I saw the news few weeks ago yet I kept forgetting to blog this up to my place. As my perception, I think it is a necessary to talk about this issue, this event maybe. I took all these photo from Malaysiakini.com in order to make my piece more colourful by putting up those pictures.
As you can see from the picture above, the people were reading newspaper up side down, one even put the TV tool on his head. What are they doing?In fact, with World Press Freedom onward, they were having a protest(Sport Reading Mainstream Newspaper Upside down -translate from mandarin), to against media self-censorship, to "bebaskan media". Mainstream media nowadays tends to be more biased and pro government in their news report as the result of ownership and political economy control (political economy theory..haha). This has seriously threaten the credibility and reliability of the news nowadays and curtailed our right to access to the issues, as well as our freedom of expression and speech.
As a student of Journalism, we understand the structure and the hidden fact in the media industry, but not the common public,not the average people. Public who did not go for higher education, they do not understand the fact. They always believe the newspaper, as it is the only path for them to access to news.
Some young people todays do not care of the society, the politic tactics, as well believe to mainstream media though they have a better way by going to internet news portal. The problem is, who in fact going online for news? Unless they play the role of MSN or providing games as what Facebook did.
As I think, we have the responsibility to uphold the media freedom, therefore protect access to credible and reliable news(truth).Only with the well educated (either with the academic or the news), Malaysia can have a more mature society and political environment.
The former NTV7 producer of Edisi Siasat(if not mistaken), Huang Yi Chung and TV2 《前线视窗》's producer, Zhou Ze Nan have joined the protest as well. As they concern of the media, they concern of the people's right. So why don't we?
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| (Left) Huang Yi Chung and Zhou Ze Nan |
As Huang said, the flashmob will be having the protest every weekend, in order to raise the awareness of the public towards the issue of media freedom, as well as to inform them the 528 media changed aniversary(528报变周年纪念日 ). As the information, 28th of May, 2001 was the day at which Huaren Holding took control of Nanyang press and the start point for politic interfered chinese newspaper.
For you who concern about the media in Malaysia, let's join the "celebration" together. Let's reject for the paper for one day. Let's stop watching news for one day.
P/s: Lucky me, I have got a chance to hear talk from Huang Yi Chung. Though I was sleepy that time yet I still manage to catch what he said that time. He is one who deserved for our respect for his effort in upholding media freedom.
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