Yesterday, a little after 3pm, some 300 or so Indian anak anak Bangsa Malaysia converged at the PKR headquarters to refute reports in the mainstream media that the Indian community was going to revolt against PKR and the Pakatan coalition.
Why was there a need for this show of support by the Indians?
Well for the last week or so, we have been feted in the MSM to a slew of reports that would have us believe that the Indian leaders in PKR, in particular, and in Pakatan, generally, have had it up to their eyeballs with the marginalisation of the Indians by the Pakatan coalition. In fact some of the reports give the impression that the Indian community, in general, have become disillusioned with PKR and Pakatan.
MSM have set out to portray Pakatan as slowly but surely disintegrating.
Take the report in the NST yesterday, that DAP’s Ipoh Barat MP Kulasegeran was going to resign as Ipoh city councillor as “he felt that he could not serve effectively the people in his “lowly” position as councillor”.
The news report quoted a source as saying that “Kulasegaran’s decision was because of a power play in DAP” and went on to observe that “It is another blow to the credibility of the Pakatan Rakyat state government, which is facing a “revolt” from certain Parti Keadilan Rakyat elected representatives, who defied a directive against holding elections for village chiefs. The brewing political storm in Perak comes in the wake of the war of words between Kapar member of parliament S. Manikavasagam and Klang member of parliament Char-les Santiago with the Selangor assembly speaker Teng Chang Khim over the relocation of the Klang bus station to Meru”.
I tried calling Kula yesterday to get clarification but could not get him, so I called YB Sivanesan instead. Siva said that the report yesterday was a pack of lies.
Friday evening I caught up with Kapar MP, YB Manikavasagam for tea in Brickfields to get his side of the numerous stories that have been tossed at us through the MSM of his alleged disgruntlement with PKR and the Selangor state government, allegedly on grounds that the Indians are being marginalised, both by the party and the state government.
I came away from that meeting with the impression that this first time elected rep genuinely felt that he was not getting the support he needed from the state government or the party to assist him in doing what he sincerely believes needs to be done for the people of his constituency.
True or not, that’s something for him to work out with the party and the MB.
What did not come across was a complaint of marginalisation of Indians by party or the state government.
So how did that impression come to be conveyed through MSM?
Are there individuals out there, within the party as well as on the outside, who are looking to make capital of what really is, as I see it, no more than teething problems that a party first time in governance is encountering?
I think so.
NST’s report today quoting MCA youth chief Wee Ka Siong that the “in-fighting among PR components as well as recent statements by Pas on implementing hudud laws and setting up of an Islamic country would scare away the young non-Muslim community” in relation to the impending Kuala Terengganu by-election lays bare where the MSM will be going with their reporting in the next two weeks.
It also spells out the work that is cut out for all of us who want to see Kuala Terengganu delivered to Pakatan Rakyat on 17th January.
Yup, it’s boycott the MSM time again!
The People's Parliament 
Hartalmsm
January 4, 2009
Lim Kit Siang says: ‘Shame on you, Star’
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“Star, on page N6, gave half a page to the statement by MCA President, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Kiat with the headline: “DAP advised to boycott polls – Ong tells party to prove it opposes hudud”.
But it blacked out my reply to Ong. Not a word at all.
Shame on you Star, which claims to be “The people’s paper”!”
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/12/27/shame-on-you-star/
yh
January 4, 2009
the last MSM boycott initiative was met with rather muted response. this has embolden them to revert to their old ways of serving their political masters. the recent change of guards at the board of directors of STAR is concrete evidence that the hawks are back to direct the campaign against PR.
maybe, you need the newspaper vendors to unite against the spin doctors. if they come aboard the ship, the spinners will urinate in their pants for sure. how about no STAR paper delivery for one week, eh?
sactyr
January 4, 2009
“maybe, you need the newspaper vendors to unite against the spin doctors.”
Dear yh,
As much as I hate the MSM, it is the only source of income for these newspaper vendors. Sure, they may not like distributing papers filled with filth, but it is their occupation none-the-less.
