Aliran Monthly Cover Story: Hacks and Hussies (fwd)

["M.G.G. Pillai" <pillai@mgg.pc.my>]

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:19:58 +0800
From: Aliran <alirankn@tm.net.my>
To: pillai@mgg.pc.my
Subject: Aliran Monthly Cover Story: Hacks and Hussies

Highlights from the latest Aliran Monthly
http://www.malaysia.net/aliran/

Cover Story

Hacks and Hussies

How much cruder and more vulgar can Malaysian mainstream media become?

by Zaharom Nain

Never has such a large segment of the Malaysian public been more
disenchanted with their leaders than at the present moment. Yet never have
the Malaysian mainstream media been so out of touch with this public
sentiment.

Instead of addressing head-on the people's many legitimate concerns and
anxieties, the mainstream media - and mainstream journalists, by and large
- have ignored these concerns, dismissed them as the preoccupations of
agitators and troublemakers out to create discord in society, or give sorry
excuses for the media's own shortcomings.

In what can only be described as a lame and pathetic attempt at defending
the indefensible, a senior Malaysian reporter from the mainstream media
recently wrote in a regional media newsletter that despite everything
that's happened in Malaysia over the past couple of years, there are still
'conscientious editors and journalists who do what they can to push those
imaginary boundaries (of responsible journalism).'  Surely she was talking
about 'imaginary editors and journalists' instead of imaginary boundaries?

For the full article, please click http://www.malaysia.net/aliran/
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