Is that journalistic black hole, The Star , about to explode into a veritable supernova of truth, fairness and fearless investigative reporting? Certainly that’s the impression that Wong Chun Wai, the Chief Group Editor of that dim and disreputable apology for a newspaper, seems currently at pains to try and convey.

Launching himself into cyberspace on May 1 with his ‘ New Malaysia ’ blog, he then used this vehicle on World Press Freedom Day to call for an end to all the evils that The Star and its competitors represent.