Spinning The Gasing
By Simon Templar
Everyone's talking about how our local medias spin stories, propagandas and what is and what not. How many of you actually understand what a spin is?
Malaysians are a gullible lot. Most buy into anything as long as it is presented in a way which they think carry weight. Which is why professional conmen love Malaysia.
Malaysians are major suckers – skim cepat kaya, MLMs, pyramid schemes, bomoh tipu duit, feng shui master scams etc. are aplenty in Malaysia. (Embarrassingly I form the statistics too). We are so easy that we must be internationally known because even Africans from the most remote part of Africa are making big bucks right here.
Our local medias know us Malaysians best. They put up whatever serves the purposes of their political masters and chances are some Malaysians will fall for it. I have had enough of Utusan – so let us not even give them any form of coverage here. Let us look at Malaysia's best selling newspaper – The Star.
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