actual position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I will then be bombarded with so many leading questions as a result of the misleading and inaccurate information and news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I will be left to [perform] damage control, to clarify, and defend myself on something that I didnt even say in the first place,\u009d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, the Embassy of Netherlands in Malaysia, the United Nations (UN), and the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) co-organised a forum in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day 2022 themed \u0153Journalism Under Digital Siege\u009d.***<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <em>Malay Mail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wala&#8217; binti Abdul Muiz Dzihni KUALA LUMPUR, 8 June 2022 \u201d The media should not face restrictions when reporting but must use this freedom&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2733,"featured_media":166076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,2733],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166083,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166075\/revisions\/166083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}