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Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has told foreign diplomats that certain media outlets were not responding to the government’s pleas ‘not to incite hatred, intolerance and violence’ in any form.
Briefing nearly 100 diplomats on Wednesday, she said the government continued to urge the print, electronic, social and online media to act as per prescribed rules and regulations.
But she said: “We have noticed to our sheer dismay that the government’s repeated pleas have fallen on deaf ears with certain identified sections of our media.”
“…and our restraint and patience with them has been misconstrued as a sign of our weakness or policy oscillation.”
The heads of foreign missions and international agencies attended the briefing, the second of its kind in a little more than a month.
The briefing was organised in the wake of the Islamist group Hifazat-e Islam’s recent showdown and its 13-point charter of demand that includes banning public mixing of men and women.
She touched on contemporary political issues during the briefing to what she said keep the diplomats updated on Bangladesh’s latest situation.
Moni said the government hoped that ‘the right sense would prevail’ upon these media establishments, and those involved in ‘hate campaigns and communal propaganda’ would mend their actions to uphold the established principles of journalism.
To create the right policy environment in the broader context, she said, her government was working on further updating the National Broadcasting Policy and the Bangladesh Press Council Act to make them more adaptive to the evolving media scene in the country.
She stressed the need for ‘remaining cautious’ so that no individual was falsely implicated for a wrongdoing that he or she might not have committed personally or had been framed with through forged technological means.
“We have been witness to a number of such incidents in recent times where falsified attributions to individuals on blogs or social networking sites had been deliberately used as a pretext to unleash large scale violence and atrocities,” she said.
But she said: “We have noticed to our sheer dismay that the government’s repeated pleas have fallen on deaf ears with certain identified sections of our media.”
“…and our restraint and patience with them has been misconstrued as a sign of our weakness or policy oscillation.”
The heads of foreign missions and international agencies attended the briefing, the second of its kind in a little more than a month.
The briefing was organised in the wake of the Islamist group Hifazat-e Islam’s recent showdown and its 13-point charter of demand that includes banning public mixing of men and women.
She touched on contemporary political issues during the briefing to what she said keep the diplomats updated on Bangladesh’s latest situation.
Moni said the government hoped that ‘the right sense would prevail’ upon these media establishments, and those involved in ‘hate campaigns and communal propaganda’ would mend their actions to uphold the established principles of journalism.
To create the right policy environment in the broader context, she said, her government was working on further updating the National Broadcasting Policy and the Bangladesh Press Council Act to make them more adaptive to the evolving media scene in the country.
She stressed the need for ‘remaining cautious’ so that no individual was falsely implicated for a wrongdoing that he or she might not have committed personally or had been framed with through forged technological means.
“We have been witness to a number of such incidents in recent times where falsified attributions to individuals on blogs or social networking sites had been deliberately used as a pretext to unleash large scale violence and atrocities,” she said.
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