For today’s ‘shrill’ TV news has understood something its critics haven’t Malaysia is aspiring and not just to buy designer shoes and emulate the powerful, but also to access news that truly empowers ordinary lives. With a sudden profusion of media, Malaysia’s citizen wants to know everything, and not for vicari-ous thrills.
Faced with corruption, ineptitude and criminality, the citizen wants to know how to live with dignity and hope. MALAYSIANS wants to draw courage from others and offer sustenance to them too to connect to a community bound by middle-class ideals, which, in the previous obsession with patricians and proletariats, was completely overlooked.anti-corruption movement weren’t spurred on by TV. These emotions — disappointment, grief, hope — exist tangibly around us.
And living in an interconnected world, where American drones, Chinese dolls and EU visas impact her life, she wants to know exactly how India’s policies are made. Old TV discussions, involving chatty camaraderie, don’t touch this need but ‘shrill’ TV news, with daily stamina and occasional skill, presents emotions, ideals and demands that do.
What is behind Najib’s fear of offending Sharizat, I wonder? What logic is it that a PM can condone a former Minister, whose family is embroiled in a scandal amounting to RM250 million that rightly belongs to the rakyat, by accepting her as his special officer. How special is ‘special’ beats me! And, followed by such question such as “Why are you so interested in her?” made it more amusing. By the same token, he should also be asking “Why are you all so intent in the Scorpene/Altantuya scandal?”. right?Najib is full of shit himself, litrally. That’s why he’s afraid to speak up. This is what happens if we have a PM that’s full of shit. Malaysia is losing its voice due to a tainted personality. umno must realize that, and realize quick. Pick someone else as president!They’re very shrill, but they’re not anchoring TV news. Instead, they’re critics sharply criticising television discussions for giving shrill thrills whenever Mahathir fires at Najib or a politician crosses an ethical line. As TV anchors prepare arsenals, critics also craft lofty columns about Outdoor Broadcast vans winging it to the borders or wars raging inside newscasters’ heads. They thus reveal how they’re stuck at a centuries-old version of news, unable to understand powerful new changes underway.
Former Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has broken her silence on her appointment as a women’s affairs adviser to the government. this question, dosen’t Najib know that she cheated RM250mil of Malaysian taxpayers money? Isn’t she a bitch with no diginity? As the amber’s of the 250 million fiasco have not been put off. the public are now put into a position where they have to fork out more finances. What else have been promised beside the salary and perks in exchange for her loyalty at the coming elections. It looks like Wanita UMNO have no capable leaders but rely on rejected politicians. There must be a dearth of capable Umno Wanita that PM Najib has to face criticisms for trying to resurrect the waning political career of Umno Wanita chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. Her political life spiralled downwards due to the scandal of National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) whereby her husband was involved. Shahrizat must be a great asset to Najib; otherwise he would not take so much trouble at great risk, in getting her to be retained at the helm of Wanita wing and possibly later to be included in the cabinet. Has she much influence with the voting Wanita delegates that Najib are wooing? It looks like it, taint or not. Najib first appointed her through backdoor after 2008 GE when she lost the election. Even when NFC scandal hit the headlines her cabinet post was reserved for her when Najib unprecedented stood in as the Women, Family and Community Development minister. rejected by the people Another thing I would like to add, what can this cow ex-minister contribute to our country beside more curi curi.
Najib is so sacred of the ‘old horses’ in UMNO as they are the one that will turn on him in the next party election. So, dare not sack, cannot do anything until his own seat is secured. A very sad man.
Rosmah holding one of his Ros Otherwise SHE SQUEEZE………, then our PM is finished!!
Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jali “I am the adviser at the Prime Minister’s Department,” she said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider today.
It was obvious that Najib did not want another party Wanita leader to outshine Shahrizat. Former Umno Wanita deputy chief Kamilia Ibrahim was the only leader who dared to criticise Shahrizat and see what happened –she was not selected by Najib to stand as parliamentarian in the recent GE. She contested as independent and was accordingly sacked from Umno. This is feudalism at its worse –protecting their elite groups. The rest of Umno members are either vassals or fiefs.
Her first appointment in 2008 was made by then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi after she lost her Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat in the general election that year.
Shahrizat, who has been Wanita chief since 2009 when she defeated Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, will face a challenge for the post from former Puteri Umno chief and Pengerang MP Datuk Azalina Othman Said at the coming Umno polls.
She was appointed a senator, followed by a Cabinet position the following year.
She stepped down as minister last year after the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) controversy erupted and did not contest in the 13th general election in May.
simply picks up on this pulse and gets its act together, presenting an emotional nation inside a studio.
Against a backdrop where mandarins and manholes both impact lives, a shrill TV show doesn’t reflect its creators’ lack of imagination or their ratings race. It reflects the far greater failures of politicians, bureaucrats and public services — everyone taxpayers pay — to do their job. Why quibble at righteous indignation there?
