DAP, let’s remember who Wong Chun Wai is
He is the head honcho behind MCA’s and BN’s election media campaign out to “destroy” the Opposition, especially DAP.
He is also the guy whose paper didn’t print photos of the massive crowds at DAP ceramahs but instead those of some crowd in a BN rally in which Pak Lah attended.
His paper also published endless character assassinations on Anwar Ibrahim.
And that photo of Lim Kit Siang with a PAS flag towards polling date.
Why didn’t he interview Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Anwar, etc before the election?
Let’s not pretend Wong is some impartial, professional journalist. He didn’t even have the balls to ask his own questions in his interview with Guan Eng. You think readers can’t email Guan Eng these days to ask him such matters?
I dunno, but if I write what W.C. stands for it`ll get deleted
Sigh! More to come in tomorrow`s Star will be how brilliant and messianic the New Badawi Cabinet is.
Waaa Jed, really angry aaa? n also coming in defence of Anwar Ibrahim? Yup , I’ve read the interview he made with LGE (coffee Latte?). It was straight to the point. N to think the PAS Wallahs (Mat Sabu - Mr Vice (ekekek), Mujahid Yusf Rawa, MP Parit Buntar) are coming in defence of LGE giving me tears, Auuwwww shuckksss…. strange things r happening.
Yeah man. This guy was all out to wipe out the Opp, if you read his comments over the campaign period. And the coverage in the paper. Featuring all sorts of negative news on DAP but nothing on MCA…..Now try to kiss Guan Eng’s ass? WCW better think of an alternative career soon…Re Anwar, walau, The Star hardly gave him the right of reply just accusations by all the BN leaders, etc…..
Him and VK Chin will kiss ass to further their own interests any day. They have utterly no shame and lotta ego.
Wonder whether these dimwits and the major shareholder really understand the long term repercussion and effect of biased reporting on its own newsreporting credibilty…..
Before long…people will wise up to this and the Star newspaper will embark on an exponential decrease in its circulation…..
Once the downtrend has been set…..it is very difficult to arrest and reverse the downtrend….as people’s perception takes time to change…and now there are already alternative media in the cyberspace that appeals to the people with its relatively more professional news reporting….
KudaHitam, you are spot on.
I am waiting for the 2nd tsunami….MEDIA TSUNAMI. We should press for repeal of Printing and Publishing Act !
The case brought by the defenders of the old faith found many supporters among different strata of the Russian society, which would give birth to the Raskol movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raskol
The New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
This Raskol is still promting the dead NEP.
Jed,
Time to unleash an all out onslaught against biased reporting by The Star……..if you are up to it.
Just wondering how long and how much the shareholders are willing to stomach the losses that will surely come with a perceived regression in newsreporting credibility of The Star newpaper.
Ha ha ha. Yeah i was gonna ignore them but after all the PKR, DAP, PAS-bashing over the elections and now this about turn….COME ON MAN. DID YOU READ WHAT SOME OF THEM WROTE?
I did not read what some of them wrote……just a quick summary will suffice..Thank you
Jed. Cabinet line up oredy in… SIL not in list, tsk..wat a waste
Link Malaysiakini or Malaysia Today
So rude. It’s Datuk Wong Chun Wai ok!
Wong Chun Wai is just a poodle for UMNO.
Years ago I read V C Chin of STAR paper wrote a bad story about LKY and immediately LKY sue VK Chin. Guess what we all know that STAR paid off LKY to avoid the biggest news in Malaysia at that time.
But does Wong have a choice? Can we blame him. What would we do if we were in his shoes .. and need to put food on the table. I am not defending him …since mainstream reporting has been one lie after the other…. but looks like people have to make tough choices.
Should the opposition, now ruling in some states, forget the past, be friendly with these press. Is this how basically things operate. Do we have to take it in the stride. Are there any easy answers? Can anyone enlighten?
Give me a break-lah. Tough choices. Is it so tough to make a living? He chose the dark path…and had no qualms about all the reports he published….To demonise a group of unarmed men and women who were abused by the police and the baseless character assassination of Anwar, etc….
It’s up to the previously ignored and mostly villified political parties. Just be clear that The Star’s masters are their political enemies who didn’t blink when attacking them….ALL THE TIME…
Dear venka,
Putting food on the table & all??? Would you do it? I mean if UMNO-BN offer to pay you a decent salary, make you their pet etc, would you in return write lies after lies for them???
We all here have choices to make in life. Wong Chun Wai made his. And if he thinks he is earning an ‘honest’ living publishing lies, it is his choice. No one put a gun to his head.
I do know there are other means to put food on the table. Wong Chun Wai chose to prostitute his integrity.
Of course not man. I may burn in HELL.
