Another example of declining standards at bdnews24.com, and its partisanship towards the Awami League govt ('Recording History' their recent logo, what a joke!). The agency sends a breaking news alert saying 'UN says PM's initiative for talks is positive, Opposition should accept it since it is the only way out of deadlock'. Now that sounds pretty significant, so I go to their website to get the full story. Headline of top article states 'PM’s invitation should be heeded: UN'. And the first paras states the following: 'UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has said the BNP should have responded positively to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s invitation to start a dialogue to end the deadlock.' So wow, this is significant it seems. It is only however in the next paragraph, that you read that this was stated not by the UN official but by .... yes Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to UN AK Abdul Momen. One must ask (a) why bdnews24 did not contact the UN to confirm if this is what was stated or (b) if they felt they wanted to go with government statement, make it very clear in the headline that this is what the AL government official said to bdnews, not what the UN said! It may well be the case the UN said this (I personally think that they should have) but anyone who has has to deal with the Bangladesh govt should know that on some many occasions govt ministers simply do not relay accurately what diplomats have said to them. You really would expect bdnews to understand that - but they are so keen to butter up the government, they have lost their direction on so many of their stories.
http://bdnews24.com/
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