Saer is one of the few Bangladeshi journalists who has a wikipedia page. He is a journalist for Aljazeera and several western media outlets have published his pieces. So, he has credentials which are unparalleled among Bangladeshi journalists. 

Since he is working for Aljazeera, an established news outlet, you would have thought that he is a journalist who maintains professionalism when he publishes anything anywhere. But one troubling aspect of the journalism of Saer is that he just publishes his reports without either seeking comment from the accused/the person affected by the reports or failing to mention that he sought comments from those people. 

Recently he bylined a report along with another reporter on the Manab Zamin, alleging that eight Bangladeshi families have kept 3600 crores Taka in Swiss banks, an apparent violation of Bangladesh strict foreign exchange laws. As you can imagine, there is no mention of any comment from those eight families - whether they refuse to comment or Saer failed to reach them for comment.   

Few days back he published another report on Bangla Outlook, a US based media focusing on Bangladesh. He alleges that despite Hasina’s permission, DGFI balked at allowing Indian intelligence to monitor Bangladesh’s telecom communications. Again, there is no mention of any attempt to reach out to Hasina, DGFI or Indian government for their comment on the report. 

If you read the reports done by Saer, specially those published by local Bangladeshi news outlets, you will find that in almost all cases, he failed to mention the comment by the person affected by his reporting. In most cases, he did not even mention whether he tried to get a comment from those people. Basically this is a feature, not a bug in the reporting of Saer. 

I am not a journalist. From what I have read, my understanding is that the “right to reply” is a basic feature in any reporting done by any news media. Yet, Saer, who is working for Aljazeera, failed to do so on a constant basis. It seems like despite working for renewed news organisations, Saer failed to learn the basics of journalism.