People used to believe newspapers as truth. Even after the Holy Quran, people used to believe newspapers. But in the last 17 years, due to the misreporting during the dictatorship, people started forgetting that. The people of the country had taken their faith from newspapers.
During the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected executive committee of Magura Press Club, the program's inaugurator, Bangladesh Television Director General Mahbub Alam Gora, said these things to the journalists in his inaugural speech on Friday evening.
Magura Press Club President Professor Saidur Rahman presided over the program and the press club's general secretary Shafiqul Islam Shafiq moderated the program at the Press Club premises.
Special guests were Magura Police Superintendent Mina Mahmuda BPM, District Information Officer Pavel Das, Bangladesh Observer Staff Reporter Shahiduzzaman Mohan, BNP leader Monowar Hossain Khan, former district BNP convener Ali Ahmed, former district BNP senior joint convener Ahsan Habib Kishore, life members of the Press Club Dr Ali Afzal, Sharif Azizul Hasan Mohan, Dipankar Biswas and others.
The speaker Mahbub Alam said that journalists should actively work to make the country's mass media acceptable to the people through real journalism. For a long time, the country's governance system was transformed into a one-party dictatorship and all the organs were destroyed, and the mass media was not spared from it. In this opportunity, a class of flattering, personal opportunistic journalists was created. The people of the country have seen their journalism.
He called on the currently working journalists to do free journalism in a free country.
Posthumous reception for 10 martyrs of Magura who were shot dead in the anti-discrimination movement during the August Revolution and 5 journalists of the Magura Press Club who passed away, and welcoming of 31 journalists who became members of the Magura Press Club after a long 25 years.
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