A proof-reader at the Borneo Post, Sarawak’s leading English-language newspaper, has been sacked because he corrected a “spelling mistake”. And instead of publicising the web address of a sponsored pro-Taib Mahmud web site, the newspaper’s “corrected” article ended up promoting Sarawak Report, the whistleblowing site which has carried dozens of exposés of the Sarawak chief minister and his family.
Sarawak Report said on Saturday that the proof-reader’s sacking on Friday came after “a directive on this had come straight from the office of the Chief Minister”.
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