These days, when media is more a public facade of a shrewd business house, blogs have jumped in to fill the void created by media abstinence of business unfriendly news items.
One such business unfriendly news item was the recent incidence involving CTG advisor, business leader Geeteara Safiya Choudhury’s husband and her business house. Writing on this topic puts this blogger in a difficult situation as the persons at the center of this controversy; Mrs. Geeteara Safiya Choudhury and Mr. Nazim Kamran Chowdhury are the parents of fellow blogger and friend Nazim Farhan Chowdhury. But when the evidence gets clearer that there have been attempts from the more powerful side of the conflict to influence/ silence the media, it naturally becomes the responsibility of the bloggers to tell or analyze the story. When conventional media fails to outweigh any friendly influence, a blogger would do injustice to his/her readers if he/she falls through same crack in ethics the conventional media happily fell.
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