[from the NST's online]
Correction. 28 Jul 2006
IN the article headlined "RM50m suit: Gag order on both parties’’, we reported that High Court judge Datuk Kang Hwee Gee had imposed a restraining order on Matthias Chang and Datuk Kalimullah Hassan from making any comments related to a defamation suit.
This is incorrect. Both parties agreed to a suggestion by the court to refrain from commenting on the case.
---------------
I am glad. This shows that NST is STILL capable of admitting its mistakes.
It's just that it hasn't done so with regards to the June 11 Sunday Column (which involves Kalimullah, too).
Fact: Newspapers make mistakes.
Ho Kay Tat, the editorial supremo of the Sun/Edge, told a media conference the other day that his newspapers make mistakes, too (not just the on-line media and the blogs). But to ensure that the newspapers' credibility is not hurt by the mistakes they make (as credibility, he had said earlier, is not build overnight), "I'll make sure we carry a correction or apologise if necessary the very next day".
Of course, every newspaper editor must know that when his/her publication makes a mistake, it must be corrected at once. For one simple reason -- a newspaper chornicles history. And history cannot be told wrongly.
ReplyDeleteA newspaper that quickly corrects its mistakes is also thus a responsible newspaper.
But of course too a newspaper cannot be making mistakes all the time la. A newspaper that cannot get anything right, should seriously examine its newsroom.
well, apologies and corrections made by newspapers must be seen in the context within which such humbling acts are done. The editors are not always at ease when admitting their mistakes.
ReplyDeletecase in point is, as rocky pointed out, the apology for the June 11 article written by Lord Kali. This blatant act of misrepresenting facts about AAB-MM's meeting in Japan was part of NST's spin-doctoring.
And, why apologise for it now when the matter is not even in the courtroom yet.
But, the truth is quite simple. Lord Kali will do whatever it takes to make AAB look good and that even includes dropping the mention of a group of demonstrators who objected to AAB receiving his honorary PH.D from an Indonesian university recently.
Yes, the reporter happened to have written about it in her story but it was deleted. (Learnt about this from a fellow at the NST's news desk.) What else is new, eh?
well, apologies and corrections made by newspapers must be seen in the context within which such humbling acts are done. The editors are not always at ease when admitting their mistakes.
ReplyDeletecase in point is, as rocky pointed out, the apology for the June 11 article written by Lord Kali. This blatant act of misrepresenting facts about AAB-MM's meeting in Japan was part of NST's spin-doctoring.
And, why apologise for it now when the matter is not even in the courtroom yet.
But, the truth is quite simple. Lord Kali will do whatever it takes to make AAB look good and that even includes dropping the mention of a group of demonstrators who objected to AAB receiving his honorary PH.D from an Indonesian university recently.
Yes, the reporter happened to have written about it in her story but it was deleted. (Learnt about this from a fellow at the NST's news desk.) What else is new, eh?