Time to Free the Mass Media

By Kee Thuan Chye

May 2013 TALK-TALK ONLY
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Journalism as a career is not an easy one in Malaysia. The mass media structure within which journalists work does not encourage them to live up to ideals they all know they should have. On the contrary, they fail their calling to serve the public and end up handmaidens of the powerful.Tears came to my eyes when I was watching a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr recently. This always happens when I watch programmes or movies portraying the struggle...

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Kee Thuan Chye

is the author of the new bestsellers Unbelievably Stupid! and Unbelievably Stupid Too!

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