I’m beginning to grow tired of Nazri Abdul Aziz. We have been seeing too much of him lately. :-)
So today, MalaysiaKini ran a good story on Dato’ Zainuddin Maidin, our Information Minister. It seems that our Information Minister has given our Malaysian media some kind of an unholy instruction recently. They were told to avoid from playing up or over-sensationalize any negative news to the Malaysian public.
Wow!
What was that? Were they saying that it would be okay to give white or ‘Mamak’ lies to ordinary Malaysians?
You know something folks. Long time ago, I stumbled upon a very disturbing document in the internet. The document talks about many things. Among them, political domination through press control. Yes, this is my exclusive story for you folks out there. Not even MalaysiaKini, HarakahDaily or MalaysiaToday have this sensational story as of time of writing.
Let me quote some of the disturbing key points found in the document:
“NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.”
“Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.”
“In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.”
“In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.”
“In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.”
"All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.”
“In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.”
“THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.”
The whole shebang smells and sounds like Barisan Nasional!
Does it really belong to Barisan Nasional?
Does it have anything to do with our Malaysian Information Ministry?
Stay tuned, folks!
Bwah! Ha! Ha!
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