KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim today defended Astro’s censorship of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Bersih 3.0 coverage, stressing that the satellite pay television provider should be given credit for showing only the “best parts” of last Saturday’s protest for electoral reforms.
“Each broadcasting house is at liberty to exercise its own style of eliciting the best news item for its station.
“It has to be given credit for knowing which part of the news is newsworthy and therefore they should exercise that within their rights of itself as a broadcasting firm,” the information, communication and culture minister told reporters here today.
He added that in the case of Bersih 3.0, or “Kotor 3.0”, as he put it, the coverage had been edited so that only the “best part” was aired by Astro.
