The Punch newspaper has threatened to sue Vanguard newspaper, the SUN and Thisday over a phony advertorial published on different days by the newspapers.
Punch has given the newspapers 5 days to tender a public apology and publish it prominently on their respective newspapers or face litigation.
Here's the genesis of the issue: A faceless group referred to as'Agents for Collective Transparency", an anti-Jonathan group, photoshopped the cover pages of Punch newspapers and put copies of the pictures in advert form and gave Thisday, Sun & Vanguard to publish as advert, that the papers did.
Punch now says it's affected their integrity which is politically neutral. Also, the photoshopped headlines targeted against GEJ were never published in the actual Punch newspaper, they certainly were all fake stories. The affected newspapers are yet to react.
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