The Star 6 Jan 2006 KUALA LUMPUR:
Two top editors of China Press have resigned over its report on the naked ear squat pictures published in its night edition on Nov 23. The two submitted their resignation letters, which took effect immediately, to bear full responsibility for “wrongly identifying the woman who was filmed doing ear squats naked in a police locker room as a Chinese national”. The resignations of editor-in-chief Chong Choong Nam and executive editor-in-chief Wong Siew Peng was announced on the front-page of its night edition yesterday.
China Press also stated in its report that it had wrongly identified the woman as a Chinese national and apologised for any inconvenience and misunderstanding caused by the report. On Nov 23, the daily’s night edition reported in its front-page the existence of a video clip of a woman being forced to do ear squats naked in a police locker room, and identified her as a Chinese national. It was later established by an independent commission of inquiry that she was a local Malay woman who had been arrested during a drug bust.
This should serve as a reminder to the other Mat Kepoh out there to be responsible on the reporting, and I believe they did the responsible thing by relingquishing their post. I wonder if others are responsible enough to do the same.
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