Personal apology to party boss? The NST on Mukhriz...
Has anything changed when Brendan 'Albom' Pereira was supposed to have left the Jalan Riong newsroom by November 30 and his Group Editor position relinquished to successor-designate Syed Nadzri Syed Harun?
Apparently not, if you were to take the December 1 edition of The NST into account (see PDF here).
In the story bylined Adrian David, Mukhriz Mahathir was reported to have been let off with a stern warning after he apologised to the Umno Youth executive council for making a remark that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's presidential address at the Umno general assembly last month as a speech that "contained nothing new". The NST story further reported that:
Umno Youth will arrange for "Mukhriz to meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi soon so he can personally apologise to the party president and explain himself.
Apparently, The NST did speak to Mukhriz to come out with this entry:
Asked why it took so long for the exco to meet, he said it was to allow Mukhriz sufficient time and space to prepare himself.
Mukhriz said he regretted his actions and was glad that his explanation was accepted. He added that he was not forced by anyone, including his father, to speak out against Abdullah.
Asked why he took so long to apologise to Umno Youth, Mukhriz said he was told to give his side of the story at yesterday’s exco meeting.
"I now wait to meet Pak Lah to personally apologise to him.
"I have no further comments."
However, a Bernama story on the same subject gave a different perspective:
Hishammuddin said it was decided at the meeting that Mukhriz meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also Umno president, to explain the issue. [...]
Meanwhile, Mukhriz, when met by reporters later, said he concurred with what was said by Hishammuddin.
Asked what was he going to explain in his meeting with Abdullah, he said: "Let that be between me and the prime minister."
Reading from Bernama's story, the issue of Mukhriz having to offer a personal apology to the party chief did not seem to arise. And all vernacular newspapers I scanned through had carried the same vein as in Bernama's.
From the horse's mouth
To clear the doubt, I thought I had better check with Mukhriz and get it from the horse's mouth on what actually transpired. And this is what Mukhriz told me:
It's intentional misreporting (on the part of The NST). None of the other newspapers reported that.
When asked (by reporters) what I would say say to him (party president Abdullah), I said: "That will will be between me and him."
Rocky's Bru must be vindicated now that he has asked: "what ethics and self-respect when the mainstream media and the official mouthpieces lied and plagiarised?"
Comments
Mukhriz told you "It's intentional misreporting (on the part of The NST). None of the other newspapers reported that."
but what is the point of telling you this if he not going to go any further? Like suing NST for instance for making him look like a real pussy! It is not easy to show libel here. But that Mukhriz will not do, not have the balls to do and will not do as well la, when he should. After all NST has served his father and family well for 22 years and, who knows, in due course it will once again start to serve Mukhriz and his family well. So forgive them for these little incursions to transitioning or what ever la.
Posted by: Observer
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December 3, 2006 11:32 AM
Mukhriz told you "It's intentional misreporting (on the part of The NST). None of the other newspapers reported that."
but what is the point of telling you this if he not going to go any further? Like suing NST for instance for making him look like a real pussy! It is not easy to show libel here. But that Mukhriz will not do, not have the balls to do and will not do as well la, when he should. After all NST has served his father and family well for 22 years and, who knows, in due course it will once again start to serve Mukhriz and his family well. So forgive them for these little incursions to transitioning or what ever la.
Posted by: Observer
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December 3, 2006 11:32 AM
Folks
All this shadow play (waying kulit) of UMNO and UMNO Youth with the newspaper, NST owned by them, is just wasting your time and mine to read about.
It is nauseating... simply because it is prepped-up nonsense treated as news.
They are just stirring in their own juice and expect Malaysians to be bothered about.
I say, let them stir in their own juice and we focus on other more substantive issues that affect the country.
This is just UMNO's internal nonsense that hit the national headlines. Why should that be? For you and me having to buy or read NST about UMNO's internal feud that has little to do with the good governance of the country? Except to further erode UMNO's credibility to manage the affairs of the nation.
Posted by: Frank&Honest
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December 3, 2006 12:59 PM
Whatever it is, the mumbo jumbo is just what it is & wasting everybody's time
Posted by: toniXe
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December 3, 2006 01:23 PM
Jeff, I think it's very mischievious of you to insinuate that things are just as rotten in NST under the captainship of Syed Nadzri.
I'm sure you know very well that datelines for the NST are actually of the previous day. So, a story in the Dec 1 edition would actually have been written and edited on Nov 30. Therefore, the 'intentional misreporting' on Mukhriz, which came out in the Dec 1 edition could still have had its editing directed by someone other than Syed Nadzri.
JEFF OOI says: I didn't say it was Syed Nadzri who executed the editorialising stance on Mukhriz. It's The NST as a whole that calls for scrutiny. Given a chance, I will ask Syed Nadzri what actually happened when there comes one day I get to see him. But if you do see him ahead of me, please update us what you find. Get it from the horse's mouth, will you? In this case, I got it from the person whose words were reported differently from all other papers which saw print.
I know you have issues with the NST, but for the sake of fair reporting, I think you should condemn only where condemnation is due, don't you think?
JEFF OOI says: Having been confirmed the facts, I did just that. And all the time, I believe its GEIC Hishamuddin Aun who has the final authority to call the shot in the final copy before it went off-stone. No?
Posted by: andria
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December 3, 2006 01:28 PM
frank&honest -- i completeely agree with your observation that most times the NST, esp Frontpage, serve up NOTHING but propaganda-ganda-wang-anda UMNO style.
Eg the edition of Wednesday, November 29, 2006 I observed it frontapged "Two Pages of Nothingness" blaring into page 2 with headline:
(Quoting whoelse but Elegant Silence, who should have remained so...)
"Complaints! promises! criticism!"
Now I'm going back to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZland and leave these Monkeys and their Sandiwara; my only lament these Idiots and bloodsuckers charged us RM600million for being enforced spectators!
Class action anyone to SUE for the retur of that taxpayers' money? Maybe TengChangKhim may lead us to do that -- also tear down Datuk Z's "small" house?
Posted by: desiderata
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December 3, 2006 01:30 PM
I have been reading and subscribing to NST since 1976....
Today, I decided enough is enough!
I have cancelled all my future subscription to this Not-So-True newspapers.
Posted by: PenangWang
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December 3, 2006 07:18 PM
This is not manipulation or misinterpretation of new... It's total bullshit.. putting words in someone else's mouth. How can we trust news reported in the newspapers? Is anything true in the papers ? Thank God for Malaysiakini, Malaysia Today and Screenshots!
Posted by: robin hood
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December 4, 2006 12:11 PM
Why would he need to apologise in the first place?
All he said was that he himself thought that Pak Lah did not raise any new issues?
A man is entitled to his own personal opinion, is he not?
Posted by: aput83
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December 4, 2006 01:56 PM
AAB openness is not openness at all, his version is ...open to criticise anybody but him.
It is Mukhriz opinion, and don't you think he has the right to an opinion.
I tend to agree with Mukhriz that what AAB is nothing new...just "cut and paste" last speech and change some other portions of the speech.
Looks like in UMNO there is no freedom of speech to criticise the leadership but freedom to wave the kris like mad men.
I just wait and see how long UMNO will last.
Posted by: art chan
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December 4, 2006 03:09 PM
I have given up on the NST several years ago, when it openly, without shame, became the mouthpiece of the BN, and specifically, UMNO.
So I couldn't care less about some of their rather stupid headlines.
I am not surprised they did creative news making, not the first time, not gonna be the last.
Posted by: limeuu
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December 4, 2006 05:44 PM