Guan Eng May Bar NST From Covering Functions

PENANG, March 14 (Bernama) -- Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he would consider barring New Straits Times from covering his press conferences or functions in response to articles in the newspaper which he alleged were slanderous and false.
He said he was willing to accept criticisms but not statements with elements of slander and certain agenda intended to disparage him and the state government.
"In the last election they also write very bad about us, we also take it.
"With or without NST we survive all the time. We urged the people of Penang, if they want to read the truth about Penang don't buy NST," he told reporters after visiting the Relau Community Park here today.
Lim made these remarks when asked to comment on an article in the NST yesterday entitled "What your beef, Guan Eng?" which criticised him for his preferential treatment to the media.
The article was apparently a follow up to another piece a week earlier entitled "Guan Eng trait that's difficult to swallow" on the same issue.

tunku : if they write very bad about you, so what.it's true, if not true why don't you sue them? why stopping them covering your function. where is the so called transperancy, freedom championed by dap? where is the so called "CAT" government of penang? it's all rhetoric. guan eng only like good and juicy news about him, whatever not favouring him,he gets angry and bar them.what a coward cm.go and cling on your mother's apron or cry to papa kit siang.