KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 – The Group Editor-in-chief of The Star says he is puzzled by the accusations of bias levelled at the newspaper by MCA presidential candidate Datuk Chua Jui Meng.
“I do not know what he means,” Datuk Wong Chun Wai told The Malaysian Insider in a phone interview this evening.
In an open letter addressed to the editor-in-chief of the local English daily yesterday, Datuk Chua Jui Meng accused a reporter and the editorial team of going all out to “put words in my mouth andpaint me as a power-hungry man” in an article published on October 11.
Chua, in his letter, wrote that the paper had tried to disparage his reputation when it reported him as saying he would “sacrifice” his party peers “so that I can be appointed to the Cabinet if I am elected President”.
In the same letter, he stated that he had asked for a “correction” from Wong, which the latter had agreed to do the next day.
“However, to my disappointment, on October 12th you published an article saying that I claimed that my statement was 'taken out of context',” he continued in the following paragraph.
Wong responded that he had made the amendment as requested.
“We carried a clarification the next day and we have continued to provide space for him in coverage, you see. We provided a Page 1 picture of him yesterday with Ong Tee Keat under the heading 'Full House' and the day before that, with Chan Kong Choy,” he said.
He added: “If he feels he needs to make further clarification, we will definitely run his clarification. It's no problem at all, you see. We will continue to be fair in his coverage.”
Asked if he had seen the video clip of the interview, which Chua said he had put on video–sharing website YouTube titled “Keeping the Star newspaper honest”, Wong replied he had not.
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