Boycott?
— ikram • December 2nd, 2007
A people movement in Malaysia is planning to boycott mainstream media as they tend to publish unbalanced and misleading stories.
“We started the campaign on not to buy papers such as Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, Metro, News Strait Times, on Thursday 29 November 2007 because they publish misleading information and so unbalanced,” said head of the movement Khalid Jaafar as quoted by Antara.
The people also demanded the media to be independent. “It cannot be influenced by anyone but its own editors.”
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Marisa Duma
Yes, I’ve heard some stuffs about the News Strait Times.
And maybe there’s more to that?
I have an issue of Malaysia’s Her World (I mean, Her World. That’s like women’s fashion and lifestyle type of magazine, far from being political.) featuring a story on this batik shop, using Indonesian terms such as batik nyonya, konde, etc …unfortunately, they forgot to mention Indonesia, or eat least the Javanese culture in it.
I guess it’s some kind of a media habit there.
Regards,
Marisa Duma
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 am
Marisa Duma
Sorry. That’s “…unfortunately, they forgot to mention Indonesia, or AT least the Javanese culture in it.”
Typo.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:13 am