Friday, August 20, 2010

Breakfast without Jamal

To a lot of Malaysian, the 988 morning program, "Hello Malaysia" (早点说马)is part of their breakfast. The program, especially the Chinese speaking Malay DJ, Jamal is very popular among the Chinese community.
And today, Jamal was dropped with the reason that the his comments had influenced the security of the country. Furthermore, his comments on race relations also made other race feel unacceptable.
The latest news reported that 2 top management staffs and Jamal partners in the program, the 3 DJs had been also forced to take leave until investigation completed.
We might not fully agreed or believe all says by all these DJs, but they willing to provide a room for discussion, for debate and a room where the whole Malaysian are free to talk their views.
Nowadays, People want to talk, sometimes the Leaders need to listen. Are we going back to earlier days that only 1 person think that he is the most capable and will do all the talking and others just listen and follow.
Good luck to the parties leaders that still think like that old man. You may removed the person from your control media but you can not removed all other platforms like in Internet world.
Anyway, we will have a kopi "o" breakfast from tomorrow without 988 until the dark sky become clear.
Work harder, fellow Malaysian.

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