Has The Star paper became too arrogant??

The Star (after dictating what the readers should read) also wants to dictate what we should watch!

The Masked Reader

Fresh from proudly claiming itself to be the No 1 newspaper in Malaysia, the paper stopped publishing the local TV stations daily programs recently.

Instead, this paper chose to publish the Astro channel 728 daily programs in the same page, and suggested to the readers “what to watch” programs on local tv stations and or course, Astro.

Is The Star paper indirectly suggesting that we should suscribe to pay tv, and deem the readers who don’t as not important to them?

Maybe The Star has grown proud of its status as Malaysia’s No 1 paper, and forgotten it’s loyal readers who supported it all these years.

Most of the rakyat don’t suscribe to pay-tv, either due to financial constraints, lack of time or frustrated by the often repeated programs, and the increase in fees. We are fine with the local tv stations. But now its seems that The Star (after dictating what the readers should read) also wants to dictate what we should watch!

The Star should remember that, like Proton, Perodua (who divided the small and medium cc engine market between themslves) and Astro, they are NO 1 because there isn’t much choice for the rakyat to choose to begin with. People HAVE to buy The Star if they want to check out the latest property ad launches, movie listings, etc. There is hardly any such ad in the competing English newspapers. Therefore, most advertisers themselves have little choice but to advertise in The Star.

Maybe The Star should change it’s tagline from “The People’s Paper” to “The Arrogant Paper”.