Pakatan Rakyat Calls for Boycott of Utuasan Papers

For inciting racial sentiments and biased reporting against PR leaders.
But there is acknowledgement by Parliamentary Leader cum PKR President Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail that the rest of the MSM (mainstream media) are showing signs of opening up, and giving more balanced coverage to both Opposition and Barisan Nasional parties.
Way to go, to those Fourth Estate members moving in the right direction. For the "delinquent" ones like Utusan, pray the Editors there see the light.
What light, you ask? Ask the ordinary reporters inthe Utusan Group -- they know best!

From the star.com.my:

Tuesday May 27, 2008 MYT 11:45:07 AM

Opposition: Boycott Malay papers for fanning racial hatred


KUALA LUMPUR: The Pakatan Rakyat alliance has called for an immediate boycott of Malay newspapers Utusan Malaysia and Mingguan Malaysia for what it said was unfair reporting and for allegedly fanning racial sentiments.

In a joint statement issued at a press conference in the lobby of Parliament, Opposition leader Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the mainstream media had shown signs of opening up since the results of the March 8 polls.

However, many publications still gave wider coverage to Barisan Nasional and its component parties, while stories on Pakatan Rakyat tended to be full of distortion and misinformation to discredit the alliance parties and their leaders, she claimed.

The Parti Keadilan Rakyat president was accompanied by alliance members DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PAS deputy president Nasaruddin Mat Isa in reading out the joint statement.

Dr Wan Azizah said the worst were the two aforementioned newspapers, which she claimed unfairly criticised and demonised Pakatan Rakyat leaders.

She also alleged these publications were always trying to provoke narrow ethnic sentiments, "clearly with the intention of creating anger among Malays against Pakatan Rakyat component parties."