Saturday, September 19, 2009

Najib hails Utusan Malaysia

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak hailed the Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia today for its role in representing the absolute interest of the Malays, but however, he also urged the newspaper to also voice out the rights of all Malaysians.

“Utusan is known for its trademark and its trademark is to voice the desire of the people, especially the Malay community,” he said in his speech during a breaking of fast function at Sri Utusan Printing Complex here.

However Datuk Seri Najib Razak warned that the media must not only report ethically but also responsibly.

“I hope that we will not only voice the rights of only the Malay community but for the other races as well. When we want to defend rights (of a community), we must also discuss about responsibility,” he said.

He also urged the media to play an important role to shape the nation into 1 Malaysia.

“Media has the responsibility to help in the journey travelled by Malaysia.

The journey which seeks common understanding, openness in thinking. The journey which will also test our struggle.

“If in this journey, we bring chaos and sentiments without looking at the bigger perspective then the journey will go through many difficulties,” he said.

Utusan Malaysia has been criticized for ratcheting up racial tensions.

The Umno-owned newspaper was responsible for running daily stories criticizing DAP as anti-Islam and implying Anwar Ibrahim as a Malay Traitor. It also publish many articles which we observe could provoke racial paranoia and raise racial tensions among the various communities.

SOURCE: The Malaysian Insider

Najib's language in his speech was directed towards a positive redirection to re-educate Utusan. However, we wonder whether it can be effective.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aha...the cat's out of the bag!

Jefus said...
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Jefus said...

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“Utusan is known for its trademark and its trademark is to voice the desire of the people, especially the Malay community,” he said in his speech during a breaking of fast function at Sri Utusan Printing Complex here.

However Datuk Seri Najib Razak warned that the media must not only report ethically but also responsibly.

“I hope that we will not only voice the rights of only the Malay community but for the other races as well. When we want to defend rights (of a community), we must also discuss about responsibility,” he said.{..}

makes the rest of us wonder what kind of Malays are voting for PAS PKR and those living in Chinese majority communities who voted for DAP. The PM must further qualify his statement. Why bother making wishy washy statements with one leg on each boat? How many of the past by elections have PAS won lately? What happened there?

As long as there are as many people voicing dissatisfaction, no matter what race. PM must accept, there are many unhappy Malays and many unhappy non Malays as well. Endorsing UM will only eat away his credibility and it will show up in the polls.

This bigotry must be muzzled dear PM. It is not good for the country, it is not good for your tenure.

Do the right thing.

Singam said...

Whatever the case, we now know that Najib endorses the Utusan. Which means, what the Utusan says reflects Najib's real thoughts.

Nuff said.

Anonymous said...

can on lah people when pm said good things accept it apprreciate. Jangan asyik nak pandang dari sudut negatif. Whatever good let we support and whatever is not right let we againts. This is the task of all malaysian.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Najib is becoming Malaysian sick person already.

He needs help!

Anonymous said...

what's so good about supporting utusan that is so radical in its views?

Anonymous said...

ppl, he would be insane if dia condemns 'utusans'...ok ?

toolan said...

No way lah.....will never work. This is all Ramadan month lip service, you put him in a different environment with different crowd, his tone will be different again!