Walter Williams wrote The Journalist's Creed, a personal affirmation of journalism ethics, in 1914. 

The creed has been published in more than 100 languages, and a bronze plaque of The Journalist's Creed hangs at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. 

Williams was the founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.

 ==The Journalist's Creed==

I Believe In the profession of journalism.

I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of responsibility, trustees for the public; that all acceptance of lesser service than the public service is a betrayal of this trust.

I believe that clear thinking, clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.

I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.

I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.

I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one's own pocket book is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another's instructions or another's dividends.

I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.

I believe that the journalism which succeeds the best-and best deserves success-fears God and honors man; is stoutly independent; unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power; constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of the privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance, and as far as law, an honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship, is a journalism of humanity, of and for today's world.

Source: HERE

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Malaysians must be aware that getting detractors such as Opposition and now, The Edge, to admit they might have made a mistake and to apologise is a virtual impossibility.

Ho Kay Tat’s statement “We will not apologize for the reports that have been carried” comes as no surprise. It only serves to emphasize the sheer arrogant unrepentance they have, in spite of the collateral damage wrought on Malaysia.

Just because the reports have not been challenged does not mean the authorities have endorsed these as true and valid. They want to see how far The Edge and other groups will go before going for the jugular.

At the same time, his statement that “no one has said that their reports are incorrect” shows how his mind is framed to exclude comments and criticisms strewn far and wide by various sectors on the veracity of reports from The Edge.
Malaysians do not give two hoots about whether Ho Kay Tat et al will say ‘Sorry”.

We want the entire group of people involved, including The Edge media group to take responsibility and to pay for the irreversible damage inflicted on this nation, our economy, our repute, stability, and prestige because of their irresponsible and malicious slants in their reporting.

Anti-establishment reactions such as the applause from the staff as soon as he entered the office after being given the three-month suspension by KDN shows the negative impact of all the 1MDB disinformation.

Yet they have the cheek to proclaim they “will continue to report on 1MDB.” Whether or not much can be written on 1MDB is not dependent on facts alone, but on the writer/s who in this case, clearly have a malevolent agenda.

Such brazen insolence, unrepentance, and non-compliance to this country’s legislations must be stymied. A three-month suspension is a slap on the wrist for all the damage caused by The Edge media group and their ilk.

The KDN must close down the media group totally and ban all existing and forthcoming digital platforms of the group. They should be punished because of what they have done in destabilizing this country’s political stability and economic growth. The Edge media group has no moral ground to continue its existence as it has no respect for this country’s laws or journalistic ethics.

The statement by Eric Paulsen to” let the public and market pressure assess whether the publication can be trusted or otherwise” defies common sense. If this group has been constantly feeding the population with disinformation and displays arrogance and lack of remorse, making unbiased decisions would be a real challenge.

Good journalism is not measured by the extent of which reporting is executed without fear and threat.

Good journalism share common elements including the principles of—truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability—as these apply to the acquisition of newsworthy information and its subsequent dissemination to the public.

On all counts, The Edge has failed miserably.

The fact that The Edge has no sense of all the above and its arrogant unrepentance is reason that it completely obliterated from this country physically and digitally.

Let it be a lesson to other delusional heroic wannabes that social order is a necessity for the continued existence of our nation. For that, laws are created, observed, and enforced.

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Those who hate the status quo and are intent on overthrowing the government will stop at nothing in spinning their yarn to confuse Malaysians.

The latest blog post of a former newsman here (also featured here) begins with the tale of a sick child whose RM700 machine now costs RM742. The warped angle of the story distorted beyond measure must be highlighted so as to understand the hidden agenda of that short post.

What is most appalling is how another website reposted by manipulating the headline to Kadir: Millions suffering under GST, no Aidil Fitri cheer to stir the wrath of those who will be celebrating Raya next week.

1. The use of that scenario was to create pathos in readers so craftily that the 42RM increase in price (exactly 6%) can fan stronger anti-GST feelings in the minds of readers.

