When the royal commission of inquiry into the Lingam tape has completed its proceedings, a theatre company could have actors re-enact the proceedings before paying audiences.

Perhaps we could call the performance, ‘A Right Royal Farce.’ It would not only be a box-office hit in Malaysia, it would sell out in London and Broadway theatres as well. To be sure, it would put Malaysia on the world map (but for the wrong reasons, of course).

Since we excel in information and communication technology in ‘wrong’ ways (such as software piracy, music and video piracy, credit card cloning and so on), why don’t we try to use our technological abilities to excel in ‘right’ ways? (Even though we’d still be highlighting our other wrongdoings.)

Budding creative content producers could make animated versions of ‘A Right Royal Farce’ dubbed into multiple languages and featuring localised characters to better relate to audiences in other countries and cultures.

After all, despite what's been said about the ‘borderless-ness’ of the Internet, language, culture, likes and dislikes remain very much local. So to succeed, content creators must customise their content to meet local conditions.

Anyway, we Malaysians should be thankful to have such local entertainment delivered to us daily in our tabloids, which truly live up to the age-old tradition of sensationalist gutter journalism. Like their British ancestors, they give sex, scandals, sports and sensation to readers who don’t want to stomach more intellectually stimulating content.

It was my A-Levels English language teacher John White who described British tabloid journalism in that manner and I've remembered what my good and wise teacher taught me more than 30 years ago.