Screenshots

Neither do I believe that Guna felt his life was threatened by the remarks. But counting the sequence from the day warnings were issued to bloggers, and being used to everything BN, I was expecting something to happen in the TRUEST OF MALAYSIA BOLEH spirit.

Malaysia Boleh! is all about creating laughters by portraying whatever you may name it!

In otherwords, Guna has succumbed to compromise. And you compromise once,, you compromise twice...what do the numbers matter? Fact is once you are compromised you are not your truest independent self anymore and become someone else's puppet. Well...so you got it...Guna the [ DELETED ] !

brother rokk, you know i don't usually agree with you but the comment you've shot jeff is spot on.

perhaps we should revive the national press club's committee on press freedom. with your ability to shoot your mouth from the hips, and your vast experience, you should be one to head it and make it effective. shoot man, i know it's tiring and thankless, but someone has to do it.

i also hope my bro kay tat sees your reasoning. It's useless (or, in Malay, tak Guna; pardon the pun!) to talk about freedom of the press when we know that most of us haven't done enough to encourage it.

bro, i read the Sun because it's been a good, free paper. but while it's free, it is not free. we confuse the ability to criticize and condemn the former PM as press freedom. guna still has a job because kat tat allows him to criticise Dr M in his articles. kay tat is still edge/sun boss because he is ALLOWED to use his newspaper to try and make Dr Mahathir look bad (and in the process make the PM look good). Who says it's OK to? The PM (which stands for Political Master, not necessarily Prime Minister) , of course.

If Abdullah tells all editors tomorrow that he wants them to treat Dr M with more respect, you think the editors will disobey him? No, bro. You and I have done that but, shoot, at the risk of angkat bakul sendiri, i'd say they don't make editors like they used to.

Is the Malaysian Society prepared for total Press Freedom? NO. It is already obvious that many Malaysian bloggers have appointed themselves as Crusaders for ‘exposing’ Malaysian Govt. ‘misdeeds’. The power hungry politicians of the Opposition parties & people with vested interests have started attacking the Govt. through these ‘righteous’ bloggers. Do we Malaysians have to wash our Nation’s dirty linen on the net for every political Mongrel, the likes of the Retard Bush & his Coalition of Dickheads worldwide to glee with happiness?
Journalism in Malaysia is in its infancy. Our cosmopolitan society cannot afford to make mistakes on the net, media or in speech. There is no shortcut to maturity. Hence, let us not get impatient with our Govt. policies but strive as Rakyat Malaysia for the Solidarity, Integrity & Security of our Nation. Does it make sense to some of our brain death citizen bloggers out there? Or has somebody given the order to 'shoot' them already?

To Bnaipal...
Your statement is CRAP yes in capital letters.
I have never heard bigger nonsence.
Malaysia has plenty of capable journalists, only they all left the mainstream media to pick up good jobs elsewhere, and it is absolutely NOT in its infancy.
Whats left in the mainstream media is a bunch of pen (keyboard) pushers who give a damn what they write, as long as they earn a nice living.
So go and defend your boss elsewhere!

The press have always been a tool for the rakyat to be informed of the governments policies and its effect on the country. We need the press to be critical of the current administration, the opposition and any political party to understand each of everyones position. If we do not have the right information, how do you expect the rakyat to make a well-informed vote in the coming election?

Of course, the mistakes of the government or any political party will be used by any parties, local or foreign to further their own agenda and probably undermine our country. But sweeping it under the rug and putting a veil of secrecy will not solve that problem. It only fester it.

If we hide all our problems and mistakes, how do you expect us as the rakyat, to refrain from making it again and to even address it?

The only agenda for any people who wish to hides their mistakes are only to further their own agenda and not to the benefits of this country or its people. That is a fact.

And beside, how can the rakyat be mature if we are feeded with only bias information from the government? Unless your definition of mature is to have a single thought like a robot.

"we have called for the resignation of politicians and even former kings from positions"

What was the position of Malaysia in the FIFA rankings (a) when the Sultan of Pahang became the FAM chief and, (b) what is the position today.

Who did the press called for to resign??

Dear Albert,
Your kind words depict the current standard of journalism in Malaysia. Need I elaborate more? And by the way, I do not live & work in a place where there is a 'boss' - It seems the remnants of Colonialism still reverberate in your gullible soul. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will prove highly beneficial to you in your current state of mind. Best of Luck with the recovery process.

bnaipal,

I love your eloquence. Perhaps Albert was in the same mode as the now infamous Ilmran when he asked someone to kill Guna. I'm sure he didn't mean it. It was just the emotional intensity that makes people say the funny stuff.

