Papers object to new media law
From Times Wire Reports
Leading daily newspapers came out with blank front pages to protest a media law they say undermines press freedom.
The papers ran empty front pages except for a call for the abolition of the law.
Broadsheet as well as tabloid dailies object chiefly to a clause that forces newspapers to run responses from people they have reported on, even if the published information is true. They fear they will be overwhelmed by politicians’ requests to print their reactions.
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