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- Tindakan Polis Panggil Editor, Wartawan Gangguan Kepada Media – Latheefa
- Enggan Ke Mahkamah: Najib, Rosmah Takut Konspirasi Terbongkar
- CNBC Drops ‘World Business’
- BBC Suspends FBC Shows, CNN Denies Paid For Najib Interview
| Tindakan Polis Panggil Editor, Wartawan Gangguan Kepada Media – Latheefa Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:23 PM PDT Tindakan polis mengambil keterangan Editor dan Ketua Wartawan Suara Keadilan hanya bersifat mengganggu tugasan mereka, kata Pengarah Biro Guaman KEADILAN, Latheefa Koya. Editor, Fazallah Pit dan Ketua Wartawan, Ahmad Fadli Mohd Nazari dipanggil memberi keterangan di Ibu Pejabat Polis Dang Wangi, petang tadi. Ia berhubung satu laporan yang diterbitkan portal KeadilanDaily – versi online kepada akhbar rasmi KEADILAN mengenai penggunaan kanister gas pemedih mata oleh Unit Simpanan Persekutuan (FRU). Kanister itu dilapor digunakan oleh polis untuk menyuraikan peserta himpunan Bersih pada 9 Julai lalu.
Kata Latheefa, walaupun perkara sama turut dilakukan kepada pemimpin parti KEADILAN sebelum ini, namun ia sama sekali tidak akan menggentarkan KEADILAN bagi mendedahkan salah laku kerajaan. "Kami tidak gentar langsung, bukan mahu jadi hero, polis hanya gunakan taktik begini dan tidak menjawab soalan salah guna, sepatutnya dia siasat tentang kanister dan sebagainya, sebaliknya siasat wartawan dan orang yang memberi kenyataan. "Polis harus tahu isi kandungann kanister, nampaknya tidak, persoalannya kenapa anggap kita sebagai musuh sebagaimana orang-orang Israel anggap orang Palestin musuh. "Itu kita persoalkan, jika ia dibuat di Afrika Selatan atau tempat lain, itu bukan isunya, tapi cara dan tindakan kanister digunakan," kata Latheefa ketika sidang media di perkarangan Ibu Pejabat Daerah (IPD) Dang Wangi. Sementara itu wakil peguam hak asasi manusia dari Lawyers For Liberty (LFL), Fadiah Nadwa Fikri menyifatkan tindakan menyoal wartawan dan editor tidak berasas ekoran beberapa soalan yang ditanyanya. "Ada beberapa soalan yang ditanya antaranya 'Apakah tugas anda editor? Siapakah yang menulis artikel berkenaan yang mengesahkan kezaliman BN ketika perhimpunan Bersih? Ada buat editing? Bilakah kedua-dua artikel itu disiarkan di Keadilandaily.com? Adakah berita ini disiarkan di mana-mana akhbar tempatan? Siapakah pemilik Keadilandaily?' "Saya tanya polis apakah mesej soal siasat ini, tapi polis tidak dapat beri jawapan.Tiada mesej untuk disiasat," kata Fadiah. Manakala Naib Presiden KEADILAN, N.Surendran berkata sekali lagi pihak berkuasa mengamalkan kekerasan kepada rakyat yang tidak sehaluan dengan mereka sehingga sanggup menggunakan undang-undang. "Sekali lagi, menggunakan undang-undang jenayah, gunakan polis ini. Ini adalah salah, mesti dihentikan walaupun mereka siasat isu di Stesen Sentral Kuala Lumpur. "Mereka disiasat di bawah seksyen 505(b) berkenaan ketenteraman awam. Setiap kali mengambil kenyataan, polis gunakan taktik sama. "Kerajaan mesti ingat kebenaran adalah penting sama ada dalam politik, kehidupan, seni, prinsipnya adalah kebenaran. Tolong hentikan dengan taktik ini," ujarnya. Sementara itu, Fazallah tetap mempertahankan kredibiliti berita yang disiarKeadilanDaily berkaitan kanister Israel itu. "Walaupun kenyataan dari pimpinan parti, kami tetap buat semakan dan bila ada asasnya baru kami keluarkan berita. Malangnya kami pula yang disiasat," |
| Enggan Ke Mahkamah: Najib, Rosmah Takut Konspirasi Terbongkar Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:57 AM PDT Perdana menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan isterinya, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor enggan ke mahkamah sebagai saksi dalam kes Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim kerana bimbang konspirasi mereka terbongkar. Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN, Rafizi Ramli berkata, Najib dan Rosmah tidak mungkin dapat menyembunyikan penglibatan mereka dalam kes itu, sekiranya dipanggil ke mahkamah. Ini kerana bukti menunjukkan Najib berjumpa dengan Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, dua hari sebelum pengadu itu membuat laporan polis pada 28 Jun 2008, mendakwa diliwat Anwar. Selain itu Saiful juga bertemu Datuk Mumtaz Jaafar iaitu pembantu khas kepada Rosmah. Kenyataan Najib dan isterinya turut direkodkan oleh Pegawai penyiasat DSP Jude Pereira sepertimana yang diberitahu pegawai polis itu di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur pada Mac lalu. "Dalam dua-dua latar belakang ini, Najib dan Rosmah ada peranan penting dalam keseluruhan kes fitnah ini. Kalau mereka disoal siasat, saya tidak yakin mereka boleh sembunyikan konspirasi ini.
