Happy Birthday, Hata Wahari
By Sharifuddin A Latiff On 18th September 2010, Reina of HartalMSM wrote “NUJ died a long time ago” which Hata Wahari who had just been elected the NUJ president took notice and posted a comment. Shortly after, I and another HartalMSM member had the privilege of meeting Hata in person to touch base on matters … Continue reading
Malaysian Media Promotes Racist Fascism
by Eyes Wide Open You can always predict the mood of the BN by reading between the lines of MSM reports. Leading up to the 2008 elections, the mood was arrogance personified as page after page was rife with stories of how great BN politicians are, how stupid Opposition politicians were and how subservient the … Continue reading
New Definition Of “Trial By Media” Courtesy of Utusan
by Eyes Wide Open In 2010, A-G Abd Gani Patail advised Khir Toyo not to pursue a trial-by-media in his land fraud case. He said that whatever he said in the media could be used against him and “The more you say, the more you are going to hurt yourself.” This is probably the first case in the world … Continue reading
Danger of normalizing ‘pariah’
UPDATE: Connected story, ‘Baby’s throat slashed, parents, siblings slaughtered‘ ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo CiFwatch, which monitors the psychosis of The Guardian (a British paper that is determinedly anti-Israel), has a write-up which is useful in helping to elucidate the Interlok situation. In ‘Harriet Sherwood and the normalization of anti-Israel bigotry‘, CiFwatch blogger Adam Levick explains how he … Continue reading
Interlok: Could Ridhuan Tee be right after all?
When a white novelist writes the dialogue of a black character, the condescension can make his reader cringe. Take the sample below: “I looks like gwine to heaven, an’t thar where white folks is gwine? S’pose they’d have me thar? I’d rather go to torment, and get away from Mas’r and Missis. I had so.” … Continue reading
Ridhuan Tee slams ‘Interlok’ protesters as extremists
Utusan columnist Ridhuan Tee today whacked the Indians in his article ‘Jangan menang sorak‘. He labels “an extremist demand” the call by Indian NGOs for the novel ‘Interlok’ to be withdrawn as a Form 5 exam text. He quotes the claim by Malay NGO group Majlis Perundingan Melayu that the Indians have “memutarbelit” (twisted) the … Continue reading
Challenging Teo Nie Ching’s ardent fans
What a waste of a perfectly good chicken… ‘DAP MP gets threat note, bloody chicken’. Reporting that the ‘jihad’ note is believed to be linked to Teo’s mosque controversies, Insider quoted her personal assistant Mohammad Firdaus Babh as saying the CCTV had recorded two young men in the act. [Firdaus] described the men to be … Continue reading
Ridhuan Tee at it again / Utusan on Sunday outsells Star
By Hartal MSM Uppercaise and Sakmongkol in their Jan 16 postings updated respectively on the newspaper circulation numbers and kind of readership. We’re adding our 2 sen here on the Icker factor. uppercaise blogged: ‘Metro, Sin Chew are tops, NST bottoms below 80,000‘ Citing the Audit Bureau of Circulation, uppercaise posted a list of the Top … Continue reading
Nazi Celup Ala Malaysia
by Eyes Wide Open Merely 2 days after Ridhuan Tee’s Nazi-flavoured anti-Christian rant was published, Utusan Malaysia delivers yet another Nazi-flavoured rant. This time about the controversial appointment of the Selangor State Secretary. In his column, assistant editor-in-chief Zaini Hassan called on Malays to zealously defend their sovereignty in the country, declaring: “Do we Malays … Continue reading
Nazi-uan Tee Strikes Again!
by Eyes Wide Open “Christmas celebration sometimes looks as if they form more than 50 per cent of the population. Out of respect for religious freedom, no restriction has been imposed, although it should be celebrated moderately as they are less than ten per cent of the population.” “…jika tidak ada arahanpun, sepatutnya pihak gereja … Continue reading
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