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developed state leaders are not worried about free press nor criticisms.Why KT needs to muzzle the people giving true feedback. Didn't Pak Lah says he wants to hear the truth and has big ears. KT should do the same but he wants to hide things and say Semuanya OK!!!

Developed state maybe but not developed leader.

I'll stop reading sun if this becomes how the sun is going to work!!!

Damn! Without the journalists like Nadesan and Terence, the Sun is not worth the paper its printed on.

Fat lady sings at last for the Sun.

Star, Sun all gone. Maybe its the turn of the Rocket or Moon now? :)

cakap sahaja ada TELINGA BESAR (Telinga Gajah la), dah panas tak tahan dia jadi telinga TIKUS.... sempena tahun Tikus!

Ini satu pembahruan yg tak patut di buat untuk meraikan Tikus Tikus yg gemuk gemuk makan tak habis anak cucu 7 keturunan!

Anak2 orang kampung banyak yg tak cukup makan, share share lah sikit.... jangan nak lahap semua Toyol!

it would be much easier for us to boycott the stupid sun papers if ever they take this route. And if every journalists only care abt their own rice bowl then i'll say "MSia be damned!". If bus drivers can stand united I dont see why journalists cant do the same for the sake of the country. Maybe KT and AAB can write their own news. And we dont really care if KT says he didnt get any Botox injection into his crystal clear face!

The Sun, with this boot licking act, has just as good as signed its own death warrant. No difference. The Sun will close down and soon and Toyo has no worries from the Sun. But, Citizen Nades and Terence Fernandes are still around. And if Toyo thinks the demise of Sun have saved his backside, think again. I will bet Citizen Nades and Terence will hit him even harder from another angle.

Can't help thinking of Zakaria Deros rolling on the floor laughing....

If Zakaria Deros or any other of Nades and Fernandz's subject matters get renominated, it would be better that The Sun closes down as obviously it would have failed miserably as a paper.

Jeff, reposting on the right post
TheSun is setting as it is no longer its natural self. Not only there is theSun-Toyo deal, Zam has been watching observing theSun. If we recall in Aug 07 last year there was this outburst from Zainudin.

"the Chinese and Malay newspapers are fairer to Malaysia than certain English newspapers. "To say that theSun newspaper is a champion of Bangsa Malaysia shows that Dr Lim Keng Yaik sympathises with the newspaper which has all this while fought more for (the DAP's) 'Malaysian Malaysia'

More details in previous post at
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/08/lim-thesun-fairest-newspaper-zam-no-it_29.html
The timing of the takeover was also to cater for the coming GE and the new focus is now more pro Abdullah pro BN. See today's & yesterday's on-line theSUN headlined stories - Feb 13 (Cabinet meeting won’t be last: PM; MCA: More to step down; We’re not slow to act: Najib); Feb 12 (RM5b for SCORE; University boost)

And the latest causality is NO immediate same day reports on the Royal C I like in Day 15 on the shocking disclosures by Lingam’s Ex-Secretary that she took RM3000 from an ACA officer as a "reward or award?), there was a direct “intercom” link from Lingam to Vincent Tan’s office, cakes & flowers sent, NZ trip was planned with Eusoff, Lingam’s brother was “not MAD but BAD” etc
More details & pics at
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2008/02/shocking-disclosures-day-15-rci.html

From CNN (1336, Feb 13): "Malaysia's prime minister dissolved Parliament Wednesday, paving the way for general elections that will test his declining popularity amid complaints about inflation, crime and ethnic tensions. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made the announcement at a hastily convened news conference, with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak standing by his side."

C: 'What are they doing, Neil?'

Neil: 'Post-acquisition clamp-down, which is of course a more complicated version of post-merger integration. The i-bankers will do it with their wharton-designed techniques. Here, they just go in with a machete from a 4th floor storeroom.'

C: 'ok, how does that jive with what your PM has so solemnly said to the whole world - that he wants to know the truth, however bad it may be? There seems to be something wrong here. Toyo is Selangor MB, right? The Selangor MB sits in Badawi's cabinet, right? Badawi said he wants the truth, no? The Sun has unearthed truths, yes? If The Sun has not unearthed truths, the billboards, deros palace, fumigation monopoly, junket trips, overspruced city-hall compounds, kickbacks, loaded licensings, close-two-eyes enforcements, deforested hills that Badawi himself saw from a helicopter, even the funeral parlour, are all just mirages made up to rile the rakyat for fun, no? Have the mirages of Saudi Arabia relocated to Malaysia, Neil?'

Neil: 'Easily explained. This PM wants to know the truth and everything but the truth so that he can say how competitive we are.'

C: 'Ah, your country's semuanya ok tagline, i presume.'

Neil: 'in this country, anything goes, so long as it is aligned to whoever thinks he is in charge of law, order and harmony, defined to the cause of maintaining such status quo contributive to the continued positioning of the same power holder as sole distributor of feel-good opiates for the delirious masses. You see, they want to maintain the order to create real disorder.

Heck, i can't believe i could actually say that without blinking.'

C: 'What a country! what leadership! what citizen service level! Sheer dynamism! Admirable beyond compare, if i may say so myself.'