"Kita tahu di mahkamah, soalan akan ditanyakan secara khusus, sebab itu mereka tidak berani tampil sebagai saksi," kata Rafizi kepada Keadilandaily. Tambahnya lagi, Najib sepatutnya menggunakan peluang yang ada untuk membersihkan imejnya dengan hadir ke mahkamah, namun ternyata mengelak berbuat demikian. "Kalau betul Najib tak terlibat dia boleh hadir sebagai saksi kerana ia baik untuk imejnya dan Rosmah. Lebih baik tampil di mahkamah berikan keterangan yang betul," katanya. Sementara itu, beliau turut menyatakan kes itu hanya mengulangi semula skrip pada 1998 dengan beberapa watak masih dikekalkan. "Kaedahnya sama dari segi cara , malah watak-watak dari 1998 juga adalah orang yang sama seperti Musa Hassan (bekas Ketua Polis Negara) dan Rodwan Yusof (bekas Ketua Polis Melaka). Semalam, Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur dimaklumkan oleh Peguam Cara Negara II, Datuk Mohamed Yusof Zainal Abiden bahawa Najib dan Rosmah,akan hanya ditemubual jika mereka disepina dengan alasan mereka bukan saksi utama. Ia termasuk juga bekas Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan bekas ketua polis Melaka Datuk Mohd Rodhwan Yusof. Justeru mahkamah akan memutuskan Isnin ini sama ada permohonan Anwar memanggil 15 orang saksi termasuk Najib dan Rosmah untuk dibawa ke mahkamah dibenarkan atau sebaliknya. |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:11 AM PDT From http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0811/CNBC_drops_World_Business.html# CNBC has pulled its weekend international business show, "World Business," after a blog edited by Gordon Brown's sister-in-law found that the show's production company was doubling as a PR firm for Malaysian politicians. The blog, the Sarawak Report, named after one of the states on the island of Borneo, reported that the London-based television production-company, FBC Media, had a contract with Sarawak's Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud, to improve his international image. It suggests FBC carried out this contract in part through puff pieces in the news shows it produced. "In light of serious questions raised last week, CNBC immediately initiative an examination of FBC and its business practices and has withdrawn the program 'World Business' indefinitely," Brian Steel, senior vice president of media relations at CNBC, told POLITICO. 'World Business' did not run in the U.S. market, but aired in Europe on Friday nights and in Asia on Saturday evenings. FBC Media, short for Fact Based Communications, was formed in 1998 as a "European-based media and entertainment group specialising in television format creation, production and distribution," according to a cached version of its website. Its active website has apparently been taken down. The company's executive chairman is Alan Friedman, an American journalist who interned in the Carter White House and worked as a columnist for the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Last year, he wrote for The Atlantic as a special correspondent from Davos. Although staffers were around to answer phones at FBC Media on Wednesday, messages left for Friedman were not returned. On Friedman's Wikipedia page, FBC Media is listed as as a "a London-based strategic communications, national branding and television and online content group with interests primarily in Europe, the Middle East and Asia." FBC Media is listed in lobbying reports as having paid tens of thousands of dollars to Washington-based lobbying firm Apco in recent years to lobby on behalf of the Malaysian government, the blog points out. FBC Media has also produced content for an array of top news broadcasters, including CNN and the BBC. Although the Sarawak Report alleges that CNN has "carried a number of shows made by FBC, including a number of interviews with [Malaysian Prime Minister] Najib [Razak] by the company's President, John Defterios," a CNN spokeswoman says this is not true. "CNN's recent interview with the Malaysian Prime Minister was set up solely y CNN with the PM's office," CNN spokeswoman Lauren Cone told POLITICO. "John Defterios became a full-time employee with CNN in March, at which time he severed his affiliation with FBC." Cone added that "there has never been a contract between CNN and FBC to carry any editorial content on CNN," and "the only FBC content CNN has carried is FBC advertorial, clearly labeled, in commercial time." A spokesman from the BBC said the broadcaster "was not aware of some of the information provided and we will examine the claims made as a matter of urgency." All independent TV companies who make shows from BBC World News have to sign strict agreements to ensure against conflict of interest, the spokesman said. "As a precautionary step, we will not broadcast programmes made by FBC whilst we look into these claims.” The Sarawak Report was founded and is edited by Clare Rewcastle Brown, an environmental journalist who lived in Sarawak as a child and is a frequent critic of Mahmud's leadership and its impact on Sarawak's rainforests. |
