The Truth or Grandeurs of the Other Truth

By Hakim Joe 

How in the world did MIC win at Hulu Selangor, let alone by over 1,700 votes? 

I submitted a simple letter to Malaysia Today, after a lengthy sojourn from writing, on the 18th of April, titled “What’s Wrong.” In it, I highlighted the lack of response from the MT readers, pointing out the meager comments that are currently posted to any one article as compared to as recent as one year ago. 

I made a simple deduction that this state of affairs could be contributed to MT’s membership re-registration exercise held late last year as the number of commentators kept falling from that day onwards. In my letter, I also made inference that this re-registration exercise has isolated a lot of old diehard MT supporters and that MT is no longer different from Malaysiakini – a privileged website. 

Perhaps it is the manner in which I stressed in the letter that the MT of old used to be a “take all comers” and that it should still be the way to garner support for the Opposition’s cause. 

The very next day, on the 19th of April, MTadmin wrote back and told me matter of fact that the readership of MT has gone up and they will not be posting my letter as “…it’ll give the wrong impression and is off the mark.” 

Great, I am so happy that more Malaysians are being educated on the merits of true news reporting instead of having to depend on the BN-influenced mainstream news. Additionally, this meant that more Malaysians are prone to supporting the Pakatan coalition. 

So, if the readership has gone up, how the Hell did we lose Hulu Selangor with Zaid as the Pakatan candidate?