N'ganj journos condemn
Narayanganj Press Club and Narayanganj Journalists' Union yesterday condemned the recent remarks of Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman offending journalists.
In a joint statement, Halim Azad and Khandakar Shah Alam, president and general secretary of Narayanganj Press Club, and Nafiz Ashraf and Afzal Hossain Ponti, president and general secretary of Narayanganj Journalists' Union, called the remarks “ugly and aggressive".
The statement quoted Shamim as saying, “Journalists are dogs. In our childhood, the people who gained wealth used to keep pet dogs...Later, the people who grew richer started to have media. These are Alsatian dogs.”
Shamim made the comments while talking to several journalists on Thursday, and the Bangla daily Prothom Alo published his remarks on Saturday, it said.
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