It is obvious that BN's propaganda is going at full-blast in order to shape the minds of the rakyat.
BN’s
onslaught in promoting themselves has really gone overboard. One only
needs to switch on the television these days and there is always some
advertorial (read: propaganda) on how BN has helped this person or that
person in his career as a successful entrepreneur besides the usual
advertisements promoting the 1Malaysia slogan.There is a glut of these BN advertorials between programmes that it is difficult to tell whether one is watching advertorials between programmes or programmes between advertorials.
The television stations should be renamed ‘BN TV’ at the rate that these BN advertorials are appearing on the screen and the only way to minimise watching them is to switch on the television right on the dot of a particular programme.
A friend of this columnist has mentioned that the purpose of watching television these days is to watch Taiwanese, South Korean, Hong Kong and Singaporean serials. The 8pm news is irrelevant.
Another BN propaganda tool is of course the radio stations. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is frequently on the airwaves in this or that radio talkshow.
And equally just as worse as the television is the print media. Malaysia’s press freedom rating has plunged from 122 to 145 out of 179 countries in the Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index 2013.
A columnist in one of the mainstream papers dated Feb 6, 2013 has remarked that the evaluation given was flawed and arrogant.
This is the norm with BN. If a western entity praises Malaysia, then they will say that the same is very fair and the evaluation is to be respected. But if any entity downgrades them, then the same is said to be biased, stupid, etc.
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