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Nick Xenophon : News Coverage of BERSIH3.0 grossly distorted

April 29, 2012

Senator Nick Xenophon (left) from Australia stressed that a proof itself was peaceful, as well as a "unnecessary violence" that occurred was "planned provocation" to yield images for a "officially sanctioned media".

He slammed mainstream media for a "completely biased as well as unfair" coverage of a rally. "The rally, that is a single of a biggest events in Malaysian history, perceived usually thirty seconds of airtime.I spent more time watching a Prime Minister carrying tea as well as eating banana fritters in Sabah," he said.The Malaysian Insider.

Nick Xenophon : Malaysian News Coverage of BERSIH3.0 grossly distorted

by Leven Woon @www.malaysiakini.com

An Australian Senator monitoring a BERSIH 3.0 convene yesterday was stunned when he tuned in to radio reports during night to find that headlines coverage of a event was grossly distorted.

"I watch radio headlines as well as usually saw thirty seconds of a coverage to a demonstration, with no word about it being a single of a largest demonstrations in Malaysian's history. Instead they spend more time observant (Premier) Najib Abdul Razak carrying a tea as well as eating banana fritters in Sabah," Nicholas Xenophon told a press conference today.

Xenophon is partial of a seven-member general organ! isation upon an fact-finding mission upon Malaysia's electoral system. They were invited by PKR de facto Anwar Ibrahim, in his capacity as Parliamentary Opposition Leader.

The press conference was called today because a organisation was releasing a halt inform of their study. The organisation had additionally celebrated a convene yesterday, that was largely pacific until a Dataran Merdeka thong was breached, sparking drawn out arrest, use of heavy-handed tactics, tear gas as well as water cannons.

Protestors could have been provoked

Prominent Indian publisher Mobashar Jawad Akhbar, who is a member of a group, opined that a Police competence have annoyed a protestors, with a intention of branch things violent.

"The crowd has been building overnight, they have plenty time to be aroused if they longed for to. It was really pacific until a really end. I do hold that a irritation was maybe finished in sequence to create images that will play well in a central media," pronounced Mobashar, who celebrated a convene for five hours.

He pronounced that this inspiring a victims in sequence to censure them later, was "one of a oldest tricks" in use by assorted authorities. Malaysian authorities, generally a Special Branch, are no exception.

Mobashar, a Editorial Director of India Today, noted that the consequential essence of democracy is a leisure from fear, that he pronounced is "non-negotiable". "Democracy does not duty when people do not have right to assembly," he said, praising a protestors for rising above fear.

Xenophon pronounced that their observation of how a media reported a convene would be enclosed in a team's full rep! ort, tha t is scheduled for release in 3 weeks.