Photographers and videographers leaving their cameras on the floor at one small corner at the Parliament lobby as a gesture to boycott the restriction to limit the access of press men at the August House.
KUALA LUMPUR: Newspaper and news website chief editors have lent their support to colleagues protesting against restrictive moves imposed by Parliament authorities, saying the decision was an unnecessary hindrance and an insult to the press.
China Press editor-in-chief Teoh Yang Khoon said: “Reporters are never a security threat and we know where to draw the line in respecting the privacy of the Members of Parliament.
The Star group chief editor Datuk Wong Chun Wai, in his chunwai08.blogspot.com entry titled Fast, Furious and Stupid in KL, said the decision infuriated the media.“It is unprecedented. The decision had left reporters stunned and certainly insulted,” said Wong.
Updated 25 June 2007 1.30pm: Members of the media are free to move around again in the Parliament lobby, after the barricades that were set up to confine them in a corner were removed Wednesday.
Photo and Text courtesy of The Star Malaysia
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