B e n s t a k e s

The main stream media (MSM) have been feeding us with lies after lies. And whenever they do not tell lies, they do not tell the truth either. We have seen how they spin stories in favour of UMNO and the BN.

Netizens of Cyberspace have had enough. They, especially The Peoples Parliament, decided to take some action and launched a "Tuesdays" boycott of the newspapers. It started with Tuesday 29 January 2008. I have joined in the boycott.

Was it efffective? I didn't know.

Then on Friday 1st February 2008, as it was holiday for Kuala Lumpur, my wife, Maria, went marketing at the open market in Taman Midah. And as usuall, she bought newspapers, the New Straits Times (we had given up on TheStar which we felt was more pro UMNO then the UMNO owned NST). As I was getting ready to go and witness the action (pix on right) termed "Biadab" by Abdullah Badawi, I picked up the papers and was reading the front page news.

Hey, wait a minute, it looks like I have read this news before. I then asked Maria "Did you get today's papers?".
"And what are you reading now?" she answered, giving me a piercing look. I then checked the date on the papers. Guess what? It was stated as Tuesday 29 January 2008. The papers they could not sell that 1st Tuesday of the boycottt was sold on the following Friday. 3 weeks later, Maria was given newspapers without charge and no questions asked when she told the vendor about that Friday. Was the boycott effective?

There has been minimal change, if any, on the part of the MSM. So now it is BOYCOTT for a whole week effective Monday 24/03/2008. Lets see how the MSM will react.


Peace