August 26, 2017

Curious Case of Memogate, Treason and Jang Group


Reuters says on Allegations and contentious or vituperative attacks: We can never allow our sources to make allegations, contentious statements or vituperative attacks behind a cloak of anonymity. It weakens our credibility and gives the sources an opportunity to benefit at our expense. It is fundamentally unfair to the other party and thus biased. If quoting unnamed sources on one side of a conflict about what is happening on the other side, use them only for facts, not opinions. If a source wants to make a vituperative attack on an individual, organisation, company or country he or she must speak on the record. We may waive this rule only if the source is a senior official making a considered policy statement which is obviously newsworthy. A story must make clear both that the informant has volunteered the information and that he or she is an official. If the person will not speak on that basis we should not use the story. Such a story might begin: "Gaul accused Rome on Wednesday of practicing genocide against its ethnic minorities." The second paragraph would then read something like this: "In news briefing a government official, who declined to be identified, said...". Reference:  Reuters Handbook of Journalism 

Recently the Judiciary has allowed Zaid Hamid petition in SC against Jang Group and SAFMA wherein he alleges that certain people in Jang Group are Anti Pakistan and on this the Jang Group has reacted and started asking 20 questions, I would just quote from Jang Group very own archives wherein the Group Editor of the News Mr. Shaheen Sehabi, Resident Editor The News Islamabad Mohammad Malick (who is now MD PTV) and their countless minions --> and they call themselves Journalists uloaded similar Allegation without even a formal enquiry and they not only influenced the Judiciary by relaying 24/7 Marathon Transmission loaded with worse king of mudslinging, misreporting and highly unethical campaign on a matter which was in the court of law and that too without any genuine legal ground, read the news and watch the footage & do note the Imran Khan and Mohammad Malick (now MD PTV and then resident editor The News of Jang Group) connivance in Memogate and also note the use of word "Traitor" by Khawaja Muhammad Asif. 

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