{"id":1171,"date":"2008-11-18T13:41:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2008-11-18T19:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:01:48","slug":"messaging-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/18\/messaging-matters","title":{"rendered":"Messaging matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the pitches these articles give. Tell me if you get different messages from them.<\/p>\n<p>The Star says <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/11\/18\/nation\/20081118134826&#038;sec=nation\">Govt has stopped paying petrol subsidies: Shahrir<\/a> and The Malaysian Insider says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/malaysia\/12622-malaysians-are-now-paying-petrol-tax-\">Malaysians are now paying petrol tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian Insider has 28 comments at the time of this writing&#8230; Interactivity. Something traditional media should look into?<\/p>\n<p>To remember in the future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cAfter the station operators take their margin of 12.1sen and the oil companies take their margin of 19.1sen, we are left with RM1.69 from RM2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the refinery price is RM1.30 per litre for example, the Government will be taking 39sen per litre as revenue.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Messaging%20matters&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2F18%2Fmessaging-matters&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Tell me if you get different messages from them. The Star says Govt has stopped paying petrol subsidies: Shahrir and The Malaysian Insider says Malaysians are now paying petrol tax. The Malaysian Insider has 28 comments at the time of this writing&#8230; Interactivity. 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