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The ruling government is very adept at using the mainstream media for their own ends.

COMMENT

Lately there has been a lot of propaganda in the mainstream media on the recent price-hike protest held on December 31 last year. Some has been labelled it as an attempt to overthrow the government. This is nothing but another malicious attempt by certain quarters to mislead the general public so that the former can still continue to garner public support.

There are also mainstream dailies who are now publishing lies and falsehood on a daily basis. These dailies have been reduced to being party newsletters instead of being proper newspapers. In short, they are not really newspapers in the true sense of the word.

If not for the internet, we will not know what is truly happening as the truth will be manipulated or covered up. Likewise, it was easy to blame DAP for the race riots of 1969 because there was no internet or camera-phone during that era.

With the advent of modern technology, it is not easy to cover up the truth and therefore those who want to cling on to power find it easier to suppress the truth by allowing only poor internet coverage in remote or rural areas.

Feeding the rural folks with a daily diet of falsehood ensures that rural society is always kept misinformed, thus ensuring that they will never vote wisely.

We can see that BN government leaders do a lot of media-polishing to spruce up their personal image and that of their party by presenting a wonderful image of themselves in the mainstream media while information that is unflattering to themselves is suppressed or omitted.

It is thus preferable to read the neutral online news portals where information on both sides of the political divide is presented in an unvarnished truth.

Good or bad, news is news and must be presented correctly, accurately and factually. There must be no attempt whatsoever to hide the truth.

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Only a free media will tell the truth