KINIBIZ The 13th general election may have been a distant memory for some but not so for Tiger.

What a gripping but short-lived campaign period it was. Thanks to the nation’s many media outlets, both print and online, Tiger was definitely one of those you would call a well-informed voter.

But not everyone was as quite as lucky to have access to a wide spectrum of media outlets. Tiger laments the quality of the information coming from those suspect newspapers with biased reporting.

Tiger knows it is now a good five months down the road but is revisiting the time he got his paw marked by indelible ink for the very first time because some interesting news has made the headlines.

Recently released Nielsen print readership data saw The Star, Malaysia’s most widely read English language daily, tumble in popularity along with the country’s standing in the World Press Freedom Index.

For the first six months of 2013, Nielsen reported a severe 19.8 percent contraction The Star’s readership. The Sunday Star fared even worse, shrinking by close to a third or 30.4 percent.

Similarly, Malaysia saw a precipitous fall in the World Press Freedom Index from 122nd place last year to 145th place this year, crashing some 23 places in the index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.

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This aritcle was written by Chan Quan Min.