Description
This collection of parliamentary speeches, including one made in the Malacca State Assembly, from October 1978 to March 1982 is a record of the political developments in the country during the last four years.mom
Its publication is aimed at informing Malaysians of what the DAP had been saying and fighting for in Parliament, as the 'free and democratic' press in Malaysia had consistently blacked out DAP speeches in Parliament.
Since 1978, the nebulous 'press freedom' in Malaysia had come under a serious onslaught from a new direction, with more and more local newspapers falling under the ownership and control of one or other of the Barisan Nasional component parties.
These Barisan Nasional component parties bought up local newspapers not because they want to uphold 'freedom of the press, information and expression', but to deny the people and country such freedom. These Barisan Nasional component parties buy up local newspapers in the way their corporate arms raided the share market, to serve their own narrow sectarian interests.
These Barisan owned and controlled newspapers operate with painstaking subtlety on normal occasions to build up circulation and credibility. But at times of great political import, as during an election campaign which will determine the fate of their political masters, such Barisan owned and controlled newspapers would show their true colours, thinking of nothing to stoop to the basest of distortions and lies to wreck the Opposition.
ISBN:MALAYSIAINTHE
