Al-Zubaidi urges southern journalists to work professionally and prudently
English - Saturday 21 August 2021 الساعة 08:49 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
Major General Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council, chaired, on Saturday, a joint meeting of the National Southern Media Authority, the Media Department of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council, and the Media Committee of the National Assembly.
Al-Zubaidi welcomed all attendees, praising all media efforts made during the past periods, stressing the importance of redoubling efforts more than before, especially in this fateful period that the south and its people are going through.
Al-Zubaidi praised the national efforts of the southern media in all its forms, calling for the need to strengthen media capabilities at home and abroad, the importance of highlighting the justice of the southern cause, and the entitlement of the people of the south to restore their fully sovereign civil state. He also praised the awareness and culture of active activists in social media, stressing that they were able to Confronting the massive media machine of the opponents of the south, and breaking the media blackout that had been practiced on the issue of the south and the southern revolution since its inception.
Al-Zubaidi urged all southern media professionals to work professionally, prudently, and employ the media discourse in all its deliberative dimensions and employ it against anyone who offends, or writes against the south and its people, stressing that "the southern media is one of the authorities of the southern people and one of the council's authorities as the fourth authority, so it must The southern media should activate the performance and raise the influential media skills, so that the discourse can be transformed from verbal expressions in the world of press discourse to achievement expressions in the reality of the saying and the lived reality.
The President of the Transitional Council stressed the necessity of coordinating media work between the National Southern Media Authority, the Media Department of the General Secretariat, the Media Committee in the National Assembly, and all southern media, in order to achieve the aspirations of the steadfast people of the South represented in restoring their state with full sovereignty on the boarders of pre-May 21 1990.
And, at the conclusion of his speech, he had mercy on the Dean of the Southern Press, the late Professor Hisham Bashraheel, as he is one of the pillars of the Southern press from which media professionals should be inspired by prudence of speech and accuracy of meaning.
In turn, the official spokesman of the Transitional Council, the head of the National Southern Media Authority, Ali Al-Kathiri, stressed that the role of the commission aims to unify the media discourse of the Council, in order to keep pace with the stage and all events and situations. The level of news reporting and response to rumours.
Al Kathiri pointed out that the Council has many tasks before it, and the media is the first lever that rises above the cause of the people of the south, and confronts rumors and responds to everything that detracts from the issue of the south, or works to distort the facts.
For their part, the attendees at the meeting raised a number of issues and obstacles facing the work of the Media Department of the General Secretariat and the Media Committee of the National Assembly, and solutions that would overcome those obstacles.
At the end of the meeting, Al-Zubaidi directed the need to establish a mechanism for selecting and training media talent, motivating southern media professionals in all southern governorates, as well as activating the Media Institute, working on qualification courses for media professionals, and expanding media work and openness to the other.
