B Mirror Desk : Some claim that the current state of affairs is worse than it was previously. Has there ever been a situation like this when three journalists lost their jobs? Three journalists have not lost their jobs. You agitated journalists ought to demonstrate outside the television stations. We are neither laying off journalists or providing them with new positions. No action that restricts freedom of speech will be taken by the interim government.
These remarks were made by Shafiqul Alam, the press secretary for the chief advisor, who was the main guest at a Friday discussion titled “Bangladesh after the July Revolution: Challenges of the Media.” The Chittagong Metropolitan Journalists Union and the Chittagong Press Club organized the gathering, which was held in the Chittagong Press Club’s July Revolution Memorial Hall. In order to stop false information, Shafiqul Alam at the time recommended educating journalists in fact-checking and other subjects.
“There has never been a better time for people who are actually conducting journalism in Bangladesh,” stated Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam. Nobody’s voice is being silenced by us. We are not going to someone’s printing press and sealing it, nor are we smashing anyone’s pen. Do journalism, we’re telling everyone. After taking over, Chief Advisor Professor Yunus called all of the editors. “You write frankly, we are not above mistakes,” he continued. You have an obligation to call out my errors. “After July, we have had the largest struggle with this deception,” the press secretary stated.
. Additionally, there are two forces at play: the Awami League members and the Indian media, which is a major source of misinformation. They’ve all merged into one. They have millions of cash in their possession. Every day, they are releasing one video after another. You can’t even tell if it’s true or not because you’re ingesting it through YouTube and Facebook.
According to Shafiqul Alam, the way people consume news has evolved. This leads to a steady flow of deception, misinformation, and misinformation. Additionally, these are destabilizing society. This was observed to be domestic before. International media is now revealed to be horribly implicated in this as well. Every day, they spread misleading information. A lot of people think so. Their primary objective is to spread misinformation in our name.’
Special guests Quader Gani Chowdhury, secretary general, and Obaidur Rahman, acting president of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, attended the gathering. They talked about the morality and advantages of journalism in their talks. The concept paper was delivered during the meeting by the top advisor’s deputy press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar.
“We all know that in the past, government individuals used to control who would attend as a panelist on discussion programs or who would not,” Abul Kalam Azad Majumder wrote in the concept note. This type of behavior has since been discontinued. There have also been instances in the past where government officials chose which reporter would cover a specific assignment. This type of behavior has now likewise been discontinued. Premier University Vice Chancellor SM Noshrul Qadir, Associate Professor Shahidul Haque of Chittagong University’s Department of Communication and Journalism, Abdus Sattar, President of the Chittagong District Bar Association, Khurshid Jamil Chowdhury, Member Secretary of the Bangladesh Sammilit Peshajibi Parishad Chittagong Division, and others were among those who spoke at the meeting.
