The press needs to step up the fight against erroneous views.

(Baonghean.vn) - The Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee requested that press agencies closely follow the content of propaganda orientation, accurately and fully reflect practical socio-economic issues of the locality, and at the same time strengthen the fight against distorted arguments and false information.

On the morning of August 8, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department held a regular press conference for July 2016.

Comrades Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department, Nguyen Ba Hao - Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications co-chaired the conference. Attending were representatives of press agencies in the province.

The comrades chaired the conference.

In July, press agencies have properly implemented the propaganda orientation, reflecting relatively fully and promptly political, economic, cultural and social events; fully informing important domestic and foreign activities of Party and State leaders; policies and directives of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, People's Council and departments, branches and localities.

Accordingly, the outstanding activities that were reflected were: the first session of the 14th National Assembly; provincial People's Council delegates meeting voters in localities; the second session of the 17th provincial People's Council; commemorating the 86th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27; promoting Party building work; outstanding results in the province's socio-economic situation in the first 7 months of the year; encouraging emulation movements in labor and production, etc.

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department oriented propaganda work in August 2016.

In addition, newspapers and radio stations have also focused on clearly reflecting the problems that have arisen and existed in the province in recent times, such as: warnings about illegal exploitation of forest products; shortcomings in rural power grid management; issues of ensuring fire safety at markets; unsafety at ferry terminals and swimming pools in the area, etc.

In August 2016, the press agencies continued to disseminate and widely propagate the Resolution and action program to implement the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress; reflect the exciting atmosphere in localities in implementing the resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels into real life; propagate the results of the 2nd session of the Provincial People's Council for the 2016-2021 term and the mid-year session of the People's Councils at the district and commune levels, focusing on propagating newly approved decisions.

Comrade Ho Thi Ngan - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper said that it is necessary to control information more strictly to avoid the current situation of widespread and multi-dimensional information.

Press agencies need to step up propaganda on site clearance to implement key projects, build new rural areas, eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, promote affirmation of sea and island sovereignty, develop the sea, encourage fishermen to go out to sea, and at the same time fight and refute distorted and hostile arguments on the Internet.

Nghe An press has recently been actively promoting marine environmental issues. In the photo: Taking seawater samples in Cua Lo Town.

In addition, it is necessary to actively promote major events and holidays such as the 71st anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2, the 86th anniversary of the Nghe Tinh Soviet, the 114th birthday of General Secretary Le Hong Phong, etc.

At the meeting, there were many comments and contributions from representatives of press agencies in the province about press activities in the past time. The opinions basically agreed with the summary report of press activities in the province in July 2016.

Comrade Tran Duy Ngoan - Chairman of the Provincial Journalists Association said that websites need to censor information more carefully.

Some other issues discussed by delegates include: the need to control information more strictly, avoiding the current situation of widespread, multi-dimensional information, causing people to be "interfered" with information; electronic pages when posting information need to assess and censor more carefully; the role of state management in information needs to actively intervene, strictly handle the situation of copyright information theft, strengthen propaganda to orient public opinion, fight against reactionary and opportunistic information flows, etc.

Conference overview.

Concluding the Conference, Comrade Ho Phuc Hop - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department highly appreciated the contributions of local press agencies in propagating according to the direction of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; actively and promptly reflecting hot issues and major events of the province and the country.

He also requested that press agencies closely follow the propaganda orientation in August; accurately and fully reflect practical socio-economic issues of the locality, while strengthening the fight against distorted arguments and false information.

Phuong Thao