Now what that writer conveniently chose to omit is the rationale for GST.

GST was implemented as a tax reform programmed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing taxation system.

Internationally,  GST is a better tax system as it is more effective, efficient, transparent and business friendly. Apart from stirring economic growth, it has increased competitiveness in the global market.

GST generates a more stable source of revenue to the nation because it is less susceptible to economic fluctuations.

Due to the misinformation spread by the Opposition and some media, Malaysians perceive GST negatively.

Therefore, to use a sad tale of ONE family to state the current economic climate WITHOUT factoring other intra- and inter-causal economic effects is nothing short of irresponsible.

What we see is something more serious.

Those quarters who used to condemn media for criticising the government and then taking action against them seem to be working hand in glove with the very people they hated in the past - all because they have one common enemy - the status quo.

That they can feature such a lopsided and warped report is nothing short of irresponsibility and non-compliance to Code of Ethics for media and also Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Content Code, especially Section 7:

Content, which contains false material and is likely to mislead, due amongst others to

incomplete information is to be avoided. Content providers must observe measures outlined in specific parts of this Code to limit the likelihood of perpetuating untruths via the communication of false content.

7.2 Content is false where prior to communications reasonable measures to verify its truth have not been adopted or taken.

7.3 Content which is false, is expressly prohibited except in any of the following

circumstances:

(a) Satire and parody;

(b) Where it is clear to an ordinary user that the content is fiction.

7.4 Code Subjects must take all necessary steps outlined in the specific parts of this Code to limit the likelihood of provision of false Content. 

2. The twisted link between GST and hardship felt of masses completely ignored the current climate whereby Malaysia is NOT the only nation suffering from a slowdown.

Although economic dynamics in the ex-Japan Asia region were stable in Q1, with GDP expanding at the previous quarter’s annual rate of 6.2%, growth came in slightly below the 6.3% increase expected last month. 

In fact, most of the economies in the region fared worse compared to the previous quarter in Q1, including the region’s driving force China. 

Only India, Singapore and Thailand accelerated in the January–March period.  (Source: Here June 25th 2015)

You can see Singapore's National Debt HERE whilst that for Malaysia is HERE. Do not just compare the absolute figures but please remember the differences in terms of size and population. Perhaps then you can see things in a clearer perspective instead of through the warped lens of naysayers.

3. When Fitch ratings go up, they are unhappy and if otherwise, they are STILL unhappy. Nothing makes them happy until they topple the current government.

What can you say about such naysayers and spinners who have no scruples at all and would stoop to the lowest low just to run down this country and to inflict the greatest damage on our country's economy and the loyalty of Malaysians?

Well, those crooked villains push crooked pens for a crooked master!

"There was a crooked man," 

BY MOTHER GOOSE 

So, who is that crooked master with his crooked minions pushing crooked pens?

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What a blardy liar you are, Sarawak Report!

This time, you have gone too far in your latest post SENSATIONAL FINDINGS! - Prime Minister Najib Razak's Personal Accounts Linked To 1MDB Money Trail MALAYSIA EXCLUSIVE!

You and your accomplices have been the ones who sensationalised news from years ago when you found a firm partnership in a career of fraud with Cullen Johnson and Elaine White, both of whom are serving time in jail in US after being extradited. On what moral ground are you standing in your latest abominable accusation on Prime Minister Najib?

I am going to show Malaysians and the world, a nation and even those beyond our boundaries have been CONNED big time by Sarawak Report and their partners-in-crime.

Sarawak Report uses the SAME modus operandi of tendering falsifying records/documents in quite a few instances and the TRAGEDY is that MANY MALAYSIANS believed in these unverified documentation simply because they have been brainwashed into thinking that anything that runs down the PM or BN has to be true.

Behold, the facts that speak for themselves. At the end of this post, tell me honestly. Do you STILL believe in Sarawak Report?

