Did you realize the new trend in newspapers? They are now picking up blog posting and then they paraphrase or summarize the whole post as news. I mean come on!!! Blogging is not news. It's not even suppose to be a mainstream newspaper's headline! Nampak macam some reporters betul-betul malas nak fikir benda untuk dijadikan news.
If reporters really want to use substance in a blog as their news, they should have a special column for bloggers. Something like "Blogger's Corner" or whatever creative and tacky title where selected blogs can be used as reading materials with no authoritative value. Memangla some of the bloggers are very famous and you can see many people supporting their views / agendas / opinions etc. Macamlah dah takda benda sangat nak ditulis or dijadikan headline. I quote Nabil, the Raja Lawak, with some slight modification:
"Lu pikir la sikit bila nak buat kerja!"
See The Star Online at http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/6/nation/21753470&sec=nation
Fed-up blogger Rocky takes 48-hour break
“I am not going to blog on both Altantuya and Anwar because there are other issues to talk about,” said the blogger, also known as Rocky.
» It is making me fed up how real-life politics is being dumped on us in cyberspace «
“Filthy comments have been posted in the blogosphere. It is making me fed up with how real-life politics is dumped on us in cyberspace.
They are throwing dirt on each other.”
He also posted his intent to “go on strike” on his blog, http://rockybru.blogspot.com/ yesterday.
After the 48 hours, Ahirudin said he would set new rules on his blog where comments would be more strictly moderated and that he would post only important developments on the two issues.
The blogger, who constantly writes on political issues in Malaysia, added that the current two “hot topics” were not lightweight issues and it was wrong to trivialise them.
Another blogger, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, also expressed her exasperation over the matter.
»There are more important things in life, like how someone is going to feed his family « MARINA MAHATHIR
“I am fed up. There are more important things in life, like how is someone going to feed his family. There is just so much rubbish going around,” Marina said.
“I will not blog on issues that I do not know about. And there are people who insist they know what is happening.”
In her blog (www.rantingsbymm.blogspot.com) on Thursday, she wrote that she would go on strike and refrain “from reading the news”, being interested in what politicians were up to and the “so-called analyses of what’s happening by people who don’t really know anything”.
“I don’t know anything at all and I’m quite happy to admit that. And I don’t care to offer an opinion either.
“I just have more important things to do in my life. And I will blog about things that I hope will make us smarter, not stupider,” she wrote.
As though these two blogger's opinion represents the mentality of 26 Million Malaysians... Sheesh!!!
Blog adjourned.
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