A battle of the media houses has begun as the punch newspaper has served a per-action notice on contemporaries, vanguard, the sun and This day newspapers.
Reports says the bone of contention is a series of fake advertorials, purporting to be on the cover of Punch, which were published by the offending newspapers.
It was discovered that the adverts were created by a group known as “Agents for Collective Transparency” which is against President Goodluck Jonathan.
The group manipulated the anti-Jonathan ads to make them look like they were on the cover of The Punch and subsequently gave them to the 3 affected newspapers who published them.
The Punch has stated that the advertorials have a negative impact on its reputation and it is giving the erring newspapers a period of 5 days to either issue a public apology, which would also be published in their respective papers, or face litigation. There has been no reaction from any of the affected newspapers.
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