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When the news about Malaysiakini's purported sellout made its rounds, it riled everyone of the portal’s ardent and faithful supporters including myself.

It is not uncommon for 'suitors' to make their advances to control the likes of Malaysiakini and put the brakes on its free and open dissemination of information and news despite of tremendous constraints and restrictions imposed on it.

It was a great relief to know from the Malaysiakini management’s assurances that no such 'deal' is taking place or will ever happen in the future.

Malaysiakini has, from the beginning, been a source of independent and unbiased reporting of current events of interest to the general public. It has exhibited a great degree of professionalism and boldness to touch on even the most critical and sensitive issues that the mainstream multimedia feel is out of bounds for the sake of their operating license.

The public is intelligent enough to know what the truth is and can draw their own conclusions about a given subject and thus are not easily influenced by any adverse reporting, made for some personal agenda, which is quite common in most mainstream controlled mass media.

We would like to see Malaysiakini and the other independent news media continue to report without any fear or favour.

Malaysiakini can expect to be 'courted' from time to time and mostly it can occur under duress. However, we are confident it can continue to ward off even attractive 'monetary gestures' to serve its intended and visionary cause and give us an opportunity to express our views and thoughts about important events and occurrences that affects our daily well being and peaceful co-existence.

The electronic media is a very powerful tool today and access to it is gaining a lot of momentum worldwide, with a vast amount of information both good and bad available. Therefore, our sound judgment and mental maturity is required to accept what is constructive and beneficial and discard the rest.

Malaysiakini has set the pace for more independent media to blossom to keep proper track of the activities of officials elected and appointed to safeguard and protect this special and unique country.

Malaysiakini , please continue to do good work and do not succumb to pressure or temptations.   

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