NST’s misreporting
What is wrong with the News Straits Times (NST)? It seems old habits die hard. NST, who was guilty of spinning news under Pak Lah’s leadership apparently is still trying to spin its news.
Now, newspapers are supposed to report news. Not spin them or paraphrasing what a particular news source is saying. How hard could that be? If you want to put forth your own opinion, then that should be printed in the editor’s column.
If you start to edit or spin the news, then you will lose credibility when people learned that the news were inaccurate. How many times have we seen Kalimullah spinning the news since 2005?
In this latest case, it is unfortunate that the NST had taken the stand to paraphrase the gist of the speech given by Raja Perlis last week.
From the latest explanation by the Raja’s aide, NST had made a disastrous mistake by printing something which was totally untrue. How could a journalist made a huge error in reporting a critical news item that way?
And why didn’t the news editor recheck that particular piece?
