KUALA LUMPUR, WED:
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk Zaid Ibrahim urged media personnel to cease boycotting parliamentarians following their being denied entry into Parliament’s lobby.
He also said media personnel should be given ample opportunities to cover parliamentary going-ons.
“Press freedom is important and I think media personnel should be given fair accessibility to carry out their work,” he said when met after launching the book “Sharing the Nation: Faith, Difference, Power and the State, 50 Years After Merdeka” at Universiti Malaya here Tuesday.
Also present were the authors of the book, Noraini Othman, Mavis Puthucheary and Clive Kessler.
Journalists from private media organisations covering Parliament began boycotting press conferences held by parliamentarians Tuesday after being barred from entering Parliament’s lobby.
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