Maybe it's just me, being away for so many years from home, seeing and reading everything from a distance, through a 3rd person eyes.
Every day, I usually make an effort to read newspapers portals (pro-and anti-governments) over the net--just to keep abreast of issues at home, in particular education-related matters. Such raised news that made it to the front pages usually have high fidelity with my soul. Perhaps, it's because I'm very much a campaigner of a better education for deserving children of Malaysia.
Sadly, in recent years it has become very much politicized, to its core that it just completely turned me off. I feel the same way as reading rubbish comments on how the work of literary Interlok being riddled with 'racism' and what nots to reading the latest new-found sex tapes allegedly involving some political figures. These kind of things (sex tapes etc) are not suppose to make it to the front page for our children to read at school. If you're to ask me why not, I'll tell you straight in the face that you might as well allow public screening of any porn videos in cinemas, as much as you want to publicize (or character assasinate) a person (or a group of people) bedroom antics in national newspapers (and the Parliament!).
It all comes down to what our mentals are curious of. And at the moment, it seems like our news room are feeding us with junkies that will not contribute to empowering national development, improving economic standing, reducing poverty and crime, to list but a few. Rather than engaging in discussions that can lead towards betterment of English proficiencies and competence of generations of talented Malaysians globally or how to tackle the rising cost of living of average Malaysians, for example, people in the higher echelon of the House prefer spending time watching smut videos and that too at the expense of the citizen time and money.
We cannot allow such trivialities making their way to the top of the country's priorities and dumbing us down along the way.
Comments: In the recent natural-disasters affecting the world, when tens of thousand people died, cut out of basic necessities, unaccounted for, I find it befuddling that inconsequential matters like smut videos printed in bold, huge fonts on the country's newspapers frontpage.
Every day, I usually make an effort to read newspapers portals (pro-and anti-governments) over the net--just to keep abreast of issues at home, in particular education-related matters. Such raised news that made it to the front pages usually have high fidelity with my soul. Perhaps, it's because I'm very much a campaigner of a better education for deserving children of Malaysia.
Sadly, in recent years it has become very much politicized, to its core that it just completely turned me off. I feel the same way as reading rubbish comments on how the work of literary Interlok being riddled with 'racism' and what nots to reading the latest new-found sex tapes allegedly involving some political figures. These kind of things (sex tapes etc) are not suppose to make it to the front page for our children to read at school. If you're to ask me why not, I'll tell you straight in the face that you might as well allow public screening of any porn videos in cinemas, as much as you want to publicize (or character assasinate) a person (or a group of people) bedroom antics in national newspapers (and the Parliament!).
It all comes down to what our mentals are curious of. And at the moment, it seems like our news room are feeding us with junkies that will not contribute to empowering national development, improving economic standing, reducing poverty and crime, to list but a few. Rather than engaging in discussions that can lead towards betterment of English proficiencies and competence of generations of talented Malaysians globally or how to tackle the rising cost of living of average Malaysians, for example, people in the higher echelon of the House prefer spending time watching smut videos and that too at the expense of the citizen time and money.
We cannot allow such trivialities making their way to the top of the country's priorities and dumbing us down along the way.
Comments: In the recent natural-disasters affecting the world, when tens of thousand people died, cut out of basic necessities, unaccounted for, I find it befuddling that inconsequential matters like smut videos printed in bold, huge fonts on the country's newspapers frontpage.
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