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NST questions WSJ’s ‘agenda-free’, ‘independent’ claims | Free Malaysia Today http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2016/03/02/nst-questions-wsjs-agenda-free-independent-claims/ …
2 March 2016 | MYT 7:51 PM
Home Ministry: Up to MCMC to take action against WSJ
KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry will leave it to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to take action against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for their latest allegation against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Its Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the next course of action was up to the MCMC.
“If they want to take action, they can do the research and go for legal action.
Dr Ahmad Zahid, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, said there was a hidden agenda behind what WSJ was doing.
“They are a foreign company, so I don’t think they will have a reason unless they were told to do so. They must have a reason for making those allegations, despite the Attorney-General having cleared the Prime Minister of all allegations.
“They definitely want to ruin someone’s reputation,” he said.
#COLUMN: #WSJ has no agenda? Not really… http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/03/130520/wsj-has-no-agenda-not-really …
OVER the past year, certain international publications have focused an extraordinary amount of attention on Malaysia.
In normal circumstances, we might be flattered that newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and The New York Times (NYT) devote so many column inches to our country.
But that would depend on their reporting being impartial, in line with accepted journalistic protocols and driven by the desire to inform readers of matters of importance to them.
What many of us have suspected, instead, is that the anti-Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak campaign have been using these papers as part of their politically-motivated campaign to topple the prime minister, not caring about the collateral damage to Malaysia’s economy, its government and its international reputation.
Now, evidence has come to light that suggests that this is the case.
Take WSJ, for example, and its Asia Economics editor Tom Wright. At the end of December, Wright was asked about his numerous and highly aggressive articles on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
He replied: “Our reporting is independent and, needless to say, without any agenda.”
Oh, really? If Wright had no agenda, one might have expected WSJ’s Asia Economics editor to have written about many subjects over the last eight months.
After all, Asia is a huge continent and home to many of the world’s leading economies. Surely, as Asia Economics editor, Wright would be tasked with keeping his readers up to date on a variety of business and financial topics and countries.
The Financial Times’s Asia editor, until recently, David Pilling, had written many articles about China, Myanmar, Asean, India, Japan and Singapore, as well as Malaysia, since July — just as one would expect.
Wright, on the other hand, had mostly ignored everything else that had been going on in Asia for the last eight months. Amazingly, every single article he wrote from June last year to last month was on Malaysia and more specifically, on 1MDB and Najib.
Not once has he turned his attention to other big stories in the continent.
A newspaper editor would never let his correspondent fail so dismally to cover his brief as Wright had done. How was he allowed to indulge in what appears to be an increasingly desperate obsession all this time?
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The paper has long been a key supporter of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and had published articles by Anwar’s American friends, such as Al Gore — the man who insulted Malaysia when he came here as United States vice-president in 1998 — and Paul Wolfowitz, a neoconservative who was one of the key architects of the disastrous US invasion of Iraq, and who later resigned as head of the World Bank after arranging a promotion for his mistress.
It is WSJ’s right to publish editorials in favour of Anwar if they wish to do so.
What they cannot pretend, however, is that they do not have an “agenda” when it comes to Malaysia, nor that their reporting has been remotely “independent”.
They have clearly been used as part of the anti-Najib campaign’s plot to undermine a democratically-elected government, with a disgraceful and biased series of articles that has dragged their reputation for accurate reporting through the mud.
Malaysia will not forget.
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/03/130520/wsj-has-no-agenda-not-really
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/03/130520/wsj-has-no-agenda-not-really
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ArtHarun Keluar UMNO Retweeted Tan Keng Liang
Ok. Can I ask you to provide credible evidence of mercenary writers are out to hurt Malaysia’s image pls. Thx.
ArtHarun Keluar UMNO added,
@Art_Harun @tankengliang Easy to accuse. Provide evidence. WsJ has credibility internationally. They are not fiction writers/)publishers.
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