| BBC Suspends FBC Shows, CNN Denies Paid For Najib Interview Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:08 AM PDT US-based broadcaster CNN has denied it was paid to interview Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak but questions remain about the role played by its anchor John Defterios after the latter's FBC Media programme World Business was axed yesterday by rival network CNBC. The spotlight is on the relationship between FBC Media — the British publicity firm led by media giant Alan Friedman with Defterios (picture) still listed as its group president — and broadcasters like CNBC, CNN and the BBC. As a result of the allegations, BBC has also said it will suspend programmes produced by FBC Media and investigate the company. Influential Washington-based news website Politico.com reported today a CNN spokesman as saying there had never been any contract between the satellite news channel and Friedman's FBC Media for editorial content, only advertorials that are clearly labelled as such and which run only during the commercial slots. According to Politico, FBC Media is listed in lobbying reports as having paid tens of thousands of dollars to Washington-based lobbying firm APCO in recent years to lobby on behalf of the Malaysian government. CNN's denial comes on the heels of rival CNBC's decision to drop its flagship show World Business, which has similarly been alleged to have been paid to feature Najib in its prime-time news slots last month after his administration cracked down on a civil rally pushing for cleaner and more honest elections. Both interviews were conducted by Defterios which has raised eyebrows over his appearance on the rival channels as well as questions over a conflict of interest to his unclear ties with FBC Media. Defterios was listed as director in the British firm on the FBC Media website before it was stripped down to a one-page fact sheet yesterday, with all information about its board members removed. The information remains available on the whistleblower Sarawak Report website. CNN told Politico that Defterios had been a full-time employee since March and had cut all ties with FBC Media at that time, but he remains listed as CNBC's managing editor for the just axed World Business programme. In profiles of Defterios available online, he is listed as the group president of FBC Media. Global broadcasters have been scrambling to contain potential damage after allegations of impropriety surfaced following an expose by whistleblower Sarawak Report, which linked the interviews and other programmes produced by FBC Media as having been paid millions of ringgit by the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to shine its international image. "CNN's recent interview with the Malaysian prime minister was set up solely by CNN with the PM's office," Politico reported CNN spokeswoman Lauren Cone as saying in its story today headlined "CNBC drops 'World Business'". Apart from CNN, FBC Media has also produced editorial content for the UK broadcaster BBC. The British broadcaster told Politico all independent TV companies are required to sign strict agreements with it to prevent conflicts of interests and that it was not aware of some of the information provided by FBC but will be investigating the claims "as a matter of urgency." "As a precautionary step, we will not broadcast programmes made by FBC whilst we look into these claims," Politico reported the anonymous BBC spokesman as saying. Putrajaya and the Sarawak administration under Chief Minister Tan Sri Taib Mahmud have been questioned by the opposition PKR to come clean on the allegation they had paid FBC Media RM15 million a year from public coffers to produce programmes biased towards the BN coalition at federal and state levels on international media. The Sarawak Report, in a story published three days ago, claimed insider sources revealed Najib "suggested" to Taib that he hire FBC Media to bolster his seemingly flagging popularity after the Sarawak chief minister appeared to suffer a publicity crisis due to allegations of extensive corruption. Both have not denied the report since it was published by the whistleblower website. FBC Media's dealings with the Malaysian government came to light after supplementary supply Bills showed vast payments made for a "Global Strategic Communications Campaign". The records showed that between 2008 and 2009, RM57.7 million was paid by the Prime Minister's office to FBC Media for the campaign. Attempts by The Malaysian Insider to contact FBC Media since yesterday to clarify the reports have been unanswered. |
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