Malaysiakini: WHY TAN HOON CHENG BEEN DETAINED?

Why she was been detained ? These are the questions that we need to analyze as to why the government use this harsh decision to held her and detained her under Internal Security Act (ISA).

After my full shocks and surprises yesterday about three of them been arrested, I'm only concern about our journalist, Tan Hoon Cheng from Sin Chew Daily. I get a call from one of my friends this morning, expressing his dissatisfaction over the detention of Tan.

I have to explain to him that the motif and the intention of her detention is to acknowledge all the journalist in Malaysia (STRONG WARNING) to be careful in the future in what ever contents that they going to pen down. To judge and to analyze whether this article or words should be written down.

Because of her reports, not even one drop of inks need to be pen down " CHINESE ARE SQUATTERS ", its create a chaos for the past three weeks in our country. The impact was huge because it creates a STRONG RACIAL remarks for the whole nations.

From lower incomes earner to higher incomes earner, from working people to independent businessman, from governments staff to politician, everyone was talking about it. So there is a Security Threats to the country.

No doubt she was just writing it accordingly, I can terms her that she was unlucky. She might be a scapegoat in order to issue a strong warning among all the journalist in Malaysia. "Remember this is a Multiracial country."

No doubt as a journalist, she has the rights to write the truth. As a journalism they have been expected to follow a stringent code of journalistic conduct that requires them to, among other things:

1) Use original sources of information, including interviews with people directly involved in a story, original documents and other direct sources of information, whenever possible, and cite the sources of this information in reports;

2) Fully attribute information gathered from other published sources, should original sources not be available (not to do so is considered plagiarism; some newspapers also note when an article uses information from previous reports);

3) Use multiple original sources of information, especially if the subject of the report is controversial;

4) Check every fact reported;

5) Find and report every side of a story possible;

6) Report without bias, illustrating many aspects of a conflict rather than siding with one;

7) Approach researching and reporting a story with a balance between objectivity and skepticism;

8) Use careful judgment when organizing and reporting information;

9) Be careful about granting confidentiality to sources (news organizations usually have specific rules that journalists must follow concerning grants of confidentiality);

10) Decline gifts or favors from any subject of a report, to avoid the appearance of being influenced;

11) Abstain from reporting or otherwise participating in the research and writing about a subject in which the journalist has a personal stake or bias that cannot be set aside;

So my advice to all the journalist out there.......,

USE CAREFUL JUDGEMENT WHEN ORGANIZING AND REPORTING INFORMATION

.......because whatever things that you want to pen down, if not careful enough might even bring a total disastrous to the whole nations. AGREED WITH ME ???