Teheran (ANTARA News) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denounced western media for often engaging inunhealthy journalistic practices and disseminating negative reports abouthimself and developing countries like Iran and Indonesia.

"They claim ro be independent, but they often see things from a different angle and agenda in their news reports. This is unhealthy journalistic practice as their news reportsoften put a negative stigma on us," he said in an interview with Antara journalist Ahmad Kusaini here on Wednesday.

Asked whether he felt disturbed and annoyed by the reports of western media, Ahmadinejad said the western media always tended to corner him and Iran.

The Iranian president, who is known as a leader who never hesitates to speak his mind against the United States, said that he didn't feel perturbed bythe reports of western media which often made him anobject of their criticism.

"I don't feel disturbed bythe reports of the western media which often see me in a negative light. But itwould make me sad if a good man like you disseminates negative reports on Iran," he said.

However, Western media and those in the Asia Pacific region, according to him, had a different perspective in choosing the angle of their reports and agenda of their coverage. Media in the Asia Pacific region tend to provide peaceful, cool reports and spread friendship to other part of the world.

Their accurate reports inspired journalists to have the idea in unitingnews dissemination, maintaining mutual respect among member countries which had come up as the character of media in developing countries.

In the meantime, western media often influenced by jewish perspectives had a tendency to disseminate prejudice and to have strategy to create negative perceptives on developing country, he said.

Ahmadinejad further said the western media often fabricatedsmall issues confronting developing countries like Indonesia and Iran, but they often ignoredbig issues happening in Palestine and in the United States itself.

For example, the issue of crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza was often diverted by western media by failing to saywho was cruel and who was good.

The western media intentionally distorted the facts by describingGaza residents as terrorists, while Israelis were porrayed as saviors of the free world, he said.

"This is something unfair," the Iranian president said.(*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono
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