Penangites all wake up please! Show your support for your new State Gomen under LGE … BOYCOTT STAR ASAP …. Time to show solidarity and the true meaning of Journalist code of ethics ! ..
jed,
you shouldn’t stoop so low as to encourage & championing the practice witch-hunting after a good victory by the opposition in GE2008.
the DAP, & PKR, thankfully were more magnanimous in their victory than to be bogged down by such petty issue - as to take issue whether one person is more pro-BN or pro-BR. we’re riding on the waves of change & more openness in expression - LGE allows for UMNO demo in Komtar - yet you seem to be doing what I think should be associated with previous regime.
Just my humble opinion.
PhilipLIM.
I’m not stooping LOW but Wong Chun Wai is responsible for the BIAS reporting in The Star. To say that he has to cari makan is just a convenient excuse when he went ALL out to demonise and condemn DAP, PKR and Anwar Ibrahim. WCW is not more pro-BN, he works for a BN paper. Star is owned by the MCA. Let’s be clear here. We are not going for a witch hunt.
Personally I would have had a very difficult time working in today’s SMS. Churning out so may lies, demonizing innocents (such as the hindraf 5) and fooling millions of people — I don’t want to even think what will be the karmic ramifications.
I used to respect Wong Chun Wai’s writing in the past when he came across as level headed. But now … he has totally lost it. I guess many would feel the same way
and that is a mighty fall when your reader’s think so low of you.
I am not sure what can salvage MSM’s media now.
Yo. BRO. SMS? Ke Ke. I used to respect WCW too and was so saddened when he published a photo of CARS stuck in traffic when about 10,000 people gathered in front of the Istana Negara during the BERSIH rally. And the villification of Hindraf supporters who were demonstrating peacefully to voice out their legitimate grouses after close to 50 years of marginalisation under the UMNO-led government. Then that latest piece on PAS just proves WCW’s narrow worldview and reluctance to embrace the culture of the majority.
Philip, a witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
None of such symptom exist and we’re not zealots. For the Truth hunt which these self-serving rascals have hidden and twisted, yes, for so darn long too. Therefore they deserve all the chastisement they get today. These scribes have insulted our intelligence for so long and lied to kingdom come remorselessly.
>Yo. BRO. SMS? Ke Ke.
SMS, MSM … still makes sense!
Wonder what’s going on in Wong’s mind nowadays. I for sure, would not be able to sleep in the night — villifying the victims the way he did.
My poor dad (retired govt servant) has been believing all this MSM (NST) stuff … Now he still is figuring out what really happened! I think, ofall MSM really managed to fool the older generation. If not for their support … BN would have suffered heavy losses.
Dear Venka, Everyone has a choice. Some choices are hard to make, others are easy. WCW’s one was an relatively easy one because he was sufficiently educated, much more than many on the streets. He chose the dishonest one and revel in his Latukship and ivory tower, serving the cause of the Dark Lord Sauron for the damnation of others.
Hope I’m being too melodramatic but the message is self-evident.
Ha ha ha ha. Nice touch there. Dark Lord Sauron. Ha ha ha ha. He is the Gollum….obsessed with the power of the RING>>>>>>>>>>>one ring to RULE THEM ALL…
When Palestinians fight against their Jewish colonialists, the Jews are painted as the victims.
But when Tibetans violently riot against Chinese, the Tibetans are painted as the victims?
Why the double-standard? Because the Western press is totally run by anti-Sino Zionist Jews? Hmmm…
And why only free Tibet? Why not free Palestine? First Nation? Australia?
Also, the DL does not strive for independence, only autonomy. This is based on the 1951 treaty that officially annexed Tibet into China under the condition that it would still have its own autonomous government.
I think you commented on the wrong post….Did you?
if somebody paid your wages, would u dare to speak against them?
we’ve also have to look at things the other way also ya know. yes he might have demonised the opposition, but its not a hidden secret how the major dailies are owned by BN’s component parties. so u expect them to go against their boss?
would you?
besides, i dont buy local papers anymore, and thats my way of censoring unwanted news.
Hello. WCW is the head honcho of Star. His job is not to report news, etc. His job is to make sure MCA and BN wins the election and carries on their policies.
`you shouldn’t stoop so low as to encourage & championing the practice witch-hunting after a good victory by the opposition in GE2008.`-philip
I dunno why he stoops so low to defend a hypocrite like WCW.
Ok. Philip if you think WCW should be excused, at least allow us to tar n feather that ugly manipulator.
Buggers can`t be choosers - Winston Churchill
….. The March of Lawyers , BERSIH walk , HINDRAF and the Mother of all RALLIES … DAP at Han Chiang … and what was reported ???? … The mamak 500 outstations marchers … hmmmm seems to be WCW can see even the ghosts in the march !!!!
