YOURSAY | ‘If Malaysiakini's audience is really shrinking, the gov’t should be rejoicing.’

Nur Jazlan claims Malaysiakini a 'very biased' media outlet

Hopeful but Prepared: Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed, only the readers’ comments are biased, and this has nothing to do with how Malaysiakini reports its news.

If you wish to look at bias, there are many more news sources to look at, including The Star, New Straits Times, etc.

On the flip side, Sarawak Report, The Malaysian Insight, etc, are very biased against the government.

Malaysiakini is the worse example you can choose for biased reporting as their articles, tone, etc, are actually more neutral than even the Western media.

The only time you may find biased reporting are the clearly marked opinion pieces or when comments are posted as an article, and even these are clearly marked as such.

The only reason you are targeting Malaysiakini is because the lack of biased reporting lends them greater credibility, if compared with other news websites.

Abasir: Nur Jazlan is correct. Malaysiakini is indeed biased - incorrigibly biased on the side of facts as they present themselves.

Now, if only the deputy home minister can get this failing news organisation to be as neutral, professional and successful as Utusan Malaysia.

Nur Jazlan is again correct to say that China is a totalitarian regime - so totalitarian that PM Najib Razak went there apparently to ask them to bail him out of the 1MDB fiasco, and so totalitarian that it is now the most favoured nation for Umno's prime deals.

Sans Prejudice: If Malaysiakini's audience is really shrinking, the government should be rejoicing and watch Malaysiakini die a slow death.

Does this mean that Malaysians are then generally eschewing all forms of news media reporting because the sales of the apologist mainstream media have been on a consistent downward spiral since 2004?

Far from it, Mr Minister. Concerned Malaysians are not 'fatigued' with what Malaysiakini circulates about the ills that beset the nation. When the apologists dare not report the 'unpalatable' news critical of the government, Malaysiakini is there to fill the void.

Any regime worth its salt should welcome opposing views and opinions to better itself if it claims to be democratic and caring - which the leadership has been peddling abroad but has brazenly muzzled dissent and harassed the opposition and activists at home.

Vent: Nur Jazlan, you just don't get it, do you? That “China is ranked only seven spots below Malaysia at number 151, despite being a totalitarian regime known for its harsh censorship laws" does say a thing or two about this government. Being red-faced about it won’t help either.

As for Gambia, what can we say when even those blighted Africans are beginning to get their act together. You see, strutting on the world stage masquerading as a moderate of sorts doesn't help either in this age of pesky, intrusive global media surveillance.

And clearly, size doesn't seem to matter for the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. All that matters to it is the size of the transgression of press freedom. Got it?

Odin Tajué: Yes, Malaysiakini is indeed biased. It has to be. See, its operations are funded by Israel and the DAP.

This is according to a most reliable source of information. Which source seems to have forgotten that the Chinese and the Christians are also funding the news portal. And which source is somewhere 12,875km away due north-west-west of Malaysia.

As regular readers would also have noticed, Malaysiakini is exhibiting signs of news fatigue. It has been recycling the same things, notably the alleged thieving of billions from 1MDB-SRC by Malaysian Official 1 (MO1) and his sidekicks.

Much like Umno and its seeming obsession with sex, which body habitually uses sex, real or imagined, though mostly, if not all, imagined, to cast aspersions on figures it does not like, Malaysiakini is obsessed with flogging that stubborn ass that has refused to die.

Newspaper publishers such as New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia, which report impartial, totally factual news reports and articles, are doing very well. Their circulations have been shooting up and up.

That is why most of Malaysiakini’s reporters have given up and gone to work for them. Those that remain do so because they cannot find employment elsewhere.

And because Malaysiakini not only doesn’t pay them well enough but also delays in paying them their monthly salaries, they can be found selling nasi lemak and air sirap bandung - during office hours, mind you - to supplement their income.

Anonymous 2436471476414726: Nur Jazlan, the rakyat badly need an alternative media outlet for a more balanced news reporting.

The mainstream print and electronic media, including a certain private TV station, are pro-government and very biased against non-government political organisations and individuals.

These media are even prepared to employ gutter journalism by distorting news and views and demonising opposition political parties and leaders on a daily basis.

For a healthy democracy to take place, the government must not constrain alternative media outlets.

Thickskin: If Malaysiakini is biased, it would have closed down long ago. Instead it has a strong following of readers who pay for unbiased news.

Anonymous 2350931441161169: Nur Jazlan, please define "biased". Is it that as long as the news reported are different from the mainstream papers, these alternative news channels are biased?

Come on, talk like an ethical, professional and independent accountant, please.

Myop101: Wow, I didn't know that (Malaysiakini readership is declining). I guess I am one of those who still read Malaysiakini.

Sure, I don't comment as much as I used to but still, it doesn't stop me from reading, right?

Hang Babeuf: "Nur Jazlan claims Malaysiakini a 'very biased' media outlet." On the other hand, government media are not biased in favour of the government.

No bias at all there. Just the objective facts, told straight. As in Umno's Utusan.

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