The Star has made a playground out of Sumptuous Erotica, a blog mutually put up by a pair of fresh graduates featuring pithy photographs as well as self-filmed videos of their passionate exploits.
The paper carried 4 stories related to a "sex blog integrate Alvin Tan as well as Vivian Lee" yesterday, seven upon Saturday as well as six upon Friday, making for a total of 17 articles just over a long week end alone.
Earlier, The Star's breaking story ' Porn blog integrate causes furore' published upon Oct 17 captivated 86,649 page views online. Its follow-up story ' Vivian Lee defends postings of her erotic cinema as well as videos with boyfriend ' published upon Thursday was review 85,675 times in The Star Online.
It would not be during all startling if a Alvin-Vivian uncover netted The Star all in all tighten to half a million reads both in print as well as over a Internet.
In contrast, Utusan Malaysia has thus distant usually published a single online essay upon a affair as well as even that, it was mainly to allude to an military officer from a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC) observant which no action will be taken opposite a couple.
There is most to be commended for a patience shown by a Utusan a paper whose views as well as headlines reports we am mostly in feud with in a single clinical discuss compared to a measure of stories carried by The Star given Wednesday.
Top coronet exploited issue
For right away The Star is still milking a sensational exposure with a ' Sex blog integrate blasted for giving a "free show"' about how a pair became a topic of contention during a MCA Youth as well as Wanita AGMs as well as by an op-ed piece by a paper's organisation editor Wong Chun Wai. What improved reverence to a MCA's new found sense of probity as well as righteousness (and maybe to assistance swing a little votes their way?) than to draw courtesy to a party's concern with a disappearing standard of passionate control amongst a little of a youth.
Wong's editorial titled ' Red-faced? Certainly not!' celebrated which publicity "is something they [Alvin as well as Vivian] obviously enjoy. To Wong, they "seemed delighted by a attention".
While Wong elects to pontificate upon a couple's attention-seeking as well as pragmatic shameless behaviour, he conveniently ignores which it is his own paper leading a pack in a paparazzi stuff oneself frenzy.
Exploitation by The Star as well as a 3 sister air wave stations of a unfolding melodrama has exposed a MCA-owned media conglomerate's adherence to low reliable standards previously in governing body though right away social matters.
Wong as well as his co-worker Ho Kay Tat as a paper's top coronet contingency take a censure for this. In attempting to sell their paper through striking a "porn blog" object for several days running, they have shown their loyal colours profit-seeking during any as well as all cost.
Not a first, nor will they be a last
Alvin as well as Vivian have been dual young people who have challenged Malaysian social as well as passionate convention. They have been right away reminded which they live in a conservative (as well as often hypocritical) society where a position they have taken upon leisure of expression is deemed to be unacceptable, as well as a holier-than-thou facade as well as stand in standards have been dominant in a passionate as well as other aspects of life.
They have been not a initial as well as let us hope which they will not be a final to plea a prevalent notions of passionate poise as well as mores especially when these do not conform to those held by so-called representatives or articulators of open morality.
Vivian's censure "It is all right for Westerners to do this though not Asians....I cannot assimilate why people have to decider us" might sound similar to ridiculous logic. But she as well as Alvin have been during a slightest open as well as honest about their views with apply oneself to limiting as well as odious social norms. We might disagree with them though still, their views do have a little merit.
What goes around, comes around - JOKE'S upon MCA!
Veteran newspapermen similar to Wong protest which a moralists as well as ultra liberals alike who have been indignant with a media for providing a coverage "would substantially have review each line of each essay about a duo". But it is a media inaugural who have been pandering to a voyeuristic instincts of a society.
Many of us disgusted with The Star's coverage have not review each line. We do not intend to upon this as well as similar stories. The Star should stop as well as leave Alvin as well as Vivian alone as well as move upon to coverage of more serious as well as weighty headlines such as an analysis upon a National Education Blueprint.
In his ultimate posting upon Facebook, Alvin named MCA boss Chua Soi Lek as his purpose model. "I used to look up to Dr Chua Soi Lek, sexually. Funny how things turned out," wrote a 24 year-old law student during a National University of Singapore. - Malaysia Chronicle Editor's Note
Dr Lim Teck Ghee is a executive of Centre for Policy Inititaives
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