Malaysian bloggers among highest in the world

We are just behind Indonesia and EU, with approximately 500,000 bloggers. I’d never knew there could be so many “beruks”, “pembohong” and “jobless widows” here of which I’m one of them, or there’s a sharp increase since the election? Even Khir Toyo now blogs, I bet that gangster Nazri Aziz, who probably still thinks we are minority inferior beings is feeling a bit very daft now that we are the majority……in the blogging world!!

He seemed to agree a 20-minute programme on RTM1 as one of the segments of Warta Perdana, the prime news bulletin. Thing is, I wonder……will the bloggers invited are the type of I-blog-abt-my-fren’s-b’day-party-only or the real McCoy political bloggers like Jeff Ooi? Also, they will be restricted by rules of conduct set, and knowing Malaysia, I doubt it’ll be any more fun than watching Top Gear. Top Gear excels because they go beyond than a typical talk of pop and bang of the camshafts and crankshafts crap, that kind of daring out-of-the-norm feat will never be achieved with the “rules of conduct set” by Malaysian MSM. Partly because in UK, the journalists are the real warlord, their writings make Tony Blair look more noob than romPAK LAH, and partly because we have a ‘bent’ ISA.

Or just maybe, they’ll invite bloggers who are hardcore BN supporters, who probably are the same people who’ve written disgusting remarks in Utusan? It’ll be back to the square one if that’s the case.

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Half boycotting MSM

This past week, I’ve had a chance to pick up Utusan Malaysia, and God, I’ve never felt so disgusted when I read papers.

All my life, I’ve grown up reading English mainstream media (MSM), The Malay Mail, The Star and New Straits Times. They were all, well, biased to the BN govt, but at least there’s a sense of professionalism in their writing from a journalistic point of view. In fact, if ever any of them sounded disgusting and stupid, it usually comes out from the mouth of the ministers and MPs, rarely ever from the journalists’ mouth. I’ve stopped reading The Malay Mail for God knows how long, NST just last year, and that means I only read The Star today. Occasionally, whenever I’ve the chance, I’ll take The Sun and Malaysian Today too.

So when Subang Jayan answered the call for a boycott on MSM last month, I kept mum. I felt it’s wrong, because the MSM that I read may have a misguided political outlook, but they’re entirely acceptable on other factors, like education section,
they also cater an otaku column, on cars, on books, et cetera. Besides, their political take is easily understood by the fact that they’re owned by the component parties of BN. Dogs don’t bark at its owner, do they?