Entries Tagged as ‘Media Democracy’

May 12, 2008

KJ’s NUJ keynote speech in full

Malaysiakini
 

May 10, 08 11:00pm

Below is the keynote speech delivered by Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin at the National Union of Journalists forum ‘General Elections 2008: Press Freedom’, organised to commemorate the May 3 World Press Freedom Day.
Someone related to me this description of Malaysian journalists. In the first few years of their career, they will [...]

April 17, 2008

Whither Makkal Osai?

 

RK Anand | Apr 17, 08 4:14pm
 

An eerie silence enveloped the Makkal Osai office last night. Save for a few staff, the rest had returned home to ponder over their future.
The usually busy editorial floor was deserted when Malaysiakini visited the Tamil daily’s office in Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur.
The daily was informed via a letter [...]

April 16, 2008

Makkal Osai banned-there is no hope for media freedom!

Malaysiakini

Apr 16, 08 4:58pm 

The Home Ministry today rejected the renewal of Tamil daily Makkal Osai’s publication permit, a move believed to be related to the widespread coverage given to the opposition.When contacted, Makkal Osai general manager SM Periasamy confirmed that the ministry issued the letter which stated that the daily’s application ‘will not be considered’.The [...]

March 15, 2008

News Contradiction

Yesterdays UMNO demonstration in KOMTAR get wide coverage from our local media. But, the protestors numbers is differ with one and another…
Do media report a news as it is, or cover up the news as it wants?

Malaysiakini reported that there are 1000 UMNO members and supporters are there… and 3000 onlookers include 8 truck FRU

Utusan Malaysia [...]

March 14, 2008

Media Monitor

If we see how our news media potraying political changes in Malaysia is incredible. They started to campaigning for BN right away from now on. The news scopes mostly shows that BN has “insaf”. THey will working to tackle all the problems in country. So it means that before this nothing has been done?
Now our [...]