Friday, November 21, 2008

Services to Lusa degraded itself, says Board of Editors

Left Bloc wants to hear Luis Miguel Viana in Parliament
The Board of Editors of the Lusa (CR) "does not endorse that there was an improvement of service" in recent years, and "found, however, that there are clear signs of degradation and its disregard for the rules governing the service agency. "

In a memo sent yesterday to the wording of DN, the CR differs from the opinion of the director of information (DI). Luis Miguel Viana had stated that "editorial, the Lusa improved much." The Committee also rejects the statements of DI, which had access through the Morning Post, the purpose of the interviews Cavaco Silva and José Sócrates. "It is untrue that has been defined with the Council, the formulation of a principle that allows not just copies." Luis Miguel Viana responds: "The Morning Post the truncating my sentences. What was agreed was the presentation of proposals for the formulation of a principle," which, as the DN found, the DI included in the explanation that sent the Presidency of the Republic. That is what the Miguel Viana tried to explain to the CR, having been aware that he would send a note. "In 34 years of democratic life I have never seen a CR refuse meeting with the director before sending a notice to the newspapers about it," he said.

Called to Parliament

The Left Block (BE) filed a petition yesterday calling for the presence of the director's information Lusa in Parliament. At issue is further reported that the CR of the agency expressed its "deep concern" with the "contours censorial" of a ban that prevented the journalists from using the word characterized stagnation for the development of the GDP. "It is strictly lie that has ever been prohibited words," said the DNLuís Miguel Viana. According to the director of information, "there is a war of members of the Committee against the leadership. They use everything we can to throw mud on the agency," said the person responsible, "because of the restructuring we are doing in Lusa, and objectives of greater demand editorial. "

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