By Hummingbird
The allocation of RM6.85 billion for the Prime Minister’s Department under the 2014 Budget is highly questionable.
The most mysterious of the five items listed in the allocation is something referred to as ‘Dana Fasilitasi’ or Facilitation Fund.
The amount allocated to ‘Dana Fasilitasi’ is RM4 billion.
According to an extremely reliable source, prior to the 2014 Budget, the Prime Minister’s Department has been funding various news portals with the intention to subliminally or blatantly disseminate pro-BN propaganda.
Among the news portals involved is Malaysian Digest when it is said to receive a monthly aid of RM200,000 from the Prime Minister’s Department.
Coincidentally the person in-charge of running Malaysian Digest is Onn Hafiz Ghazi who happens to be Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein Onn’s nephew. Onn Hafiz is one of the recently elected Umno Youth exco members.
This is a clear reason as to why we need more alternative news portals since Umno is going all out to ‘buy out’ the existing ones.
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Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
November 18, 2013
Hummingbird,
It is to be expected that UMNO/BN will want to take the war into cyberspace. They have not exactly been very effective with it thus far.
I predict that even if UMNO/BN throw more money at pro-UMNO/BN news portals and bloggers, they will still have great difficulties winning the hearts and minds of Malaysians.
Why?
It is analogous to one giving a handful of RM100 notes to a monkey and expecting the monkey to perform a waltz when the organ grinder plays Strauss’s “Blue Danube” or any other waltz.
A monkey does not understand the value of money and a monkey certainly has no idea what a waltz is.
shakuntala
November 18, 2013
If Onn Hafiz Ghazi is receiving this sum on behalf of his Malaysian Digest he had better come clear, because journalism is all about thinking, speaking and writing the Truth.
If journalism allows itself to be bought over, then we can dare say that the Malaysian Digest must be a whole load of cod;s wallop, only fit as a stink, for flushing into the toilet and not a means to inform and enlighten minds.
bigjoe99
November 19, 2013
What is the Malaysian Digest? Hee Hee..