{"id":1141,"date":"2008-01-19T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/19\/minister-asks-media-not-to-be-manipulated\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:30:08","slug":"minister-asks-media-not-to-be-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/19\/minister-asks-media-not-to-be-manipulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister asks media not to be manipulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n He said some newspapers had also become the tools of non-governmental organisations<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; does that imply that the media should be a tool for someone else?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Do not be manipulated by Opposition, media told <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/1\/19\/nation\/20064813&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR: The print and electronic media have been told to be responsible in reporting news and not be manipulated by the Opposition. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said the mainstream media must also be wary of certain Malays who allowed themselves to become tools to opposition parties and foreign political agendas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> He said that under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi&#8217;s leadership, the public had been given the opportunity to voice out their grievances but certain quarters took advantage of that freedom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n He said some newspapers had also become the tools of non-governmental organisations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Zainuddin said this during a media night with editors and journalists here yesterday.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said some newspapers had also become the tools of non-governmental organisations &#8211; does that imply that the media should be a tool for someone else? Do not be manipulated by Opposition, media told source KUALA LUMPUR: The print and electronic media have been told to be responsible in reporting news and not be manipulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133,225],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-isa","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}