COMMENT | “Do you trust the official media (RTM/Bernama) to give unbiased coverage on the Parliament sitting on May 18?”

The response to this innocuous question posed on social media yesterday morning was obvious – almost all provided answers in the negative. But at the end of the day, you have to ask yourself if opening the coverage to all would have made any difference.

Would you have got an accurate coverage if the mainstream media had been allowed or would you have wanted news portals like Malaysiakini to provide an independent, accurate and bi-partisan look at the proceedings?

It may be just conjecture, but haven’t you been seeing the return to the bad pre-GE14 era where the incumbent government had always been touted as a shining example of a democratic...