Café Latte Chat: 3 and 1 and then some
UPDATES, Sunday Dec 2, 2007: Here is the transcript with video link.
Two BN Members of Parliament were seated cosy on one settee, this blogger and the Son-in-Law were separated by an independent voice sitting on another. Wong Chun Wai played moderator with a senior editor in tow.
That's the seating arrangement when we went into the studio of The Star's Multimedia Centre for the one-hour live taping of The Café Latte Chat Episode 2, Wednesday. The topic: Blogging, politics and the elections.
It was not really a BN 3 vs DAP 1 though we had Chia Kwang Chye (Gerakan), Wong Nai Chee (MCA) and the Son-in-Law (Umno) taking the Establishment views, and this blogger the way he has consistently been in the last five years -- as a non-anonymous blogger.
Media and political analyst Gavin Khoo Kay Peng provided the balancing act speaking as an apolitical academic, while Star Online editor, Raslan Shariff, gave asides as a journalist and new media observer.
Political writer Joceline Tan was watching it live. She spotted what socks the Son-in-Law wore that day. Piercing eyes. I'll see if I could get Zorro and her to do tea one day.
Journalists Royce Cheah and Paul Choo laboured on the transcript (thanks!).
Anti-Government vs Pro-Malaysia
It was a chat rather than debate, so that might be the reason why all three of us -- Chia, Wong and I -- didn't respond to what the Son-in-Law had tried nitpicking on the notion of 'Not (being) anti-government but Pro-Malaysia' vis-a-vis the non-Governmental communities.
The people's rallies and violence (by the police and protesters) were referenced in passing. But it would take another session to debate the rudiments of human rights and Democracy, that the country shall come first before the government; that criticising the government and replacing it along institutionalised methodologies are essentially processes integral in a democracy system. Your claims and actions will have to be consistently consistent.
Is blog influencing the elections? I paid tribute to PAS for doing what they did, and are doing, otherwise.
The transcript will be published in Sunday Star tomorrow, and the video version will be hosted on Star Online. Catch it if you can, and give us your comments. I reckon it wouldn't be difficult to spot the ambivalent presence of active denials.
Episode 1, themed :Shrinking Chinese votes, was published last Sunday, sans the videos.
Comments
I read the first episode last Sunday and decided not to read the next sunday edition. Well, since you are in this episode 2, I will read it with an open mind again. Hopely it is impartial and not like the one-sided episode last next. I really hate JT's Norman Rockwell analogy. The episode 1 chats were so psychocentric.
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December 1, 2007 11:41 AM
I can't wait to view episode 2.
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December 1, 2007 02:26 PM
looking forward to it. thing is, why do they always get the SIL into the picture? isn't there anyone else? it must be because he is the SIL. we can forget about nazri & zam. how about shahrir? you know someone with a mind of his own and who is rational and coherent.
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December 1, 2007 10:56 PM