Think back to last Monday and try to recall what was the biggest news item.
20,000 in Kampung Baru to witness the expiry of Anwar’s bar from participation in mainstream politics and his announcement of his future plans.
Did anything bigger than this take place in KL last Monday?
I don’t think so.
See Malaysiakini’s reports of this HERE and HERE
For reports in blogosphere, I’ve already referred to Tony’s.
Zorro has also given a pretty good write-up.
The Star?
Yesterday, buried in one of the later pages was an insipid report. Read HERE
How many of you paid RM1.20 yesterday for the rubbish that Wong thought was worthy of your attention?
Posted in: Boycott the newspapers
The People's Parliament 
Singam
April 16, 2008
Haris, thank you. I searched but could find nothing about the event. Not in Star Online and not in the hard copy.
But they had no difficulty with a headline suggesting that the 4 PKR leaders had submitted to police questioning HERE.
Do they still expect their readers to miss the gap in the news?
peng
April 16, 2008
Nope. I don’t pay to read the ‘government-owned’ newspapers (a term borrowed from RPK). I subscribe to blogs to get my daily dose of what’s happening. And when I do skimp through the ‘government-owned’ newspapers, it’s usually from copies in the office, just to see how far they would go to hoodwink readers with their spin. The only thing I find useful in these newspapers is to line my pet dog’s toilet.
peng,
Animal cruelty! Don’t subject the poor dog to such rubbish!
Kevin
April 16, 2008
I stopped paying Haris! Thanks to you! Eh… and you are still paying??? gee….
Kevin,
Reading online, lah
peng
April 16, 2008
Ha! Ha! Haris you got me spot on! Come to think of it, it’s no wonder why Missy (my dog) constipate once too often. Thanks for highlighting. Will do the necessary.
UMNO member
April 16, 2008
I have resolved not to read anything a spineless E-diot who sold his soul touched 2 months ago. The E-diot’s face makes me puke. So far I did not missed anything.
Paul Warren
April 16, 2008
Well, if Wong Chun Wai has previously not been challenged, he now has by the NST. NST has on its headline today told Abdullah…o.k. we support you , now go on with the job of Premiership.
Will The Star be prepared to say the same?
I am sure Wong reds Utusan Melayu and all the spinning and aggravation that is being spun in that horror of papers. Challenge it man, if you got it in you to do it!
Kim
April 16, 2008
Yes you are right Haris.
Did you read the NST today? I personally think that NST is now being used to indirectly tell UMNO to stop bitching around and forcing the PM to resign.
The media is no longer news but a tool for political maneuvering by people in control. We have to pay RM1.20 for this?
Kim
Kim,
Don’t pay. Read online to know the rubbish that’s being put out for mass consumption.
deekay
April 16, 2008
After few months of boycotting MSM, today I broke it by buying my first NST. RM1.20 just to read the frontpage whacking of UMNO by the editors of NST. I don’t know what got in to them or is there a political motive for the editorial to appear in frontpage but I enjoyed reading it.
I read it online but just want to catch hold of the printcopy to cherish it cause it may just be an one-off thing.
deekay,
Yes this morning’s NST frontpage was a good read especially the bollocking that kerismuddin got.
However, I think it was really about trying to save the PM’s butt!
donplaypuks
April 16, 2008
Once he got his datoship, WCW has become nothing more than an apologist for BN, presumably aiming for a Tan Sri.
So, I pay no attention to what’s been said or not said in the NST or STAR. can you imagine that they have not carried the hoo hah about Crown Prince Petra’s racist speech.
This is what happens when newspapers do not report the news as it occurs, but become selective and always look for a postive spin for BN and a negative one for PR.
In other words they are not even good enough to be used as toilet paper. NST & STAR are not fit to call themselves newspapers and their staff, journalists!!
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
April 16, 2008
Haris,
section 4(1) of the Printing Presses And Publications Act stipulates:
“Any person who prints or produces, or causes or permits to be printed or produced by his printing press or machine any publication or document:-
(a) which is obscene or otherwise against public decency; or
(b) which contains an incitement to violence against persons or property, counsels disobedience to the law or to any lawful order or which is or is likely to lead to a breach of the peace or to promote feelings of ill-will, hostility, enmity, hatred, disharmony or disunity,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to both.”
Some of the material that we have to read on MSM is nauseating and makes me otherwise feel ill; some of it is obscenely skewed, I am wondering whether a police report should be lodged.
