Good journalism is bad news for backdoor gov’t

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It did not take long for Perikatan Nasional (PN) to unmask its agenda to wield RTM and Bernama as the state apparatus to push the government’s version of issues and events. Its move to give state-owned media exclusive access to Parliament on May 18 on the pretext of keeping other journalists safe from Covid-19 should be condemned for what it is – a government incursion into journalists’ right to report on the one-day proceedings, now limited to the king’s speech, and relegating a proposed motion of no-confidence vote to the backburner. The prime minister and his cabinet clearly hold a contempt for unrestrained media scrutiny of their legitimacy to govern, and their fragile position hogging the headlines. As a journalist friend commented on the recent defections of Pakatan Harapan assemblypersons to PN in Johor, Perak and Malacca: “Human and political decency has been thrown out t…