YOURSAY Spontaneous outpourings of grief, huge turnout at wake, speaks for itself.

Karpal absent from most English, Malay frontpages

Apacerita: We don't need these biased and hypocritical dailies to tell us about the late Karpal Singh's funeral. We don't need them to tell us about the late Karpal Singh's contributions to the nation.

To tell the truth, I don't really know exactly what the late Karpal did for the country and its people.

The only thing I know is that our country has lost a courageous and great man who fights for the country and its people. I know that the late Mr Karpal has been unjustly detained under draconian laws because he dared to speak against the ruling party.

I know that his death has made me feel that our nation has one less courageous and loud voice to fight corruption and injustice for the people. I don't need them to tell me because I know.

Cry, my beloved country: Selective attention to events confirms there are those who are living unashamedly in a fool's paradise in a state of wanton denial. Keeping information from the public is the reason these have lost all credibility and respect of Malaysians all over the country.

It is likely that the thousands upon thousands of Malaysians from all walks of life who turned up to pay homage to the late Karpal Singh would not want a subscription to these partisan publications, if they are not already among its disillusioned subscribers.

Ace: The spontaneous outpouring of grief and the huge turnout at the wake and funeral is a slap in BN's face and clear-cut proof that the rakyat knew all along that the "suspensions" from Parliament, the "sedition" conviction, etc, were all crap dished out by a wicked regime that had victimised and persecuted Karpal all his life.

Such being the case, how can their boot-licking newspapers show the rural folk the humongous gathering of ordinary citizens (many of whom had not even met Karpal before) to send him off!

That is the clearest indication of both the belief and perception of the righteousness and sense of fair play of Karpal vs the evil and hypocritical manipulations of his political and judicial adversaries.

God Bless: Who cares? I only read online, let these papers die a natural death.

Zen: Don’t be unreasonable, and don’t expect other people to think the way you think. What is important to you might not be important to others. Don’t expect anything from other people. Buy your own Christmas present and you will be content in life.

Geronimo: To these Umno Baru-linked fellas, Karpal was a nuisance, an infidel, an insignificant politician, a pariah, Satan, a demon, without realising that none of them could ever hold a candle to this great man in terms of principle and integrity.

Paul Warren: RTM2 ran a few old still pictures together of Karpal with his family just before the 8.30pm English news yesterday with a bagpipe rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’ for a good minute or two.

In the news itself, it was about the fifth or sixth item and even then, they only showed still pictures of the wake, the ripped apart Alphard and that was it. (I only saw RTM2 to see what they would show. I hope no one is offended by me having tuned in to RTM2).

HERO325: Freedom of press is not only meant for Karpal or DAP supporters, it is for everybody. Newspapers have the freedom to decide what materials or items to be put on the front page.

Why must they follow what DAP supporters want? Supporters of Pakatan or DAP have the choice to read mainstream papers or not. But they do not have the right to teach other people what to print on the front page.

So what is the problem now? The problem is Pakatan supporters demanding other people to do what they like. Why are they so powerful? The whole campaign is just to make sure DAP wins the Bukit Gelugor by-election.

Anonymous$&@?: Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times and The Star by not giving any write-ups to Karpal on his last journey, clearly showed how immature, unforgiving and vindictive these government-controlled mainstream media are.

Most shameless of this group would be The Star newspaper. This is not the first time it is shirking away from reporting newsworthy events on the front page.

For the past few years The Star has been putting irrelevant headlines on its front page instead of news relevant to justice, transparency and accountability.

And the sad part is that the CEO of The Star is aware that its circulation has gone down because of biased coverage but is too scared to act. Newspapers should report the truth and do their duty to inform the rakyat, not cover up issues.

Sodom me Sodom you: When alive, Karpal was a fearsome tiger, now in his death he will be an invincible super tsunami. The tyrannical government of today will be blown to smithereens. Rest assured that he will join forces with Altantuya, Teoh Beng Hock and all those who fell victims to this evil regime. You just wait and see.

Commentable: Sad reflection of the way Umno has divided the nation, not just in terms of race and religion but also on political segregation. Looks like they really meant it when they referred to anything beyond their political herd as "their enemy".

Even in death, a political enemy, no matter the stature in the public's eyes, must not be given the significance worthy of praise, lest people from their own herd mistakenly cross over to the other side and hold allegiance there.

BRUCHAGA: This is nothing new. BN-controlled media cannot accept the fact that the late Karpal is an icon who stood firmly in the hearts of all Malaysians (except Zul Nordin and Nawawi Ahmad).

They cannot accept that such a large crowd from all walks of life came out in full force to bid him farewell. The BN-controlled media is trying to present to the kampung folk that Karpal's death is just another ordinary death. But today they are smarter than BN.

Anonymous_1396952283: Boycott. Boycott. Boycott. Hey. I was doing that for years. Nothing to shout about.

Q..!: We do not need the rubbish media to remind us about a great leader. By not reporting they lost least one day of good sales (I would have bought the newspapers to read about a great hero).

Karpal lives on in our minds, hearts, and souls.

Milosevic: Why begrudge our mainstream newspapers from following the blazing path set by patriotic newspapers such as the New Light of Myanmar and Pyongyang Times .

Most commentators here are going by imagined Western standards of fair and truthful reporting. Our truth-speaking ex-PM, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, just the other day called BBC born liars.

Everyone knows Karpal is in hell, his body is not resting in peace, no one showed up for his funeral in Penang, and if the alternative media shows otherwise, it is fiction based on sophisticated technological airbrushing, probably using Nelson Mandela's funeral and putting in Chinese, Indian, and Malay faces.

Malaysiakini is at the forefront of concocting non-events. Too many want to undermine the fascist path of Malaysia based on race and religion.

The government is kind to allow the pendatang and the alternative media for continuing with their antics, but people are overstepping liberal boundaries by asking the mainstream papers to lie and cheat as well…

Hmmmmmmmm: Future historians, when they research into the life of Tiger Karpal, will most likely quote this as the way the BN government treated him in his death.

Anonymous #07988903: These papers are only serving the interests of their masters, not the nation.

CiViC: And we all can be sure the name Karpal Singh will not be in any history books of Malaysia. If Hang Tuah can be erased, who is Karpal Singh?

Anonymous_3faa: Yes, just let them be. In this Internet age, more truth can be gleaned from social media than from government-controlled print media.

RSOH: Oh really? Haven't had time to read my nasi lemak wrapper today.

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