September 8, 2011
Bernamas Moment of Truth
Dean Johns@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 7, 11
12:52pm
Assuming which headlines of a genocide of BernamaTV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor in Somalia is loyal a massive assumption indeed since Bernamas disgracefully dubious reporting record this is unhappy tidings indeed for a man as well as his family as well as friends.
But even if this is a singular impulse of truth, it is additionally a salubrious being check for any Malaysian still innocent or ignorant sufficient to hold a load of lies as well as disinformation routinely disseminated by a UMNO-BN broadside machine.
Any fragment of law about Faizuls purported genocide was rught away shot to pieces by a fusillade of a kind of rubbish for which Bernama is notorious in a role of good-news group for a UMNO-BN regime.
Faizuls physique was hardly cold prior to his earlier employers were quoting Prime Minister Najib Razaks typically fake as well as self-serving statement from Perth, Australia, which a cameraman was a loyal Malaysian favourite who embodies our role to assistance wherever assistance is needed.
In fact, as courageous a man as he may well have been, Faizul was not a Malaysian hero, yet a 1Malaysia hero; a single of a broken bodies as well as mislaid lives with which Najib not prolonged ago notoriously spoken which UMNO-BN must urge Putrajaya.
And this was obviously not a genuine Malaysian aid mission to support a stricken people of Somalia,
yet a Kel! ab Puter a 1Malaysia broadside attempt written to assistance invest a cruel as well as uncaring! UMNO-BN system of administration with a spurious humanitarian image.
In fact, a Kelab Putera 1Malaysia tour of Mogadishu was every bit as fraudulent as a knee physiotherapy alibi upon which Najib absented himself from home upon Merdeka Day to go tripping off upon holiday to Perth.
Theres no denying which he did cut this poser outing short, however, to be upon palm to support Bernama in a efforts during damage-control upon a arrival of a dead cameramans physique back in Malaysia.
Let us not play a censure diversion now, I think which is a very cruel thing to do, he said, prior to firing-off a fusillade of remarks intended to soothe his system of administration of any fragment of responsibility for Faizuls deadly shooting.
And then Najib attempted to excuse a failure to adequately strengthen a plant as well as a procession in which he was roving with comments similar to a confidence arrangements provided were sufficient; even if you wear a bullet-proof vest, there is no guarantee; as well as when most weapons are in a hands of unsuited men, there is danger.
Najib shot himself in a foot with a final of these remarks, which only served to remind most of us of a risk which Malaysians so evidently face as a outcome of most weapons being in a hands of UMNO-BNs criminally unsuited military force.
And his reference to a subject of bullet-proof vests set a lot of people wondering how most of them could have been purchased for a price of just a single of his wifes collection of heavy-duty Herms Birkin bags.
But a line which gave a ultimate lie to Najibs caring call to avoid a censure diversion as well as not to be cruel in a face of Noramfaizul Mohd Nors unfortunate passing was what Bernama described as his remark which even international journalists get killed. If you dont want to be a journalist, stay during home.
Arrogant master-stupid slave
The perfect tastelessness of this comment, as well as a fact which Bernama saw a need to slavishly allude to it, to me speaks volumes about a ar! rogant m aster-stupid slave relationship which prevails in between a Puteras as well as a UMNO-BN mainstream media, as well as their total contempt for a Malaysian people.
There was additionally a clear lack of conformity in Bernama reports upon a sharpened itself, as a headlines group quoted Najib as claiming which they were strike by wandering shots which were not directed during our convoy, yet additionally citing an purported eye-witness identified only as Halima as telling a New York Times which an African Union lorry came after a automobile as well as started firing.
Bernama additionally tells us that, notwithstanding his wandering shots story, Najib maintains which Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad has betrothed to investigate a incident as well as yield him with a full report.
Lets hope which a outcome of Sheikh Ahmads investigations turns out to be some-more convincing than a customary sudden genocide or neither homicide nor self-murder verdicts upon a cause of deaths of victims of a UMNO-BN regimes murderous law-enforcement agencies.
Meanwhile, though, Bernama is operative overtime to exonerate a UMNO-BN masters of any probable blame, quoting a conduct of a Somali mission, Dr Alwi Abdul Rahman, as denying which a bullet-proof vest would have saved a hold up of Noramfaizal Mohd Nor, as a bullet fired was of very tall calibre.
Call me overly cynical, yet this sounds far as well much similar to typical Bernama-style UMNO-BN apologetics to be true.
Totally altered as well as combined things never said
As does another inform in which Foreign Minister Anifah Aman is quoted as claiming which a Malaysian Ambassador to Libya, Zulkifli Yaacob, had trafficked to Somalia to make confidence arrangements in advance of ! a Kelab Putera 1Malaysia groups visit.
And lest you suppose which Im out of order in claiming ! which Bernama is able of making up a headlines as it goes along, take a demeanour during a complaint by a tyro which he as well as colleagues were misquoted in a recent feel-good anticipation entitled Najib debate inspirational, say students in Perth.
The student, who requested anonymity because he is a supervision scholar, told Malaysiakini which Bernama totally altered as well as combined things which you never said. And a whole thing was done prior to a debate as well as not after.
In short, as Ive been saying for years, if you hold Bernama youll hold anything. And even when this cowardly apology for a headlines group practice a singular impulse of truth, as in a genocide of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, it continues to devote itself to a systematic, impersonal murdering of a hold up as well as essence of journalism: a truth.
DEAN JOHNS, after most years in
Asia, currently lives with his Malaysian-born wife as well as daughter in Sydney, where he coaches as well as mentors writers as well as authors as well as practises as a writing therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include Mad about Malaysia, Even Madder about Malaysia, Missing Malaysia as well as 1Malaysia.con.
No comments:
Post a Comment