{"id":665,"date":"2007-11-16T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/protests-media-training-and-democracy"},"modified":"2007-11-25T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T13:51:45","slug":"protests-media-training-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/protests-media-training-and-democracy","title":{"rendered":"Protests, media training, and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, Kenny Sia over-did the &#8220;election&#8221; vs. &#8220;erection&#8221; thing. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysia.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/the_zam_rap.php\">transcript<\/a>, I would have thought was a joke, is actually true. So kudos to Kenny Sia for typing it all up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an Information Minister (Zainuddin Maidin), speaking to a television station, in that kind of language? Someone ought to send him for media training.<\/p>\n<p>Highly entertaining. Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1_GQ-K7P_w\">video<\/a>. I mean, I thought he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/07\/quick-notes-on-malaysia\">stupid<\/a> a few weeks back, just didn&#8217;t know he was <em>this<\/em> stupid.<\/p>\n<p>In the newspapers, there are some quotable quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/13\/nation\/19453633&amp;sec=nation\">Zam slams Al Jazeera&#8217;s coverage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"text\">\u201cThey also cited a blogger as an independent journalist when the blogger is actually a DAP member,\u201d he said. &#8211;&gt; referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffooi.com\/\">Jeff Ooi<\/a>, who in every respect is an independent journalist (isn&#8217;t that what bloggers generally are? I mean we refer to housewives [and to be politically correct, house-husbands] as domestic engineers&#8230;) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text\"> \u201cThe police only used water cannons and tear gas and did not shoot anyone,\u201d he said.  &#8211;&gt; <strong>shoot anyone<\/strong>? Really, who knew you could be shot for protesting. Well, maybe you can be in the current situation in Burma, or Pakistan, but in Malaysia? Shocking. <\/span><\/li>\n<li> Zainuddin said Al Jazeera should use its base in Malaysia as an opportunity to strengthen bonds with the West rather than to portray Malaysia as anti-West. &#8211;&gt; how is the video in any way, portraying Malaysia as being anti-West? Is the idea of democracy, a Western one? What is the West anyway? India is the world&#8217;s largest democracy, and its hardly located in the &#8220;West&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, its great to see Wikipedia being used to push truths (or untruths). Currently, as I write this, the neutrality of the article is being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:2007_Bersih_rally\">disputed<\/a>. Article in question: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007_Bersih_rally\">2007 Bersih rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oppressive governments, like the one in Malaysia, is probably really feeling the pain of the Internet. Blogs, video distribution, immediate distribution, rallies being organised via the Net. Wind back a decade ago, and I think the then-prime minister, Dr. Mahathir had no idea of the power of the Internet. Even then, the bungaraya and sangkancil lists were being run, and the early birds saw what was coming. Arguably, soc.culture.malaysia on Usenet was a good venting point for folk too. Yes, there was online political activism, before Jeff Ooi ;)<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/malaysia\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">malaysia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/information%20minister\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">information minister<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/zainuddin%20maidin\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">zainuddin maidin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/al%20jazeera\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">al jazeera<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/jeff%20ooi\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">jeff ooi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/DAP\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">DAP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/english\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">english<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bad%20language\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">bad language<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/media%20training\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">media training<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/democracy\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">democracy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/protest\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">protest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/freedom%20to%20protest\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">freedom to protest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BERSIH\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">BERSIH<\/a><\/p>\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%20Protests%2C%20media%20training%2C%20and%20democracy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F11%2F16%2Fprotests-media-training-and-democracy&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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