Perhaps when we have more printed “alternative” media, we would be able to persuade these news vendors to stop distributing the filthy ones.
storm62
January 4, 2009
Yes, we can! bro haris.
like we Penangites have boycotted the Shell station in Jalan Mesjid Negeri which was owned by racist Ahmad Ismail, i’m sure we can all boycott the MSM this time.
with the People’s Power, we can teach them a good lesson and humbled down this so called People’s Daily.
i can still remember how we smokers in Penang boycott Benson & Hedges and smoke Dunhill instead in the late 70s.
boycott, yes we can!
Samuel Goh Kim Eng
January 4, 2009
LEARN HOW TO TAME POLITICAL GAMES
While politicians play their political games
Let’s find the best means of their channels to tame
Knowing too well how convenient their opponents to blame
Remember how it was like in the Internet for all ‘to flame’
(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng – 040109
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Sun. 4th Jan. 2009.
We Care
January 4, 2009
I was correct it was actually a MSM Media Spin .
yh
January 4, 2009
sactyr,
you have a point there. but there’s no free lunch and if malaysians want to be free from the evil grips of UMNO, then some sacrifices are needed. any other ideas apart from spreading message thru alternatice media? my mind is open.
ruzaimiramza
January 4, 2009
tell me this is a lie.. from not a MSM..
ruzaimiramza
January 4, 2009
sorry forgot to include the link
bayi
January 4, 2009
For real change to take place, we need to deliver the federal government to Barisan Rakyat!
ttc
January 5, 2009
sactyr says here to yh:
As much as I hate the MSM, it is the only source of income for these newspaper vendors. Sure, they may not like distributing papers filled with filth, but it is their occupation none-the-less.
John Stuart Mills says to all:
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
WE SAY YEAH! 🙂 AND HARIS FOR AG & RPK FOR IGP! GO FOR DSAI FOR PM & LKS FOR DPM & KIND WAN AZIZAH FOR HOME MINISTER.
New 2009 Resolution: Seek out all garbage and recycle or dispose post haste.
wira
January 5, 2009
Malaysia today is now down and inaccessible.
Perhaps the MSM sponsors are fighting back.
temenggong
January 5, 2009
“tell me this is a lie.. from not a MSM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CkY_mQuW0&feature=channel_page ”
No it is not. These are valid grievances of the people of Kapar, raised by their MP, and not properly addressed by the Selangor govt. Khalid better address these issues in a blitz or else it will explode.
This is the trouble one gets by having a truly committed MP who genuinely works to resolve the communities issues.
joolee
January 5, 2009
we haven’t purchased a star or nst newspaper in over a year so we’ve been pretty ignorant of what the spins have been. evidently, the msm boycott hasn’t worked too well. i think we seriously have to look at boycotting the advertisers.
on a brighter note, i notice that advertisers have actually started advertising online – malaysia today and malaysiakini both have more advertisers. how can we leverage on this trend?
Thinking Cap
January 5, 2009
I APPEAL TO EVERY MEMBER WHO READ THIS,THAT THEY SHOULD CONTINUOUSLY INFORM THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A PC AND INTERNET THE TRUTH AND THAT MOST OF THE NEWS IN THE MSM ARE TWISTED AND ARE LIES.BOYCOTTING THE MSM IS ONLY MARGINALLY POSSIBLE, BECAUSE THE OLDER FOLKS ARE QUITE ADDICTED TO READING NEWSPAPERS. ONE CAN SEE HOW NEWER ISSUES SUCH AS THE USE OF ENGLISH, THE PRACTICE OF YOGA HAS SURFACED WHILE THE MEDIA HAD CLEVERLY DOWNPLAYED THE ALTANTUYA MURDER SAGA.
Estrelita Soliano Grosse
January 5, 2009
We have to do more than boycott the MSM. We have to talk to those who don’t know well enough to boycott the MSM and we have to take the time to tell them about what we read on the internet and spread the truth by word of mouth!!