Guangming suspended for 2 weeks; TV3 untouched
The government has suspended Guangming Daily (evening edition) for two weeks, from Feb 16 through March 1, for publishing on Feb 3 a picture-in-picture caricature which was deemed insulting Prophet Muhammad.
The order came from PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also Internal Security Minister, reports Bernama.
TV3, which allegedly showed the offending caricature carried in Sarawak Tribune, which has since been suspended indefinitely, remains untouched.
Comments
First it was Howsy's ONE word: sandiwara.
Now it's universally shouted TWO words:
DOUBLE STANDARDS...
What do we do? Wee....!
I Say Amen.
Posted by: desiderata![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 14, 2006 10:02 PM
There it goes...
The smaller guys were suspended.
The big guys remained unscatched.
What a world?.
Posted by: durkheim1![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 14, 2006 10:03 PM
Blatant double standard! But did anyone of us actually saw the thing and able to capture it as a proof?
Posted by: geovanni![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 14, 2006 11:07 PM
Picture-in-picture? Is that when they take a picture of a picture of the cartoon?
Double standards, what else is new? China Press, Sarawak Tribune, now Guangming, all penalised for doing their job.
Posted by: hann![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 12:23 AM
May the force be with the bloggers? Let's hope that we won't have 'najis and kencing' and 'laman web dajal' exposes for now...
Posted by: howsy![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 12:47 AM
After the printed media the next in line will be the bloggers who provided all the links to the cartons. And who is the first one?
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February 15, 2006 12:54 AM
AAB always practise 2ble standard la. Ajihnya parai jampat.
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February 15, 2006 12:57 AM
Suspend GuangMing and leave bigger boys like Astro unscathed ?
No .. not that I like to see Astro similarly suspended for 2 weeks for inadvertently broadcasting those caricatures (in the same manner as that published by GuangMing) in their relayed news bulletins but this suspension is ridiculous.
We are not stopping hate. We are stopping news.
Thank God (& the Western World) we still have the internet.
Posted by: mikewang![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 02:47 AM
Corruption is everywhere...
Batu Api is everywhere...
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February 15, 2006 03:53 AM
AAB... BOOOOOOO!
Posted by: streetz![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 09:02 AM
A picture of a paper with cartoon > a picture of cartoon. Fair?
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February 15, 2006 09:35 AM
hey, latest news-break, blogger mates!
The Star report today says GuangMing Daily has got an AFTERNOON edition! Guess it will give Malay Mail a run for its money (tho the languages are different!) -- an afternoon daily that's on the BF table with the rest of the morning papers.
See - our 4th estate people have given us NEW definitions of AM, PM -- no wonder Malaysians' engrund is so goode!:(
Posted by: desiderata![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 03:06 PM
Call it double standard or better no standard. It is reckoned that if punishment is to be metted out, the same must apply no matter who they are! Selective punishment is what we see today. O.K. it is wrong to publish whether picture in picture, the same standard must be given. We never grow out of this quandary!
We have failed again to think out of the box. We always keep our thinking within the box. How can we progress to what we call Vision 2020!
Posted by: peterpan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 15, 2006 05:10 PM