As of today, Aliran has stopped subscribing to a New Straits Times.
It is a preference that was deferred several times since you felt you had to guard a mainstream media's coverage. But a one-sided stating as well as a biased coverage have been tough to stomach; indeed it has upset thinking as well as caring Malaysians.
It does not meant you have been now starting to subscribe to The Star. We discontinued The Star as well as Utusan many years ago for a same reason. The Star's stating has been even worse than a NST. (But some competence dispute this!) We shan't even speak about Utusan
Of late, both The Star's as well as a NST's coverage of a political situation has been nauseating. There is a commonality in blatantly dubious a public. Malaysians have been misinformed, told to keep their eyes only on a single side of a silver as well as kept in a dim about a other side.
The Opposition is deliberately denied space in their coverage. The Opposition is misquoted as well as disproportion have been added when they were not even uttered. Repeated as well as eager attempts by a Opposition to rebut dubious stating have been all ignored, foul as well as unjustly.
Journalistic ethics as well as adherence to law have been no longer sacrosanct. They have gone with a wind. Spinning stories as well as inventing lies to distort a law have been no longer antithetical to respectable journalism.
Utusan says it's OK
According to a deputy chief editor of Utusan Malaysia, Mohd Zaini Hassan, such wanton infamous control is excellent as long as a Opposition is targeted!! He call s it spinning as well as not lying. It looks similar to it is a declared policy to await passageway for liquid journalism!
This reported acknowledgment of reprobate broadcasting is sickening as well as reprehensible. Mohd Zaini made this acknowledgement during a forum on social media organized by Biro Tata Negara as well as a 1Malaysia Social Media Convention secretariat.
Genuine mass media practitioners rehearse their craft to get as tighten to a law as possible. They should never be partisan politicians, though mass media practitioners certainly never propagandists.
Appealing to a good sense of editors to defend goodness as well as morality is not starting to have any difference. They will remain indifferent as well as go on to be collection of a Barisan Nasional, dishing out filth as well as dirt.
Hit them where it hurts most
The subject is, have been you starting to concede this flippant perspective to go on during our expense? It is only a people who can bring about change. It is only you who can bring behind ethical broadcasting in a media, chuck out passageway for liquid stating once as well as for all, as well as stop this nationally unpropitious exercise.
If you stop reading a mainstream media, their dissemination will suffer. Once a advertisers know about a dump in circulation, they will stop promotion in these newspapers. Then, a owners will be strike tough where it hurts; a bottom-line will spin red due to a dump in revenue.
Editors will come to their senses. In a last analysis, it is a ringgit as well as sen that is dear to a owners as well as their editors not a values or virtues of true journalism.
When this monetary flow is cut off, they will have to sit up as well as handle as they ought to, by paying homage to law as well as justice, as well as give us a respect you deserve as readers as well as advertisers.
Aliran has taken that f! irst ste p to repudiate them a increase they never deserve as propagandists. Are you as readers as well as advertisers ready to follow suit? (Some readers may already have done so a long time ago.) Together, you can have a disproportion as well as spin this nation of ours in to a guide for law as well as justice.
P Ramakrishnan, a evident past president of Aliran, currently serves on a Aliran executive committee
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