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Minister Supports cancelling Information Ministry
[Yemen Post] Yemeni Minister of Information Ali al-Amrani revealed on Saturday that the Ministry of Information and the traditional official media are going to be cancelled soon in line with the changes that took place in the country after the youth revolution succeeded in ousting former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh.... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... In an interview with the state-run 26 newspaper, al-Amrani said that there are ongoing efforts to change the traditional official media role from being a tool that serves the President and the government to a tool that serves the people and their issues. When asked about the credibility of what some people say that he is going to be the last Minister for Information in the country and that a new committee is going to be tasked with supervising the media conduct, he replied: "I hope this is going to happen... I'm with cancelling the ministry as well as the role of the official media." "The official media and the partisan media have to stop and we will try to reach this outcome or even, at least, I can say we have this tendency." Al-Amrani said. Speaking about journalism and publications law in Yemen, he stressed that this law must be reformed. The official media used to be a tool to trumpet the achievements of the former regime headed by Saleh. But, even after the official media was taken over by al-Amrani, who belongs to the Joint Meeting Parties, the official media still carries out the same mission. The only difference is that it praises the current regime not the old one. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-27 |
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