I have to disagree with you that Malaysian Society is not prepared for total Press Freedom. Of course we are. The problem in Malaysia is that the Press has never been allowed to be free. The editors simply will not allow certain viewpoints or dissent to surface lest their heads get chopped off, er figuratively of course. Over time they become a lame press. In my humble opinion, the government is at fault - big time.

The advent of the Internet and blogging gave people the opportunity to express their feelings rather freely and many people acted responsibly. Sadly, such people are in the minority and I agree with Jeff Ooi (even though I disagree with him on other matters like in "One Euro or One Ringgit...")when he says the quality of discourse has deteriorated. The incessant meaningless attacks on Guna, who quite obviously was trying to make life for Jeff Ooi a little more difficult, are good examples.

Citizens should have the right to question the government's shortcomings but more care is perhaps needed in Malaysia because of the racial and other sensitivities. I have no qualms when the PM says those who spread untruths (to rattle these sensitivities) on the Internet will be detained or charged or anyone who feels he has been slandered can take his/her case to the courts. The only problem is our cumbersome and severely backlogged legal system may not be able to take the strain.

bnaipal:

I don't know you, neither do you know me. But I do blog and I don't think you know bloggers well enuf to justly write thus:
"Do we Malaysians have to wash our Nation’s dirty linen on the net for every political Mongrel, the likes of the Retard Bush & his Coalition of Dickheads worldwide to glee with happiness?
Journalism in Malaysia is in its infancy. Our cosmopolitan society cannot afford to make mistakes on the net, media or in speech. There is no shortcut to maturity. Hence, let us not get impatient with our Govt. policies but strive as Rakyat Malaysia for the Solidarity, Integrity & Security of our Nation. Does it make sense to some of our brain death citizen bloggers out there? Or has somebody given the order to 'shoot' them already?"

First, bloggers as in any other field make up hopefully a normal distribution -- a few excellent, the majority mediocre and another few atrocious.
Second, "washing dirty linen" is for commenters like you who can't see the good of bloggers like jeeooi are doing on the Malaysian media landscape.
Third,"the likes of Retards like Bush..."?--the 'dickheads' encompass the ilk like thee, Sir bnaipal?

Third, "Infancy..." after almost 49years of Merdeka? Hey, it's a blardy 1/2 of yoyur lifetime if you live to 100, which I dearly pray you would so that you see the "outcome" of CRAP (Albert, pls DON'T SHOOT Desi for borrowing your mouth, I didn't fire any blanks!) citizens like thee&its progeny minus the contributions of the likes of jeffooi&Co:)

Fourth, "brain death citizen" is for Commenters like Bnaipal who think we are ":impatient" by writing about the problems facing NegaraKu and criticising the "elected" leaders, including the PM -- we are just responding to Pak Lah's request to the Rakyat "Talk straight with me".

I'll stop at four, in Chinoserie, the numeral can be pronounced "see" as some with eyes who do not SEE; or "Sei" to those people like bnaipal who label me as "brain dead" when I'm kicking and alive, still able to SHOOT at some "heads", Dick!:)

desiderata,
Thank you for ordaining the knighthood of ‘Sir’ upon me but my uncle V.S. Naipaul has accepted that so humbly from the Queen of England. I have not labeled every Malaysian blogger ‘brain dead’, but I mentioned ‘some of our brain death citizen bloggers’. With your zany outburst, you have made yourself a potential candidate of that obtuse class of bloggers. 49 years is an extremely short spell of time in history – many countries are still struggling with instilling the nitty-gritty rudiments of democracy even after centuries – the current state of World affairs speaks volumes of the tackiness involved in the progression. Pray, I do not live to be a 100 as I ‘crap’ everyday & I know the end result. I bear no ill will against you as you have, but ravaged your keyboard in a rage of delirium. Sleep well my dear friend as there is nothing a good night’s sleep cannot overcome. In retrograde, a visit to your GP for a prescription of 2.5mg Lorazepam will bring relieve to your tormented, crucified soul.

To Jeff,
Thank you very much for your web space. It gives me immense pleasure to participate & interact with fellow bloggers in your site.