When did a NST discover journalism?
Has The Star Caught The Mahathir Bug?
Lazy stating as well as shoal journalism
Malaysian broadcasting got walloped 3 times final week: a NST was whacked for a remarkable detonate of journalism, a Star for a remarkable detonate of frivolity, as well as all Malaysian broadcasting whacked for never ripping awake from a slumbers as well as always receiving a easy approach out.
Lim Teck Ghee during a Centre for Policy Initiatives, customarily a level-headed guy, was faraway by a NST unexpected rousing itself as well as starting a brand brand new year underneath a brand brand new boss! , it sho uld be noted by unexpected realising which there's Corruption At The Border! (Gasp!) Border police, Customs as well as Road Transport officers take bribes to close one eye! (Shock!).
Luckily Teck Ghee recovered from his befuddlement in time to realize which a NST is merely vital up to a role as a creature of a PM's Department as well as Umno's report apparatchiks, as well as merely compelling a good (Umno-BN-government) side of a means du jour.
On a alternative palm Khoo Kay Peng a commentator as well as analyst (and not a tycoon, history professor or journalist), was pissed off by a Star's frivolous skirmish into investigating a base means of Lim Guan Eng's changing hairstyles.
He decried a miss of courtesy to serious matters some-more estimable of space in a country's heading English-language newspaper.
Well, yes, that's true. The press could do with a little some-more courtesy to critical matters as well as not rely on outward commentators as well as columnists to do a work of poking into big issues. On a alternative palm a demeanour during a "Most Viewed" boxes during all online headlines sites will reveal what essentially is of interest to a general celebration of a mass public.
Most of them aren't likely to be avid readers of a Comment & Analysis sections of a world's heading newspapers they don't even allow to Aliran or MalaysiaKini, for which matter.
And a cursory survey of a day's headlines in all Malaysian headlines sites will show an overwhelming! prepond erance of reports on politicians talking (as if they were all which mattered), as well as general shallowness as well as frivolity in headlines as well as non-news sections. As in a rest of a universe renouned newspapers distant outsell critical newspapers as well as frivolity outsells seriousness.
Zaharom Naim a media professor, by approach of shining contrast, showed a approach ahead by focusing on a indolence which lies behind many Malaysian journalism. Zaharom's point was essentially a critique of a he pronounced she said stating as well as transcription journalism which lies behind almost all headlines reports. And Azman Azwan Azmawati of USM, speaking during a same forum, criticised a miss of context in many Malaysian journalism.
Valid points from all of them, not just for newspapers though broadcasting as well as online, too.
Little will change, however, until Malaysian journalists themselves have been peaceful to confess a necessary truths behind these complaints, confess to shortcomings inside of a trade, as well as to climb beyond merely attacking a complement or bad schooling, as NUJ general cabinet member V Anbalagan did in reply to Zaharom as well as Azmawati.
Indeed, shoddy broadcasting has arisen from Malaysia's warped domestic enlightenment as well as institutions which prize consent on top of excellence, as well as from a multitude which condones mediocrity. The Malaysian politician, businessman, or endangered adult who demands which journalists expose a mud about their rivals or opponents all as well mostly have been additionally discerning to direct which journalists cover up a mud on themselves.
But for! all tha t, Malaysian journalists would be failing themselves if they did not direct of themselves a same standards of value they direct of a rest of Malaysian society, whether in education, politics or supervision web sites.
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