The editors and staff working with different media organizations held protests outside the press colony to protest against the continued ban on publication of newspapers on day four by the Government.
Valley-based newspapers on Wednesday asked the state government to come clean on continued ban on publication of the newspapers, saying the “government was using all the available tactics to hit the credibility of the media institutions”.
“On Monday Chief Minister’s advisor Prof Amitabh Mattoo approached us insisting that it (ban) was a mistake for which he apologized. At the same time the state government resorted to propaganda blitzkrieg insisting that there was no ban…editors took this issue very seriously and asked the Prof Matto that government must own the ban and issue a statement guaranteeing that media operations are not being hampered.”
“We haven’t heard anything from anyone in the government since then. It indicates that the Government has not changed its press emergency…in wake of these developments it may not be possible for us to resume publication of newspapers,” said the statement.
Later the editors and staff working with different media organizations held protests outside the press colony to protest against the continued ban on publication of newspapers on day four by the Government
