Lashes out at section of media for spreading fake news
Srinagar, May 2: Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday lashed out at a section of media that spreads ‘source based fake news as the gospel truth’ and later hope that people forget about it when it doesn’t happen.
His comments come against the backdrop of news circulated last month that ‘the NC Vice President’s visit to New Delhi on May 26 was linked to reported move for the formation of an Advisory Council which may be headed by Altaf Bukhari, chief of Apni Party set up in March’.
Omar, who was detained in Srinagar for about eight months post abrogation of special status of J&K on August 5, said he could write a small book on the fake news planted and happily reproduced while he was lodged in Hari Niwas.
“What happened to the grand oath taking that we were promised would happen in Jammu today? “Sources” plant, journalists happily reproduce as though the gospel truth & when it doesn’t happen all of them hope we’ve forgotten what was tweeted/reported. #FakeNews,” he wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
“I could write a small book on the fake news planted & happily reproduced while I was detained in Hari Niwas starting with the fight I’m supposed to have had with @MehboobaMufti, the flight to Delhi we were supposed to have been taken on and so on & so forth. #FakeNews,” he added.
