Is the NST saying that this is fiction? (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)

 

The Malaysian government-owned New Straits Times says that Malaysia Today writes fiction and tries to pass them off as non-fiction. Is the story about the two missing RMAF engines actually ending up being sold to Iran and not stolen as alleged fiction? Is the second Statutory Declaration signed by a Chinese underworld figure reproduced below fiction?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

RAJA Petra Kamarudin’s reign as king of Malaysian “gutter” journalism is still smouldering but only in his belligerent website, Malaysia Today, where legions of fanatical fans drool obsessively over his outlook and dross on who’s who of national politics.

It does not matter what RPK postulates or who he assumes hostilities against: his prose is read and commented on with the fixation of piranhas devouring a hapless prey. 

RPK has long dropped pretentions that his works are solidified by ethical journalistic standards. His mantra is to write whatever is plausible as long as there are enough suckers who believe in that plausibility.

True or false, right or wrong is not a cause, only an inconvenience. His legionnaires devour his stuff as the gospel truth anyway; with some commenters appearing to be bordering on being certifiable.

You don’t look for rational debate or constructive criticism in Malaysia Today but if the blood and gore of politics is your preferred hors d’oeuvres, RPK’s thoughts and his rabid following are the bottom feeders chomping on each other’s contentious existence.

RPK is the expectorant of such atrocious chinwag that you’d think that he was hammering away one political thriller after another on his laptop on the same wavelength as Frederick Forsyth or Robert Ludlum, only that he deludes himself into thinking that his manuscripts are non-fiction. (Read more here).

Is NST saying that Malaysia Today writes fiction? What would you call the Statutory Declaration below then? This is the second SD from a Chinese underworld figure that Malaysia Today has published thus far. Further to that, there were another half-a-dozen SDs signed by police officers. Yet the AG and IGP have remained silent and have not responded to it.

 

 

 

 

Translated into Chinese at: http://ccliew.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_5135.html