Jokes aside, in some instances uneven or skewed coverage has led to the establishment of polarizing points by which sections of the community have organised themselves,sometimes potentially dangerously. Perhaps it is time for a police report and a complaint and perhaps judicial review from thereon. It will be interesting to see how the courts deal with the breach of natural justice argument i.e. that the Minister is a member of a political party with known links to the company that owns the newspaper and is as such not in any position to make any fair and impartial decision with regard the conduct of the said newspaper.
MIS
Imtiaz,
Am in full agreement.
Any takers to step forward and lodge the requisite police reports?
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
April 16, 2008
I meant to add:
the political party being a member of a coalition which has known links. And whatever the case, there will be a perception that fairness is not achievable.
You know what I mean.
MIS
UMNO member
April 16, 2008
To Paul Warren – The spineless E-diot has no balls lah. Cannot even stand straight, how to challange other people.
garfield city
April 16, 2008
Am I right or am I wrong?
Everywhere, where newspapers are sold….
I see heaps of them unsold…
Sathiyabama Selvaratnam (SaiSel - pen name)
April 16, 2008
All of these UMNOPutras who at the time of the reign of the then Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir are the the same people that act as the poison ivy to Abdullah Badawi. can these UMNOPutras get into their mediocre thinking minds that they caused the failings of the government not Abdullah Badawi.
All the number crunchers in UMNO seem to weild power by the shere numbers that can muster with their ill gotten gains over the Mahathir years. You failed UMNO. You failed Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Stop blaming the Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. I do agree that he is not a perfect human being or a ruthless politician. This Prime Minister was lumbered with people like you who condemn him now.
The freedom that you now use to jab the PM was provided to you by this PM and what do you do; spite the man who gave you a degree of freedom to express yourself.
You UMNOPutras failed the party. You UMNOPutras failed the Barisan Nasional. You UMNOPutras failed the nation by your excesses and greed. Your present cry is yet again revive the Mahathir years wherein you spent as much time soliciting favours at the expense of other deserving Malays and Malaysians.
How dare you now, pontificate when you did not have a moral fibre in you to stand up to the excesses of the man who bauilt this nation whilst destroying human morality.
Go wash your mouths. Do some soul searching if you have one.
shar101
April 16, 2008
Haris,
Yer throwing us another ‘curve ball’, bro?
Some of us are still recovering from your ‘what’s said, not written’ and ‘Oh yeah, it’s written and said’ by the likes of the royal twit.
Yesterday was ‘PFT’, ain’t it. (And I hope Singam read a ‘borrowed’ hardcopy).
Perhaps, WCW is so utterly confused with instructions from command central that he’d rather stick it to AAB’s……….. ‘Smooth transition’.
‘Nawt my kinda paper’
max
April 16, 2008
Well, I don’t even bother to buy Star anymore, except when i’m bored for entertainment news (even then, i surf on the net). Of course, i buy Star on Sat & Sun for the entertainment news only, and what’s on sale!
For news – Local (Malaysiakini, Malaysia Today), International (BBC, CNN).
David Lim
April 16, 2008
WHEN you are an employee and wanting to climb the corporate ladder, one had to ‘more’ to please your big bosses in MCA and also UMNO too.
Maybe, he is keen to be the Managing Director to Steven Tan who is due for retirement very soon.
It is pointless to tell him off but he is under a lot of obligation to perform and surely he is doing a great job, according to his bosses and the government. Otherwise, their licence may not be renewed man.
Happy writing with the Star.
David
Kevin
April 17, 2008
Ahhh… I read online too… and I do grab a free copy of the sun just to hold something tangible.
What I meant to say was, I did not read Makkal Osai coz I cannot understand Tamil but from what my Malaysian friends who do, they did say Osai is about the fairest in reporting. Hence, we all know you will be punished for being fair in Malaysia by the government. Even after the beating of 8/03 they still do not realize their folly. I guess, its high time to take the “No more Nonsense from MSM” a notch higher dont u think Haris?
Free Malaysia
April 17, 2008
Wong Chun Wai is a running dog of UMNO-BN. The man, despite his Datuk title and all is nothing but a sell-out. He is a disgrace.
yh
April 17, 2008
the chameleon, which is the chief editor, can even sing a variety fo songs to suit the occassions. what do you call them? HYPOCRITES, i think and these sort of people are abhorred in the scriptures.
by the way, nope, i dont waste my RM1.2 for the newsletter which often spews lies. better spend it on a cup of coffee.
Scott Thong
April 17, 2008
You’ve seen the photos yourselves, yes?
27th poster from top, enjoy.
Malaysian Politics Motivational Posters
Excellent
Scott Thong
April 17, 2008
Thank you, Sir Haris! Your remarkz pleezes Scotkitteh.