Borrowed from Abraham Lincoln the great > ” You can fool some people of the time , Some people all the time BUT NOT ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME ”
P/S Esp ALL 50% of the recent voters who voted FOR CHANGE !!!
Wong Chun Wai, VK Chin, Josceline Tan are nothing but slime. They have no balls (Ooops! sorry Josceline). These people have no dignity whatsoever. Boycott The Star!
wits0, thank you for your reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
I have to take a long time to reply because my command of the english language is not so good, so I have to read the wikipedia reference you so kindly referred to many many times. I don’t know how many times you’ve read, but it looks like you just read the first paragraph, which of course you are right - witch-hunt is about the search for witches and evidence of witchcraft. But further on in the 4th paragraph, it’s stated …
The term “witch-hunt” is often used to refer to similarly panic-induced searches for perceived wrong-doers other than witches. The best known example is probably the McCarthyist search for communists during the Cold War.
Ok, perhaps I was wrong to imply jed yoong was “panic-induced” - but my use of the term “witch-hunt” is meant to be metaphorically, and the very same wikipedia reference that you so cleverly referred to, in the paragraph twds the end …
The Oxford English Dictionary describes the first recorded use of the term in its metaphorical sense in George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia (1938). The term is used by Orwell to describe how, in the Spanish Civil War, political persecutions became a regular occurrence.
So, perhaps my use of the term wasn’t so far out as you’ve made it out to be. Of course I stand to be corrected - being a newby to all this blog, responses, internet thingy.
and hutchrun, I wasn’t defending WCW - I’ve never read his article & I have not known him. I was writing on the basis that in the post GE2008 era - we should not look back, but look forward - we should not seek out previous wrong doer bot to be magnanimous in the our victory. (LGE even “forgave” those previous wrong doers & cancel their summons) And I think to fault (or to “punish” - I use it loosely here) someone for what he’s done pre GE2008 is exactly the thing that is so vulgarily associated with the previous regime - like the UMNO Penang calling for the stopping of fund as a “punishment” for penangnites to exercise their rights.
To follow this logic of “punishing” people based on their previous allegiance would have compelled LGE to sack (fire) all those civil servants that served the previous regime. Today’s paper has a picture of him “winning” these previous other-camp people over. Also the whole Penang Exco conducted so admirably that the counsellors have to resign en bloc - perhaps by instruction from HQ, or more likely I suspected they originally expected to be “chau yau yee” - so they can have a thing or two to say against the new Govt, but alas, the fire was not forthcoming.
ok, the gist of my point is now - & the earlier post - is to encourage us to embrace the new beginning, to be magnanimous towards the losers, to see the good in people - even in enemy - & a hope that people can change (people can tell me about leopards & spots - but I can say that spotless fawns can acquire spots as they aged). I want to look forward to the 13th edition of GE. while most people chastise the enemies like WCW - I hope the BR wins him over. and we get one more vote.
Having said this, & reading back my post, perhaps my choice of word “stoop so low” in reference to Jed may sound a bit lacking in aforethought - but I was thinking of how detest I was with the BN that warned ppl abt the consequences of voting for opposition that I puke at such an action.
Jed, if you took offense of the phrase - I apologise.
PhilipLIM
Dear Philip, THanks. I am not easily offended even if you call me names. And many have. I delete those comments cos they are rude and deface my blog which I try my very best to keep civil. The fact is the MSM have been publishing stuff to give BN a distinct advantage because they are owned by the BN. So I think it’s inaccurate to say editors like WCW are journalists who are after truth (well, as close to it as it can get), balance, fair play, etc. During the campaign period, he wrote some really nasty commentaries on the BR. This is fine but he completely ignores the chaos in BN. So this is “unfair”. Nothing wrong wth being bias, just be upfront about it. It’s nothing new, and has been this way since Dr M took away their licence in 87..
Hope to see you again.
WCW can never change, and it is not a question of `punishing` him. How can he be punished, he works for his masters - MCA. He will continue to write from the BN angle - which means `zero opposition`.
And just as he writes in the MCA paper, spewing ugly mind control, we too can write `knocking` his manipulations. Not to do so would be to share the burden of his sin - which very frankly I`m not inclined to.
Btw Philip your english isn`t bad at all
Haris Ibrahim & Star:
Anonymous was referring to the Star Forum scheduled for next Monday, 24th March that was alluded to in yesterday’s issue of the Star and which mentioned that I, together with several others would be speaking thereat.
One of my journalist buddies from the Star ( yes, I do have journalist friends. I keep company with the good guys! ) asked me last week if I would participate in the Forum.
I said yes.
Then this Monday, 17th March, I posted the ‘boycott the lying newspapers’ post calling for a boycott of the MSM for a week to commence from 24th March, the same day that the forum is scheduled to take place.
