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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The Heads of the daily newspapers confirmed importance of transparency in the media, stressing it is a matter beyond the press to affect the entire community.

Editors stressed during a seminar hosted by the Jordanian Association of transparency on Saturday afternoon in Amman Chamber of Industry on the need for an amendment to the Law on the right of access to information

Chief editor of the daily newspaper AlRai Samir Hiyari pointed out that the "culture of cover-up" exist in the media, noting that the ownership of social security in the ownership of real newspapers.

Chief editor of daily newspaper Addustour Mohammed Tall "we are still spin in the press and media with little transparency and a lot of courtesy."

Chief editor of Alarab alyawm daily Osama al-Rantissi, "the official media and semi-formal, independent and non-independent concern in the case of the decline does not carry any ambitions safe and bleeding."

Chief Executive of the Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists Nidal Mansour moderator pointed out that people got used to that media wondering and watching and chasing and criticize, and follow the details, whether in the government or parliament or civil society, and the role assigned to him, but at the same time no one says what are the obligations the media? Could it be in isolation from the social control?

The head of Transparency Society Jordanian minister and former MP Dr Mamdouh Abbadi, when it passed the law the right of access to information (The law not right of access to information).