The UMNO controlled Bernama News agency yesterday reported with the sub headlines “Unfulfilled promises for Indians as Pakatan rule continues” (9/3/2010).
Malaysiakini.com and Steven Gan’s mischievously reports the same Bernama news but with the heading “Uthaya” MIC slam Pakatan’s unfulfilled promises”, with the view to maliciously give the impression that P. Uthayakumar is in cohorts with the MIC, and provides the opening for readers to bash HRP, Hindraf and P. Uthayakumar. This is slanted reporting!
Malaysiakini.com should return to it’s original principles of being the voice for the voiceless and the underdogs and stop being a blind PKR and PR mouthpiece and anti the voiceless and underdog HRP, Hindraf and ethnic minority Malaysian Indians.
The latest and today’s example of Malaysiakini.com and Steven Gan not being the voice for the voiceless and underdog Indians is the newsreport in Makkal Osai dated 10/3/10 at page …. to the effect that about 10,000 Tamil school pupils enrolling in Standard One are unable to read and write at all because of poverty and therefore they did not attend kindergardens. This and hundreds of other such reports are not reported by even Malaysiakini.com, just as the UMNO controlled mainstream media, as it may be deemed to be “not pressworthy” i.e., it does not appeal to 92% of the malay, muslim, natives and Chinese majoritarian “political gallery”. Problematic Indian issues are blacked out.
The least Malaysiakini.com could do is to allow links to commentaries in our HRP website in their malaysiakini website. Which they did, but after just three weeks even this link had been removed under PKR’s pressure.
Just browse Malaysiakini.com on a day to day basis and one can conclude that just about every community’s interest is highlighted accordingly, except the Indian poor and underprivileged inspite of the acute nature and gravity of it.
So much for Malaysiakini.com’s press freedom and being the voice for the voiceless and the underdogs! Et tu Brutus? What a disappointment.
S. Jayathas
Information Chief
HRP
Malaysiakini.com and Steven Gan’s mischievously reports the same Bernama news but with the heading “Uthaya” MIC slam Pakatan’s unfulfilled promises”, with the view to maliciously give the impression that P. Uthayakumar is in cohorts with the MIC, and provides the opening for readers to bash HRP, Hindraf and P. Uthayakumar. This is slanted reporting!
Malaysiakini.com should return to it’s original principles of being the voice for the voiceless and the underdogs and stop being a blind PKR and PR mouthpiece and anti the voiceless and underdog HRP, Hindraf and ethnic minority Malaysian Indians.
The latest and today’s example of Malaysiakini.com and Steven Gan not being the voice for the voiceless and underdog Indians is the newsreport in Makkal Osai dated 10/3/10 at page …. to the effect that about 10,000 Tamil school pupils enrolling in Standard One are unable to read and write at all because of poverty and therefore they did not attend kindergardens. This and hundreds of other such reports are not reported by even Malaysiakini.com, just as the UMNO controlled mainstream media, as it may be deemed to be “not pressworthy” i.e., it does not appeal to 92% of the malay, muslim, natives and Chinese majoritarian “political gallery”. Problematic Indian issues are blacked out.
The least Malaysiakini.com could do is to allow links to commentaries in our HRP website in their malaysiakini website. Which they did, but after just three weeks even this link had been removed under PKR’s pressure.
Just browse Malaysiakini.com on a day to day basis and one can conclude that just about every community’s interest is highlighted accordingly, except the Indian poor and underprivileged inspite of the acute nature and gravity of it.
So much for Malaysiakini.com’s press freedom and being the voice for the voiceless and the underdogs! Et tu Brutus? What a disappointment.
S. Jayathas
Information Chief
HRP
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