It is right that PKR de fcato chief DS Anwar Ibrahim is considering legal action against Utusan Malaysia and TV3 for reports linking the Opposition Leader. I have also sighted other reports by Bernama and New Sunday Times plus The Mole.cpm which played up the "link" base on just a ONE-LINER from the Philippine Daily Inquirer which said an Opposition leader aligned with Anwar was involved in the the two-week-plus standoff in Lahat Datu which had seen two Malaysian police commandos dead along with 12 Sulu intruders.
I just read in The Malaysian Insider that an Anwar's special officer Najwan Halimi informed that the Opposition Leader had indeed referred the matter to his lawyers to prepare for a probable suit against the media involved.
To me as a newshound of some 30-plus years experience, there is NO BASIS OR JUSTIFICATION for these news organisation and/or blogs to extrapulate the involvement of Anwar even assuming it was true that a certain Opposition leaders had at any stage been involved. By ALIGNMENT or association with a purported offender does make the one aligned/associated with the offender culpable. Obviously these media are practising TOADYISM JOURNALISM. Aiming for another Datukship, Mr Editor-in-Cheap?.
Politicians and media in Malaysia are descending to NEW LOWS of civil behaviour and should we wonder why our country is facing a SECURITY THREAT? Yes, the people who should know better are looking at the wrong places for such threats. Even as I write, I have read just 10minutes ago another FIVE lives have been sacrificed at Semporna. Instead of identifying the real sources and causes of the nation's security breaches, the top players are fighting imaginary foes and creating "diversions" at a crucial period of Malaysia's history as we face the 13th General Elections in a few months' time.
May God save us from our leaders and self-serving media! Amen.
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