Malaysia's picture is taking a beating from a BBC's tellurian apology for running 8 programmes constructed by UK-based broadside consultants FBC Media as part of a work for a Malaysian government, says A Kadir Jasin, former arch editor of New Straits Times Press. He questioned whether a supervision had been wise to outlay taxpayers' income upon expensive unfamiliar consultants.
Besides FBC Media, a supervision has formerly admitted regulating APCO International, a single of a largest lobbying firms in a US, with a stipulate value RM27mil for image-building work.
Kadir questions need for expensive outsiders
That a BBC had been duped in to airing a programmes, is a problem. The British broadcaster is profitable a cost for a oversight.
What should regard us is which taxpayers' income paid to FBC Media. Its unsuited conduct has caused our nation shame. Instead of benefiting from FBC dear handiwork, Malaysia's picture has instead been serve damaged.
The subject is: How could our supervision (and a agencies) have done such a mistake when you know which teams upon teams of "high-powered" media professionals have been in use by Putrajaya given Prime Minister Mohd Najib took over in 2009?
Did they not know who or what FBC Media is? To have their "global vital communications" contractor held red-handed as well as with a pants down, does not verbalise well of a government's media teams as well as personalities.
Perhaps this is a complaint as well as outcome of being too contingent upon outward advisers as well as consultants, as well as not being hands-on enough.
Malaysia's Image Tarnished In BBC's Apology
In November, law apportion Nazri Aziz defended FBC Media. He told Parliament a supervision paid a association 20 million euros (about RM90mil) from 2007 to 2000 to correct a ! country' s picture as well as pronounced horse opera leaders had given turn more receptive of Najib Tun Razak. Nazri indicted opposition politicians of adverse a country. "If they do not bad mouth a supervision by feeding lies to a general media, you do not have to pay any income to correct our image," he said.
Nazri's reason ignored a actuality which Najib's picture complaint was because he was afterwards related to a Altantuya Shaariibuu murder, as well as allegations done which he had an affair with a woman, a translater from Mongolia who helped a Najib associate, Razak Baginda, in negotiations for Malaysia's purchase of two French-made submarines. Razak's firm was reported to have been paid RM250mil in commissions.
Nazri additionally pronounced FBC Media did not commit any rapist offence, even though they were being investigated for ethics violations by broadcasters. Nazri: Govt paid FBC Media to correct picture abroad (Star Online) West warmer towards Najib (Free Malaysia Today)
The Sarawak Report web site, which has carried a detailed series of reports upon FBC Media's impasse in Malaysia's image-building, has pronounced a association additionally worked to urge a picture of Sarawak arch apportion Taib Mahmud, as well as had engaged a Conservative statesman as a orator for Sime Darby, which it described as an FBC client.
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