Neil: 'I think Mr Rambo will moodily and decisively disagree. Last anyone saw him, he was hammering another piece of metal.'

C: 'Seriously, Neil. What's going on in your country?'

Neil: 'i don't know, C, and frankly i shouldn't care anymore. Why should i care anymore, gimme one damn good reason, C.'

C: 'Because you still have something inside you - like that man born of a wehrmacht sergeant and a red indian scout. Something about sensitive intelligence muscled with deep feeling for the rakyat alloyed to a sense of indignation about what people have done so unjustly not only to this nation, but also to the rakyat, even to themselves when they disrobe from their own emperor's clothes or napoleonic tunics at night.'

Neil: 'wow, if you want to put it like that! What's the reward?'

C: 'But i am surprised you have not asked the most obvious question about this development, Neil.'

Neil: 'i am a blur sotong today, C. The blood has moved elsewhere from the head. What should i be asking?'

C: 'Humm, i think the question should be this, and it's a very simple question:

What is the real meaning of nationalism that Umno wants from all Malaysians when it can coax a second-generation ex-javanese to muffle the true journalistic role of a popular free newspaper that has exonerated itself as the last bastion of truth in true service to the nationals of this country, such sacrificial and career-risky work embarked upon by the sheer sweat, frustration and tears of fourth and fifth generation MALAYSIANS?'

Neil: 'blood still south, come again?'

C: 'Why does Umno and its cabinet not intervene to stop the javanese in all but name from pressurising Malaysians not to tell the truth about poor and bad service to them? Clear enough?'

Neil: 'ah, that. Maybe Umno and its cabinet have found a new definition for globalization.'

C: 'how so, Neil?'

Neil: ' Globalization shall henceforth be defined as the fulfilment of the interests of your personal domain by whatever (it takes, thanks Mr Bush), including the use of portrayed allegiance and loyalty from foreigners given license to rule on behalf of your mandate. And damn be to your own people who want to find out why they have not been invited to the cityhall AGMs where accounts are to be passed that will give carte blanche power to (mis)use those funds, again, all of which came from the TAXPAYERS and rakyat.

And incidentally, that's how they're going to win again using votes parlayed from treasonous free citizenship given by the dollops to illegal immigrants into S&S, which todate remains unexplained right in the face of the rakyat, observe you.'

C:'And why do you think they do that, Neil?'

Neil: 'There are two schools of thought on this.

One, if i hold power, and the situation is really worse than what i have been telling my voters, i would of course make sure that they continue to think it's all hunky-dory, buying time for me to try and solve the challenges. Furthermore, so much of the solutioning will depend on investment inflows, and since i have announced very big projects which however remain too quiet of progress todate, i must therefore continue to increase the frequency of feel-good so that the wavelengths of the voters will be attuned to only my fm radio. Any other channel? decrypt and attenuate them - because truth is relative, service is voter-dependent, and votes are everything.

The second school of thought is this: go back to the first school of thought.'

C: 'ah, are you saying they want to control how bad things are released to the rakyat? Like, through their own mainstream media, so that the most appropriate words and phrases are used, just enough to prompt some changes here and there, but not enough to raise temperatures for real transformations?'

Neil: 'I don't know, it could be that they're thick and thin skin at the same time.'

C: 'how so?'

Neil: 'they're thick skin when told they're bad by their own kaki's acting in concert and pretence, and thin-skin when told they're bad by others over whom they don't have control, even if those others have more integrity.'

C:'Maybe they should start using some of those men l'oreal skin care products.'

Neil: 'But they're not real and decent men in the first place, C. It's all in the soul, C. Whatever's outside, whatever you construct to try and have a telephone line to the Unseen One to get the 'inspiration' to do the 'right thing', is contingent upon what is inside you in the honesty-box in the first place. If one takes it as a game for personal survival, it's only paying lip-service to good service. In the end, the rakyat get cheated, you lose your own sense of dignity, and the chance to do the really right thing passes on, never to come again. The buck should stop where it was never to have left.'

C: 'Neil, you're getting incoherent; you should stop taking those coffee laced with sildenafil.'

Neil: 'No, C. I am completely lucid. And this one's for Nades and his team. This country has again taken away one of the remnant highlights of my overly-long days. That adds one more reason why i should go away.'

C:'Where do you want to go, Neil, the burmese-thai border? Let me try and persuade you otherwise.'

Neil: 'i just want to leave with a small word, and that's for those like Nades who continue to plod on believing in the good of our past lost in the bad of our present - and it's this:

When the Unseen One puts you to the test, He is preparing you for higher responsibilities.'

C: 'That's deep, Neil. Attribute?'

Neil:'Someone who takes his daily exercise without fail, smiles all the time, and has a positive attitude to everything life throws in his way.'

C: 'Oh, i thought it's Confucius.'

Neil: 'Close enough - Confucian scholar and entrepreneur.'

I suggest Steven Gan of Malaysiankini open up his coffers a bit more and take in Nades and Terrence as investigative editors/reporters

If that happens, i will open up my coffers and subscribe to them.

Anyone with me?