“Report is Public”, blares the front page of The Star today:
KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas has been publishing its annual report for the past 18 years and it is easily available, including on its website, said its president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican.
“We print 5,000 copies of the report every year even though [...]
99% of anything free runs on advertising. That much is true. I don’t have anything against adverts, heck I work for an advertising company and I go early for movies to catch trailers.
But intrusive advertising only serves to turn people off, a kind of reverse branding.
Straight to the point, from the newly redesigned (i.e. more space for ads ) Star Online:
Riots in Tibet? Time for DiGi!
Sunbear dies in [...]
Malaysiakini recently reported on a study by the Centre for Independent Journalism which analysed the election coverage by the mainstream papers:
According to the report, The Star was the most partial among English newspapers in terms of elections reporting in favour of Barisan Nasional (BN) with 63.12 percent its election reports being ‘pro-BN’.
The daily was also found to have had [...]
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I was going to go on a tirade about how a jellyfish has more backbone than all our papers put together, but I’m tired so this will have to do :/.
From NST:
IPOH: Some 50 people took part in an illegal rally at the Ipoh Padang here to show their support for the Sultan of [...]
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Linking to newspaper articles in a blog entry is very common, and encouraged – it shows you have done research.
Problem is that some newspapers and magazines “archive” their online articles. The practice varies from one publication to another. I’ve managed to find archived articles from TIME.com from all the way back in 1969 (!), for [...]
It’s very rare that I manage to score a copy of the Sun. Because it’s free, copies are usually snapped up quickly. That and the whole stigma of having front-page ads (or should I say ads as front pages?), publishing fewer pages than the norm, and being less “established”.
But hey, quality over quantity; don’t judge [...]
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