INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shafaq News/ The head of the State of Law bloc, Nouri al-Maliki, urged the Iraqi Media Network to "reconsider its discourse", applauding the
measures the Iraqi judiciary took against the "offender".Last week, the Iraqi judiciary issued an arrest warrant against media person Sarmad
al-Taie for "tarnishing the Judicial institution" in a talk show on the Iraqi state tv channel
Iraq's state media network banned al-Taie from appearing or making statements to its media outlets and shows
Moreover, the network opted to halt "The Neutral" talk show presented by Saadoun Dhamd on the Iraqi government tv channel
"The Iraqi media is too large to be affected by an insult from an adventurous mediaperson
The revered clerics, Iraqi judiciary, and political forces are superior to this mischievous insult," he tweeted.Al-Maliki praised the Iraqi
judiciary's measures against al-Taie, whom he ascribed as an "offender"
The lawmaker urged the Iraqi Media Network to "reconsider its discourse that does not represent all the Iraqis and does not defend its
institutions anymore," and "recommit the principles it was stands upon: the state and impartiality."
