NST’s Defamation Suit: Does NST has reputation?
Well it depends on who you talking to I guess. But let’s look at what ‘defamation’ means. According to Concise Oxford Dictionary 1-th Edition, ‘defame’ means ‘damage the good reputation of’. So its all about reputation. I would’nt want to talk about the other four individuals who had served legal papers on the bloggers, but lets examine if NST had any reason to believe it had a good reputation, hence the lawsuit. This is not going be long analysis but a very short and simple, so simple it you don’t have a degree in rocket science to came to a conclusion.
I guess when we talk about a reputation of a newspaper, it would have everything to do with.. well reporting news of course. A newspaper with good reputation would report everything that are of interests of every citizen. In this regard, NST should report major events that were unfolding within Malaysia although I don’t expect its reporters were able to cover everything… but it should not miss the major ones that are affecting average Malaysian. The case of toll protest is a good example. Now you can say this could lead to a political debate but I say, put politic aside and lets see this from journalism point of view.
The toll-hike protest at Cheras was organized by Protes - a coalition of opposition parties, civil society groups, trade unions and student groups (you wouldn’t expect the protest would be organized by BN coalitions would you? In fact do they have balls to even talk about it publicly?) and had been publicised days before the event. There was no way NST journalists didn’t know of any existence of it. If there were any of them said they didn’t know, I would have sacked them if I were the owner of a newspaper company because obviously they are not real reporters. On the contrary, I can bet my last dollar that the reporters from NST and other mainstream medias were there to cover the entire proceeding.
Now, can anyone please tell me and the rest of the world, did NST publish any news and photos of the toll-hike protest which according to Malaysiakini…,
Force, violence, brutal’ were words attributed to police action by those injured at yesterday’s anti-toll hike protest in Cheras….
It is a shame that a major newspaper like NST (and other mainstream media as well… but that’s another story) actually did not have detailed press coverage of an event that had scores of people arrested and some of them were even injured. Is this event not siginificant to NST? I remember NST was one of the newspapers that had published long and detail news about the toll-hike and now it doesn’t publish detailed news about the toll-hike protest? Why? I will let you answer that.
Back to the question of reputation….. do you think NST had a good reputation by not running the news about the toll-hike protest? What is the agenda behind it? Who controlled NST editorial? I rest my case.
Malaysian Bloggers maybe down, but we are not out… CJCM
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