Wed, 4 December 2013, Phnom Penh Post,
Meas Sokchea
A senior ruling party official yesterday accused foreign journalists and media outlets in Cambodia of interfering in the Kingdom’s governance and urging political instability.
Speaking to reporters in the capital, Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said a number of journalists – including from the Post – needed to review their approach to reporting issues in Cambodia or face possiblelegal action.
“[I] would like to tell the foreign press that have interfered deeply in political governance in Cambodia, please think about this carefully,” he said, adding that those reporting in Cambodia needed to decide whether they were journalists or political activists. “This is not a threat – it is a request for them to be professional.”
But Vun singled out the Post as an example of a media outlet that must “take responsibility” for their reporting or face the consequences.
“The Phnom Penh Post must write properly what I said. If they write it wrong, I will take them to court,” he said.
Vun also said that some journalists were “urging violence”, but did not specify whether they worked for local or foreign-owned outlets.
Media analyst Moeun Chhean Nariddh, director of the Cambodia Institute for Media Studies, was not surprised by Vun’s targeting of media outlets that the government doesn’t control.
“I think the [communist] mentality has continued with some officials, and lawmakers who think that any media outlet that does not support the CPP is against them,” he said.
Chhean Nariddh said he had not seen examples of foreign media in Cambodia interfering in issues of governance.
“I have followed international journalism practices here for more than 20 years,” he said. “What international presses have done in Cambodia is follow [international standards]. We’re lucky to have international media organisations … working as role models for local journalists and media outlets.”
Pa Nguon Tieng, president of the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, said the focus of international media outlets was not where Vun suggested it was.
“If [foreign or independent] news outlets are not reporting the news that is happening, in the long run, they won’t get advertising,” he said.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SHANE WORRELL
Speaking to reporters in the capital, Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said a number of journalists – including from the Post – needed to review their approach to reporting issues in Cambodia or face possible
“[I] would like to tell the foreign press that have interfered deeply in political governance in Cambodia, please think about this carefully,” he said, adding that those reporting in Cambodia needed to decide whether they were journalists or political activists. “This is not a threat – it is a request for them to be professional.”
But Vun singled out the Post as an example of a media outlet that must “take responsibility” for their reporting or face the consequences.
“The Phnom Penh Post must write properly what I said. If they write it wrong, I will take them to court,” he said.
Vun also said that some journalists were “urging violence”, but did not specify whether they worked for local or foreign-owned outlets.
Media analyst Moeun Chhean Nariddh, director of the Cambodia Institute for Media Studies, was not surprised by Vun’s targeting of media outlets that the government doesn’t control.
“I think the [communist] mentality has continued with some officials, and lawmakers who think that any media outlet that does not support the CPP is against them,” he said.
Chhean Nariddh said he had not seen examples of foreign media in Cambodia interfering in issues of governance.
“I have followed international journalism practices here for more than 20 years,” he said. “What international presses have done in Cambodia is follow [international standards]. We’re lucky to have international media organisations … working as role models for local journalists and media outlets.”
Pa Nguon Tieng, president of the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, said the focus of international media outlets was not where Vun suggested it was.
“If [foreign or independent] news outlets are not reporting the news that is happening, in the long run, they won’t get advertising,” he said.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SHANE WORRELL
4 comments:
Look at their attitudes phay siphan and chheang vun,if we compare they are really from the jungle the he talk and the way their attitudes it seem to be a blind who never seen anything the truth by their own eyes that I called them chhke people.
ពួកវាស្គាល់លទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតេយ្យឡើងខ្លោចទៅ
ហើយ ស៊ីមិនកើត មានតែបុកឲ្យម៉ដ្ឋទុកធ្វើជី
បាចក្នុងស្រែ ។
ពីអញដែលស្អប់ពួគហ្អែងដូចអាចម៍
This uneducated foul could not make it in France. So, he went to cambodia to corrupt the country and make khmer people suffer. Khmer people need to wake up and don't let this foul run your life any more.
To ah Ach Kwek Phnek Kwak Hun Sen,ah Chieng Vun is a good dog because this mad dog likes to hunt, so why he becomes more and more embolden than before. He enjoys much of the jungle rule that ah Chamkuot Chiem Yeap and Ah kwak ach kwek Hun Sen have taught him.
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