Guess who’s coming for dinner? Well, I’ve listed a few items as categorized below so as we’ll try to have an intellectual discourse on the matter.
ZM the politician :
Zainuddin proposes classification of Web bloggers.
Isn’t this another way of saying “register” which AAB said the government have no plans of doing.
..classify web bloggers as professionals and non-professionals as a mechanism to prevent mis-use of blog sites.
Hey, I know a 16 year old blogger who has a better understanding, analysis and suggestions for our economic woes than some cabinet ministers. Heck, he can’t even vote yet. Where do we put him?
..classification will also facilitate the action to be taken against those found to have violated the country’s laws.
So you’re trying to regulate blog content through legislative means. Btw are you giving monetary rewards to bloggers who write supportively for the administration?
We have to control this….By right, there should be a mechanism to control this phenomena.
See, there you go again with this control mechanism thingy and by right does not mean it’s your right alone. I thought you people believe in concensus as building blocks for a vibrant democracy.
..important in enabling the people to determine whether they could trust a certain matter and whether the blog content was the truth or a rumour.
There are people who really want to trust the government and they read blogs to verify the news reported in MSM. Are you suggesting that these people should read blogs first and then, confirm the facts with MSM reports? And if you decide to pass a law on this matter, can you trust the people to abide?
ZM the journalist :
Placing trust in news based on rumours was a practice that existed before the advent of newspapers but the situation is different today when we have newspapers and television stations to disseminate information.
Geewhiz! How did the people, back then, know about independence day being held on 31st August’57. Most of them, I believe, were illiterate, hence would have relied on word of mouth to know about such an event or fact. Hmm..it would be embarassing to be ‘merdeka’ if nobody knows about it.
ZM the businessman :
..blog sites having an impact on newspaper circulation and the buying of advertisements….
Ahh! I see it now. It’s about the money, isn’t it. Well, I happen to have these statistics which were published in the Star on 3rd April ’07 showing the Q4 numbers for 2006 :
Star – 1,474,000/1,136,000
NST – 512,000/339,000
Sun – 336,000/176,000
Malay Mail – 135,000/61,000
Source – Synovate’s Media Atlas/Nielsen Media Index
ZM ad nauseam :
Read last para – http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/printable.php?id=260283
Don’t get classified but please get registered to vote in the next GE.
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May 6, 2007 at 4:56 am
Daily Nibbler
Read between the lines: No dissenting views allowed unless it concurs with MSM.
On the bizzy side, the mainstream newspapers world over are countering drop in circulation by going online. Only MSM going online considered “professional”? The problem in this country is only few willing to subsribe.
The only way then is to curb alternative online news, blogs, etc. But can they?
May 6, 2007 at 11:05 am
kerp
as always zam is trying to be smart but will only make a fool of himself with his retarded suggestions. that isnt news to me.
i remember uncle zorro’s take on this dude. it was hilarious.
so come on datuk…RTM needs more attention from u maannn……….
May 6, 2007 at 3:12 pm
nuraina
shar,
you know better than to take Zam seriously.
by the way, you’ve gotta learn to link sites.
May 6, 2007 at 7:06 pm
rockybru
the last para deserve a separate story altogether. i think this is the first time that the star’s readership has more than doubled the nst’s. it’ll be three times higher than the former broadsheet in no time. i wonder how kalimullah sleeps with those stats .. and look at the malay mail’s readership. sigh.
back to earth, bro, you are right there. pro or non-pro, it’s another attempt to register. is zam defying the pm’s orders? or did the pm ok it quietly and saying something else to appease the masses?
nuraina’s right, to0. learn to do those links. i used to buy my bro TV Smith jugs just to learn the littlest think from the master. for you, my bro, i’ll accept mugs.
cheers.
May 6, 2007 at 10:03 pm
politikus
*waves*
🙂
May 7, 2007 at 7:28 am
Anon Fm. Miri
Shar,
FOC for you brother. Anytime we can do online. Use to do tat wef my client. hi.hi..hi.. 😉
June 12, 2007 at 10:53 pm
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Hmmm…this is a strange one. Could it be the one. Coded message? Maybe it is, maybe not. Or perhaps, someone is trying to open the back-door for later coz moderation is turned on. I like mind-games. Let’s wait and see, shall we, folks – shar101.