December 25, 2011
Message for 2012 from a Grateful Blogger
I choose this square by my great friend, Karim Raslan to communicate a summary to you, all my blogging associates as good as friends, who for a many partial have provided utilitarian inputs of views as good as ideas upon this blog.
Because of your contributions, a blog now has some-more than 7 million hits (wordpress shows upon 2 million plus though inside their system, it is some-more than 3 times which figure) since you launched it in November, 2007.
Thank you unequivocally many for your seductiveness as good as support, though with which comes responsibility to be acceptable as good as offset (objective?) in what you put upon this blog, as good as in a comments you as good as you make. This blog is review around a world since you have been interconnected.
I am still unequivocally concerned about a peculiarity of sermon as good as a denunciation used is distant from satisfactory, nonetheless you acknowledge which you have done a little progress. It still pains me, however, to have to delete a little comments for "bad" language, name calling , rudeness, as good as sheer longhorn headedness.
Please recollect which a peculiarity of your thoughts as good as a approach you demonstrate yourself tell pick readers about a arrange of chairman you have been and, if you have been a Malaysian, you additionally create a negative impression of a people as a whole. Please, therefore, write with care as good as consideration.
I goal in 2012 when you can urge both peculiarity as good as content. you take pains to choose! stuff c arefully for this blog since you use them for conducting a kind of online convention or tutorialif you might be authorised to feel a little similar to a grouchy village propagandize teacher upon human affairs. The goal to inform a supervision as good as polite society organisations which you out in cyberspace wish great government, a single which must serve people (demos) as good as demonstrate a concerns when things have been "not right".
We might disagree (and you expect that) upon a issues, though all of us share a usual aspirationat slightest you consider so as good as which is you wish what is many appropriate for a country. After all, you have been a single People as good as a single Country with stakes in Malaysia's social, economic as good as political swell as good as egghead development. Karim says,"[T]he subsequent ubiquitous election will be a many critical polls we've had in decades as good as might good conclude a future.It's important, therefore, which you go in to them bargain what's during stake.Having explained because as good as how you write, you goal to be means to minister to this process." Let us try to do that. Din Merican
Why you write as good as how you write
by Karim Raslan (12-20-11)@www.thestar.com.my
CERITALAH
Mainstream media is locked in an endless cycle, a Groundhog Day of sorts, still shackled by decades-old regulations, even as a pick media entirely practice their scathing wit.
I STARTED essay this mainstay a little nineteen years ago: Yes, I've been around which long. For a little people, essay is only something they do; for me as a tukang cerita it's a necessity, something you have to do every day or else I'll go mad.
The early 1990s were an refreshing time. Kuala Lumpur was starting by a massive office building boom as good as everythi! ng as go od as anything seemed possible. While you relished a excitement of those years, you regretted as good as still do a many laws which limited what reporters as good as editors could write.
Nonetheless, you soon detected which there were ways to criticism upon a prohibited issues of a day 
without tedious my readers or incurring a rage of my editors as good as a authorities.The trick lay in essay around subjects similar to crime as good as abuse of power, for example, by sketch parallels with what was function elsewhere in a world only as you did last week with Vladimir Putin's Russia.
It's not direct though it's a approach of making your indicate by adding different layers of meaning.Indeed, many of my stating upon Indonesia over a past 10 years has unequivocally been directed during Malaysia, highlighting a differences as good as similarities in between a dual countries over critical issues such as competition as good as religion, polite liberties as good as democracy.
But essay in this demeanour additionally equates to which your essay character becomes somewhat exuberant since you can't essentially strike with a same liking as good as straightforwardness similar to say, Sakmongkol AK47, a former politician as good as blogger.
Still, you kept writing, as good as when 1996 came, you launched my initial Ceritalah book. Dipping in to a collection today, I'm struck by how many a mainstream media turf hasn't essentially changed.
While a Internet is bursting with headlines as good as views, a mainstream is still shackled by decades-old regulations. In short, we're locked in an endless cycle a Groundhog Day of sorts.
Ceritalah: Malaysia in Transition contained dual essays which summed up a frustr! ations y ou felt behind then, as good as still do today. In dual essays compiled in a book; The Ancient Art of Reading Between a Lines as good as The Art of Writing Between a Lines, you wrote about how Malaysians had become skilful in a face of all a controls upon their headlines as good as analyses during celebration of a mass with what you called "the third eye".
This equates to essentially detecting hidden messages as good as themes in differently harmless journal coverage. This, however, has done us utterly cynical.We're always upon a lookout for a "hidden hand" a dalang behind a theatre performance nonetheless some-more mostly than not there unequivocally isn't one.
As you wrote in a initial column: "This, then, is a problem with a third eye; it distorts a notice of a world it creates us consider everything in conditions of celebrity as good as clique We lend towards not to consider in conditions of beliefs since you have been always seeking for personal motives; a people who will benefit from any particular contract as good as by how many they will benefit."
Are things unequivocally any different now? Writing currently for a mainstream media still requires treading a fine, excellent line. Reading it, too, still requires a gift of a "third eye"; to cynically regard any square of headlines brought to us.
I can't help feeling which you seem to have gone nowhere, as good as in truth have been regressing as a neighbours as good as a world during large have fake ahead. Indeed, a advent of a Internet has done lives of mainstream media reporters all a some-more difficult.
It's painful to have your work so unequivocally unerring when your online media counterparts have been authorised to entirely practice their scathing quick thoughts generally when some-more mostly than not you determine with them. Let me contend here which many mainstream journal editors as good as writers have been against to a kind of censorship as good as control as practised i! n this c ountry. But rsther than than all quit to a blogsphere, you stay "within a system". Why?
As I've pronounced many times before: It's since you truly hold in a genre. Call me old-fashion though you still hold which newspapers have a role in this cyber era. It's a craft which has been refined for centuries as good as still has a potential to heighten a public sermon in a approach blogs haven't nonetheless been means to.
That is all which you as good as you brave contend many reporters as good as columnists, as good set out to do every week as good as day. Everything's political no doubt, though it should be probable for citizens of a nation to verbalise but having it received similar to a stipulation of war.
The actuality which you still have to rely upon a "third eyes" shows how little you have unequivocally progressed spiritually as good as mentally despite all a element advances all these years. There's a unequivocally large chance which not doing anything about this will consign us to irrelevance.
It is with which in mind, as good as a actuality which a subsequent ubiquitous election is looming, which you am now proposing to spend a subsequent couple of weeks essay about issues which Malaysians need to be unequivocally meditative about, of questions a politicians as good as we, typical folk, aren't asking.
I goal to excavate in to what unequivocally constitutes a inhabitant seductiveness as good as additionally those age-old questions of what it unequivocally equates to to be Malaysian.
The subsequent ubiquitous election will be a many critical polls we've had in decades as good as might good conclude a future. It's important, therefore, which you go in to them bargain what's during stake. Having explained because as good as how you write, you goal to be means to minister to this process.
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