Malaysiakini expresses concerns over the government's decision to introduce its own ethics code for journalists, which also grants the Information Department the authority to revoke media passes. The media outlet believes that self-regulation through a media council or similar body is more appropriate than government intervention.
Malaysiakini is concerned with the government’s decision to introduce its own ethics code for journalists, which also empowers the Information Department to revoke media passes . We support that the media should uphold public interest, be accurate, provide the right of reply, have integrity, be just, protect sources, avoid conflicts of interest, understand laws and strive to improve.
However, it has always been our stand that the media should regulate themselves through a media council or a similar body, and not the government. The government had said its code is merely an update of the Malaysian Press Institute’s version in 1989, which the department has been using as a guideline. Therefore, it is puzzling why the government would produce an ethics code when the media council was supposed to be set up this year, with the bill brought to Parliament in July. The media council draft bill outlined that the council would be empowered to formulate its own code of conduct for journalists
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