Last night, at about 9.30pm, I called my friend at the Star, informed him that I felt that given the boycott was set to start on the same day of the forum, I would have to decline to participate in the same and asked that he convey my apologies to management for any inconvenience thereby occasioned.
My friend said he understood and would convey my apologies.
And yes, Anonymous, I was intending to wear that silly T-shirt to the forum.
http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/thank-you-star-but-not-this-24th-its-boycott-time/
gET FREE SUN, read Nades commentary today to judge how terrible was warlord Zakaria and how he abused his own people while khir toyo did nothing.
yeah. is nades still there?
Take Khir for example. He accused me of being a “racist”. When I retorted that my column does not touch on race, religion or politics, his so-called substantiation nearly caused me to fall off my chair.
“You don’t write about temples on state land. You don’t write about scrap metal dealers occupying road reserve,” he said in apparent reference to Hindu temples and scarp metal dealers in Selangor who are predominantly Indian. “But one Umno container on a playing field you write … We build hawkers stalls on road reserve, you write …”
Firstly, I told him I was unaware of such things, but he retorted: “Tak akan you tak tahu!” Am I supposed to know everything that’s going on in the state, especially with the habit of public officials classifying routine matters as Rahsia or Sulit?
And I told myself that it would be an exercise in futility to argue with someone with that kind of thinking and that level of understanding of the media and the English language.
http://sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=21108
And I thought he had been forced to leave, and was joining the Malay Mail. Maybe, Vincent Tqan has had a change of heart after the GE elections.
Thks Jed. Enjoy reading yr blogg and all the above comments. Wondering if poss. let’s get an official, personal interview ‘one to one’ with WCW - a good avenue for us to vent our frustrations straight in his face AND for him to share his views. AND this will be a HIT for all netizens to tune in….MSM Media ‘KICKING BUTTS” heehee!
Seriously, would this be a possibility - interview with WCW, VKChin and Josceline Tan. Let’s see if they are brave to face up to this? Anyone can help here??
Tks.
I shall try my very best. 
He has a ‘blog’ too but it’s filled with his articles in the papers. Check it out: wongchunwai.com
Not sure, but his column keep coming out. Word is that he is out, maybe he will join PKR new paper. Just guessing lah.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. After ALL that he wrote about Anwar and PKR? Ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA…
Jed, I think, we should request all main stream newspapers to devote a column or some printing space for bloggers or netcitizens views and discussion. In that way chicken columnists could of course be allowed more liberal standing as the net represent the malaysian middle class views which the new minister of propaganda acknowledged today as hugely influenced their kampung ma and pa, tok and nenek not to vote BN recently.
They do have some liberal columnists like Azmi Sharom in Star and Brian Yap in NST. But these two writers are giving the papers what little credibility that it has. Bloggers have the web, and it’s the future. Just look at the developed countries. The BR’s victories despite the MSM spin shows how ineffective they are now. Hopefully people will switch to The Sun or Edge which are more impartial. In this information war, truth is a premium.
In my opinion, the MSM did unwittingly contribute significantly to the trashing of BN in GE2008.
The writers took us as fools and fed us with sewage in their attempts to portray the Opposition as demons and traitors. They conveniently hide the fact that the Opposition has every right to coexist with the Government of the day because they are after all, His Majesty’s Opposition.
The WCWs of the world and the puny pseudo political analysts whipped up such a frenzy that became counter-productive and insulted the intelligence of the rakyat. Hence, thanks to them many fence-sitters decided to place their bet on BR.
WCW and those minions will never change.They will persist in magnifying the slip-ups of BR-controlled States and downplay BN glaring wrongdoings as more and more shit pops up to the surface in the coming days and months.
Though one may sense a tinge of ‘mea culpa’ in their rubbish, it is not because they are contrite, but because of the real threat of a mass boycott and therefore they may soon join the ranks of the unemployed and the need to peddle their scurrilous skills elsewhere!
I continue to read the MSM not because I believe in the bunkum they churn out but because I want to see how low they can prostitute themselves in the gutter press that employ them.
Well said.
“magnifying the slip-ups of BR-controlled States and downplay BN glaring wrongdoings”…YUPZ. Like that huge photo of Chong Eng crying etc. Why didn’ they play up the UMNO crisis at the Cheras branch? Or even the Shahidan revolt when he was nominated with LOTs of photos?
I read the MSM cos I have done so since young over breakfast. But am slowly changing my habits. I bring a mag or novel these days.
Hope to see you again.
I do not know why but lately everytime I see Wong Chun Wai’s face, I puked. Maybe it was the newspapers.
Hmmm. It’s quite a bad picture. But not everyone is a Husam Musa.