Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 19 asked the press offices to manifest their core values of providing verified news and intensify the fight against fabrications as well as fake news. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc onJune 19 asked the press offices to manifest their core values of providingverified news and intensify the fight against fabrications as well as fakenews.
This is the mission of the press and the fight will affirmits role in the new period, the Government leader stressed during a working sessionin Hanoi with the executive board of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA),on the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the Vietnam RevolutionaryPress Day (June 21).
President of the association Thuan Huu briefed PM Phuc onthe operation of the VJA in the recent past which has attracted special attentionfrom the Party and State, while Minister of Information and Communications NguyenManh Hung proposed that telecommunications firms reduce the rental of broadbandinternet transmission lines for press offices.
For his part, Director General of the Vietnam News AgencyNguyen Duc Loi reported to the PM the difficulties in terms of resources. Healso said the VNA is perfecting a fact-checking project to detect fake news.
PM Phuc affirmed that the socio-economic achievements of thecountry in the recent past were made possible with active and important contributionsby the press, and spoke highly of the operation of the association. He alsopointed out that a number of newspapers did not respect their principles andviolated the professional ethics as well as the law.
The press should be a pioneer in the major and new issues ofthe country and the Party, the leaders said and stressed that the revolutionarypress must reflect the main stream of the society, namely the building andprotection of the socialist system and the building of a fair, democratic and civilizedcountry as well as the preservation of the national culture.
Also at the session, the PM further said the State and the Governmentwill create a new mechanism for the press to further develop.-VNA
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