Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Another blow to Malaysia from BBC apology

Another blow to Malaysia from BBC apology

Malaysia's picture is receiving a violence from a BBC's global apology for regulating eight programmes produced by UK-based broadside consultants FBC Media as partial of a work for a Malaysian government, says A Kadir Jasin, former chief editor of New Straits Times Press. He questioned whether a supervision had been wise to spend taxpayers' income upon costly unfamiliar consultants.

Besides FBC Media, a supervision has previously admitted regulating APCO International, a single of a largest lobbying firms in a US, with a stipulate worth RM27mil for image-building work.

Kadir questions need for costly outsiders

That a BBC had been hoodwinked into 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 control has caused a nation shame. Instead of benefiting from FBC costly handiwork, Malaysia's picture has instead been further damaged.

The subject is: How could a supervision (and a agencies) have done such a mistake when you know which teams upon teams of "high-powered" media professionals have been employed 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 caught red-handed as well as with a pants down, does not speak well of a government's media teams as well as personalities.

Perhaps this is a complaint as well as result 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 shielded FBC Media. He told Parliament a supervision paid a association twenty million euros (about RM90mil) from 2007 to 2000 to correct a c! ountry's picture as well as pronounced western leaders had given turn some-more receptive of Najib Tun Razak. Nazri accused antithesis politicians of disparaging a country. "If they do not bad mouth a supervision by stuff oneself lies to a general media, you do not have to pay any income to correct a image," he said.

Nazri's reason abandoned a fact which Najib's picture complaint was since he was then related to a Altantuya Shaariibuu murder, as well as allegations done which he had an event with a woman, a translater from Mongolia who helped a Najib associate, Razak Baginda, in negotiations for Malaysia's squeeze 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 improve a picture of Sarawak chief apportion Taib Mahmud, as well as had intent a Conservative statesman as a orator for Sime Darby, which it described as an FBC client.

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