Oh yes, Clare Rewcastle-Brown...Lim Sian See and I are still waiting for you to post your alleged three million emails. I dare you to post ALL 3 million emails with full email headers. Come on, bring them on. Post post post those 3 million emails!

If you fail to do so, it means it is another scam! Anyway, on with the story.

Preamble

Who REALLY is Clare Rewcastle-Brown? Who is Cullen Johnson and what is his pivotal role in SR's malevolent scam agenda?

Let's start by getting to know Cullen Johnson and Elaine White. Then you will understand how Sarawak Report pulled off the greatest scam of this country, to have to read this damning article from Canadian Lawyer Mag (CLICK HERE) about Cullen Johnson and his wife  who billed themselves as experts in finding hidden money offshore in a divorce case between Eric Cunningham and his wife.

Excerpt:

Two different judges in Cunningham’s divorce found there was no basis to the claim he had hidden any assets in offshore accounts. In a 2007 summary judgment, Justice Laurence A. Pattillo noted Cunningham’s “evidence establishes in my view, through independent third parties, that what was alleged by [his wife] (based on her private investigator’s reports) is not only not true, but in my view, fraudulent.”

So what went wrong? As it turned out, Blaneys had hired a Newmarket, Ont.-based private investigation firm called Internal Affairs, run by a husband and wife duo of Cullen Johnson and Elaine White, to conduct an asset sweep of Cunningham’s holdings on behalf of Joan Montgomery, Cunningham’s estranged spouse. Johnson and White billed themselves as experts in finding hidden money offshore. What Blaneys didn’t know, however, was White and Johnson were largely running a scam: Instead of producing genuine information, the private investigators simply manufactured much of it and charged clients tens of thousands of dollars for forged and bogus documents. 

In the case of Cunningham, they presented Blaneys with an impressive-looking 59-page, single-spaced dossier, replete with bank account numbers, dollar amounts, and wire transaction records — for the most part fiction. MORE HERE

According to this site:

HUNTSVILLE – Eric Cunningham, a former Hamilton MPP, died in his sleep on New Year’s day at his Huntsville home.

According to a Toronto Star article, Cunningham died just hours after he told a friend that the stress from long-running lawsuit he was involved in was going kill him.

A Hamilton native, Cunningham was a formal federal candidate for the Liberal Party, first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1975 as a Liberal MPP. He was re-elected in 1977 and 1981 and served until 1984.

Private investigators Cullen Johnson and Elaine White, who are currently serving time in the U.S. for money laundering, are accused of attracting clients by faking bank records that suggest relatives have hidden offshore money, the Toronto Star reported. (More here)

More evidence here: June 21, 2013Another court reversal for private detectives who defamed former Hamilton MPP

May 15, 2013: Former T.O cop and wife falsified investigation reports to courts

And now, ladies and and gentleman, the following will show....

What Cullen Johnson and his wife did to Cunningham was expertly repeated by Sarawak Report in the Mahmud Abu Bekir vs Shahnaz Abdul Majid divorce case.

Extract from Winifred Poh's article:

But it has quietly emerged that the whole thing was wrong. Not inaccurate. Not misguided, not exaggerated. The Swiss government, which has unlimited access to the Swiss banks, rejected the whole lot. 

There is no money in the Swiss banks. 

There never was.

How could so many people be wrong at the same time?

The stunning answer is that they made it up. 

Far away, in the Caribbean, the FBI finally extradited a Canadian, Cullen Johnson, who with his wife had been on the run from the US and Canadian police and a lot of very angry people because he had claimed that he could hack bank accounts, when in fact he was forging them instead, and selling the forgeries. He has admitted it. 

And shortly after the US authorities arrested him and seized his computers, the correspondence between him and Clare Rewcastle-Brown was leaked on the web. She has ranted about it, and as usual blames dark forces in Malaysia. But in doing so she has demonstrated that the material is the real thing.

