Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said through Twitter that the government was mulling legal action against the misreporting by the media, and that the A-G has been instructed to begin compiling necessary details before determining the next course of action.
"The cabinet has instructed the A-G to compile evidence and advice," Hishammuddin said in his tweet yesterday.Misreporting has been the 'selling criteria' for some local and foreign media, thus creating discomfort and confusion among many Malaysians and foreigners over the issue of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
He was referring to a local daily report which quoted him as saying that the government "should sue" media outlets for "false reports".
"We have been compiling all the false reports since Day 1. When the time is right, the government should sue them," he said when quoted by the daily.
The daily quoted Hishammuddin as saying that the government has been transparent throughout the search for the plane which disappeared on March 8.
"The Malaysian government has nothing to hide and I believe the truth will prevail," he said.
Some newspapers also spin stories that the passengers were 'safe and sound' while not few said the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.
Hisham's warning is not the only one. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar regrets that there are still certain parties who continue to speculate the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 even to the point of tarnishing the name of pilot, Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah's family.
He said the speculations would not only embarrass the family but could also jeopardise investigations into the incident.
"There are too many speculations so we have to be very careful when we read. Even his daughter has denied, yet there are media (foreign) who are unethical and intentionally write things which are not correct.
"If there was anything I will make an announcement, but we have to understand that this is being investigated and we are afraid that it could jeopardise our investigation," he told reporters after launching the Life-long Health Carnival With Royal Malaysian Police Leadership at the Kelantan Police Contingent Headquarters, in Kota Baru today.
Yesterday, Capt Zaharie's daughter, Aishah slammed the report by UK newspaper The Daily Mail which claimed that her father was emotionally disturbed several weeks before the tragedy.
Flight MH370, with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, went missing on March 8 about an hour after departing the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41am.