Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 29:
Following the accusations framed against Imphal Today, by DESAM of extorting money in its name, the Editors' Forum Manipur and the All Manipur Working Journalists' Union today held a joint meeting and decided to condemn the act of extorting money from Kangla Foods by some employees of the newspaper establishment in the name of the student body.
The meeting further decided that no newspaper firm will hire any of the employees of Imphal Today involved in yellow journalism as well as to suspend the membership of the employees of Imphal Today from the AMWJU and EFM.
The matter of terminating their membership will also be discussed later, the meeting agreed.
The two scribes' bodies also decided to appeal to all those engaged in the profession to desist from such unethical practices in the future.
The meeting also urged all concerned to abide by the local code of conduct of the journalists before any organisation or any individual wants to take up any action against any journalist or newspaper firm.