Just received an email about this..just in time for a little tea break :)The picture above shows US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama giving away the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage to Malaysia 's Ambiga Sreenevasan at the State Department in Washington , DC.
Have you seen this in our local Malaysian news? NOPE! Have you heard about this news? I must admit I didn't really pay attention although I may have heard / read some mentions about Ambiga. Nor did I pay any attention the subject matter. Apparently, this picture made it to India Times!
Ok..I am ignorant, I admit. Can I blame it on the system? Why is there such little coverage on such a proud ocassion? It was said that only The Sun published the news ..in a very small column with no pictures. Can I blame the system for not educating us to pay attention to greater issues? Rather than focusing on minute matters like say...picture of MP sleeping in her own bedroom?
Lemme do a little homework now..who is Ambiga Sreenevasan?
GOOGLING.......................
Malaysian Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan is a high-powered, high-profile advocate for good governance, democracy, and human rights.
Elected in March, 2007, Ms. Ambiga is the second female Bar Council president in that organization’s history. Six months after assuming her leadership, she organized the “March for Justice,” in Malaysia’s administrative capital, calling for judicial reform and investigation of a tape allegedly showing a key lawyer fixing judicial appointments and judges’ case assignments. Her public actions, and an intense lobbying campaign, led to a Royal Commission and a finding of need for corrective action...READ MORE
Hmm..now..I know why she wasn't popular in M'sian media scene. Such....*out of words to express my disgust* towards M'sia's one-sided media scene.
Of course no coverage la, after all she is not from the BN camp. That is why only Sun has a story on her
ReplyDeletei think i saw this news on the newspaper... but not sure which one (definitely not The Sun) ...
ReplyDeleteI agreed with PPL .. I saw this some time ago ;)
ReplyDeleteChinese newspaper more 'open'
ReplyDeleteno ... I saw it in English newspaper
ReplyDeletehaha..of all things PPL is so interested in this topic.
ReplyDeletewas there any picture?
aiya...didn't read paper ah...it was in almost every local paper la...including the umno run paper....did you buy the paper or not???hahaha
ReplyDeletewsl....yes it was in nst and star with the same picture....and another one as well....
ReplyDeletesorry ka...my mistake. leson learnt..never trust those forwarded emails :)
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