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90036
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 01:39
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ANTARA`S CHIEF MEETS IRANIAN PRESIDENT
Tehran, Nov 15 (ANTARA) - President Director of Indonesian National News Agency Dr. Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf met with Iran's President Ahmadinejad here Monday, ANTARA's senior journalist Ahmad Kusaeni reported.
Ahmadinejad and Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf who is concurrently president of the Organization of Asia Pacific News Agencies (OANA) met after the close of an executive board meeting of OANA whose members total 40 news agencies from 33 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
In his speech before Ahmadinejad, Mukhlis Yusuf reported that OANA which was established in 1961 struggled against the domination of information by western media whose point of view was frequently not suitable to that of media in Asia and the Pacific.
Mukhlis said the current form of struggle was different from that in the past when the media's credibility and cooperation among media practitioners were needed to report on events in Asia and the Pacific although agendas of propaganda by certain media are still found.
The developed countries with one tenth of the world's population dominated two-thirds of the total flow of information. As much as 80 percent of international news came from western news agencies and mass media every day.
"It is unfair if western media dictate what they want to cover and the direction of what they want to cover. It's very unfair if western media decide the agendas of coverage and what appear in the headlines of newspapers in Asia and the Pacific," Mukhlis said.
President Ahmadinejad nodded his head to agree with the OANA president's remarks, then clapped hands when Mukhlis said that what happened in Iran, for instance, should be reported by Iranian journalists including those from IRNA or Mehr News Agency by giving priority to credibility.
What happened in Indonesia should also be reported by Indonesian journalists, especially ANTARA instead of foreign reporters who arrived in Jakarta only for one or two weeks but they claimed themselves experts on Indonesia.
The Iranian president said mass media in Asia and the Pacific should unite in a synergy if they want to terminate the domination of western media which often showed interests harmful to other countries.
Stories from OANA news agencies should not imitate the news patterns of western media which tend to make biased and negative stories and manipulate stories for western interests which are different from those of the countries in Asia and the Pacific.
OANA's news stories should be free from untruth but give hope, Ammadinejad said.***
Ahmadinejad and Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf who is concurrently president of the Organization of Asia Pacific News Agencies (OANA) met after the close of an executive board meeting of OANA whose members total 40 news agencies from 33 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
In his speech before Ahmadinejad, Mukhlis Yusuf reported that OANA which was established in 1961 struggled against the domination of information by western media whose point of view was frequently not suitable to that of media in Asia and the Pacific.
Mukhlis said the current form of struggle was different from that in the past when the media's credibility and cooperation among media practitioners were needed to report on events in Asia and the Pacific although agendas of propaganda by certain media are still found.
The developed countries with one tenth of the world's population dominated two-thirds of the total flow of information. As much as 80 percent of international news came from western news agencies and mass media every day.
"It is unfair if western media dictate what they want to cover and the direction of what they want to cover. It's very unfair if western media decide the agendas of coverage and what appear in the headlines of newspapers in Asia and the Pacific," Mukhlis said.
President Ahmadinejad nodded his head to agree with the OANA president's remarks, then clapped hands when Mukhlis said that what happened in Iran, for instance, should be reported by Iranian journalists including those from IRNA or Mehr News Agency by giving priority to credibility.
What happened in Indonesia should also be reported by Indonesian journalists, especially ANTARA instead of foreign reporters who arrived in Jakarta only for one or two weeks but they claimed themselves experts on Indonesia.
The Iranian president said mass media in Asia and the Pacific should unite in a synergy if they want to terminate the domination of western media which often showed interests harmful to other countries.
Stories from OANA news agencies should not imitate the news patterns of western media which tend to make biased and negative stories and manipulate stories for western interests which are different from those of the countries in Asia and the Pacific.
OANA's news stories should be free from untruth but give hope, Ammadinejad said.***
