And the real winners are: Mainstream Media

Yea, the truly real winners of every Perak fiasco caused since January. You people are truly truly, the real contributors to what has happened over in Perak.

Oh no, I ain't talking about the journalists, they may have decided on the news angle from the start that they found the correct angle to attack on the Perak situation, but the last one to talk are the editors. I guess the editors themselves have found their way to edit the news so that in a way they were targetting the ruling party in Perak.

And they won. They officially won. BN will now take over Perak, and soon, every mainstream media will be joyfully overloading their news with more political biasness.

Everywhere in my office, RTM1 was blaring with great delight, the situation of Perak turning into their desire. They don't need to edit any freaking scenario to make them look like they side with BN. They practically show it live on the spot. What is there to edit? Everything is coming into place. The Sultan of Perak knowing his "big" gut, surely had adhered and adored the BN administration. Why not eh?

The Mainstream media has won, for their efforts to become the doctors of spinning. Spin to the way that the Pakatan Rakyat were viable to attacks and the citizens themselves became wary of their tactics. Spin to the way that everything was Ngeh-Nga's fault, spin to the way that the Indian MPs do not get the treatment they deserve. And they finally did it.

The biggest victory of all, was the stopping of reliance onto blogs. Suddenly, you stopped seeing them trying to extract blog post, transcripts that are available online. They finally revert to their old ways, spinning, plundering their way into the citizen's mind to remind them....Bloggers are individuals, they do not represent you.

It's just sad isn't it? Their voice to reason, their voice to balance, just came to a standstill. Suddenly, with the power of money, everything makes sense. Why the sudden direction has turn into another way, why were they so daring to show their biased heads. Suddenly, that 90% fully BN coverage re-emerged.

Now, with one more state back in the hands of the power, they have more reasons to cheer, more reason to be frank with their political agenda, more reasons to be biased and not getting subjected to ridicule.

They are finally back on track.

I don't dare to say that the company I work in is extremely neutral, but when we saw the newsflash, our face fell. Each and everyone of us in the newsroom. But we still resumed to our schedule. The editors still rushed to make sure they know that such a thing really happened. The journalists in the room had to call those from outside to recheck facts and send it in for the editors to read.

I wonder if the company I work in will become the only mainstream media that will not succumbed to criticism? Or will it?

But for now, the mainstream media won the political agenda. BN should really thank them. They were the true slaves for you.

Here I would to show you what did Russell Peters say about the Media for his stand-up comedy:

I kinda blame the media for what's going wrong with the world right now, cause they kinda perpetuate stereotypes about people. They don't tell you that's what you were doing, they don't go "hey this is what you need to think", but then you know how people's brains work. What they do is that they enforce all this shit you know? What they do is that they'll show you an image of somebody, of a different racial background, and then they'll show you, an alternate image, like right away, something completely different. They don't say the two images are together. They kinda present it like "What do you think?" *shrugs*

Like what they do is that they'll show you an Asian guy and a car accident, *shrugs*

They show you an Indian guy and a 7-11, *shrugs* "What do you think?"

They show you an Arab guy and an explosion, "I KNEW IT!"

But that's what they do, they convince us that things aren't what we think, you know. And all they do is they kept showing you different Arabs and all the violence, they never show you Arab people doing their regular Arab Things.......

(For more please go check his latest comedy Red, White and Brown)


I concur. And I've been seeing that sort of alternating image.

PKR men are quitting almost everywhere, with BN men's smiling faces.

"What do you think?"

The victory goes to the mainstream media.