local media making me Tu-Lan

i have a close friend with whom im in daily contact who told me that of late i looked and behaved rather iritated.

why not "tu-lan!!"

i start and end my day by reading the newspaper. and i get so iritated because of the unfair coverage of the coming election. this is to be expected la since NST, Berita Harian and Utusan are owned by UMNO and The Star the MCA. however you still feel that there should at least be some journalistic integrity among the editors.

the media seems to overhyped the fight going on within and among the opposition parties namely the DAP. tell me where in the world when there is an election, the individuals from among the same party wont jostle for the right to contest a seat. it happens everywhere including BN. the only difference is that the local media tends to blow out the issue whenever it concerns the opposition.

the BN also have their own in fighting (eg: Kayveas PPP claims for taiping seat despite the people not wanting them, PPP claims for more parlimentary and state seats, power struggle between Perlis MB and his UMNO konco, MCA veterans 'advised' to withdraw, Kelantan UMNO all fighting for a parlimentary seat and not a state seat, Gerakan candidates figthing for the Penang CM post, Langkawi UMNO against Mahatir's son contesting there etc etc....

whenever the opposition has a disagreement on seat allocation its called as "in-fighting" or "power struggle." but when it comes to the BN its all about "lobbying." way before the PM announced the dissolution of the parliment, you always read of BN leaders coming out and saying, "don't lobby" or "stop lobbying" or "lobbying is unhealthy." this just shows you how bad the in fighting within the BN circle is.

if the news articles are not enough, even letter to the editors are inundated by letters from pro-BN readers and sms-es. in the 2004 general election, BN might have won 199 parlimentary seats BUT they only managed to win 63.8% of the votes with the opposition garnering 36.2% of the votes or 20 seats. so if you are going to publish politically motivated letters there should be equal proportion to it. but no anti BN letters are ever published. None. how not to be iritated like tat.

in the Star, they even published 3 letters, from this guy called victor chew, all of them condemming the inefficiency of the opposition. have any one of you tried sending a letter to a newspaper for any reason at all?? do you know how hard it for your letters to get published due to space constraint. but here we have a pro Bn individual having 3 of his letters published in a period of less then 2 weeks during the election period.

KNN!!!