Her correspondence showed Cullen Johnson and Rewcastle-Brown confiding in each other, as they tried to get Shahnaz Abdul Majid to hire him. Shahnaz lied to the Syariah Court in her divorce, claiming she knew these things to be true, though she was ten years separated from her errant husband. But she hadn’t, it appeared, known enough, so she was persuaded by her lawyers to use Cullen Johnson. 

And as soon as his forged material was uttered in court, Clare Rewcastle pops up and endorses it. And then she and the Bruno Manser Fund sent it round the world.

Well, Winifred is not the only one who attests to the criminal antics of SR and their ilk!

In March 2015, Blogtakes wrote:

Clare Rewcastle Brown is having great fun with selectively publicising stolen documents on her blog portal Sarawak Report.  She has been careful to tell MalaysiaKini that , “…I had neither forged nor hacked to get this material…”.  We are glad she made this clear.  That Clare didn’t forge or hack in this case is reassuring, though it doesn’t mean that the documents weren’t stolen.  They and clearly were, as the PetroSaudi complaint to the British Police makes clear. 

What is particularly ironic is that Clare Rewcastle has something of a history in this regard.   

She complained when HER documents were hacked and publicised a few years ago.    

She spoke against how the hackers went on to “…maliciously distort our emails and Skype messages, which are now being selectively published”.   So we can also feel safe in knowing that Rewcastle is neither distorting nor selectively publishing her own stolen material. 

And why was that hack so important today?   

Because it exposed her relationship and dealings with the forger, Cullen Johnson, currently in a Federal jail in the USA, when they were working together to try to get him hired by Shahnaz Abdul Majid, who needed to attack her ex husband.

Canadian Cullen Johnson was duly hired by the lawyers, and his forged report of extraordinary wealth and bank accounts was duly promoted in court by Shahnaz. She tells the judge that her former husband has 111 off shore accounts stacked in Colossal wealth. 

Clare Rewcastle, amazed by the revelations, beamed the news round the world, while her associate in Switzerland Bruno Manser Fund, arranged for an MP to articulate the massive off shore wealth in the Swiss Parliament, triggering further false headlines.

After an exhaustive investigation, the government of Switzerland announced in 2013 that the allegations were false. Well of course they were.  

They were a forgery, something that Rewcastle is now amazed about. 

It is an interesting pattern.  Massive “revelations” passed through Clare Rewcastle, which when duly ranted about by opposition politicians, trigger serious government investigations.   

(More here)

And if you are STILL not convinced:

Check: This article and also this article.

Ohhhhhh the best is yet to come!!! The latest judgement of a very prominent case will give you the best proven evidence of HOW SARAWAK REPORT is full of shit.

And this time, there is evidence from a very prestigious court in another country!

Stay tuned for more in SR: Nowhere to Escape - Chapter 4 The Truth is Out

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P.S.

Think again...who helped Clare?

Now you can understand why the emails posted in her site are without email headers. Note how her posts are always written in passive voice whereby you never know who are her sources, and of course why she uses 'WE', 'US', 'OUR' and refers to Justo as a 'FORMER COLLEAGUE'. It all falls into place now and makes sense!

I have verified my sources against court trials, international websites, law sites etc.

What verification can Sarawak Report provide now? Lies and more lies? Yes, SR and her team hoodwinked so many from this nation without evidence but merely via unproven hearsay and documents obtained legally, which have been openly admitted by Justo to be stolen. And yet they still dare to make such daring baseless allegations?

Now you should realise that NEWS WEBSITES THAT WORSHIPPED SARAWAK REPORT POSTS IN THEIR PORTALS MUST FACE THE MUSIC FOR NOT VERIFYING FACTS AND DOCUMENTS!

All parties affected by SR lies from MUST JOIN HANDS and together report to Interpol and also to sue Sarawak Report!

Please Read Chapter 1: Checkmate here and Chapter 2: Conjuring Conjectures here.

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