KHALIL, THE MONKEE ON TV

Dear Lantang,

Since Khalil Yaakob took over Kementerian Penerangan, I have never seen Wan Azizah on the local TV, not even NTV7. I think it is correct to assume that WA's face has been banned from local TV. Every time she sees Wan Azizah on TV, my mother-in-law always become 'sebak'. I think banning WA from local TV is a smart move by the BN government. Even my mother, who always voted for BN (and will probably do so again in this upcoming election) is very sympathetic with WA. But she still believes that AI shouldn't go against MM. "Let Allah punish whoever is guilty between those two in the Judgement day", that's what she always say. But she may have swing her vote if she gets more pictures of WA on TV.

One more smart move by BN is by equating government with BN and BN with government. We in Malaysia has never had any non-BN federal government, so, the common rakyat can easily be convinced that BN is the government. and vice versa. Of course Americans for example cannot imagine a Democrat President asking the students of a 80% state-sponsored University in his state to support him in a Presidential election because his government sponsored the University. Such strategy would backfire or is even illegal there! But not here,we are not Americans. Realistically speaking many still think that we have that 'kenang budi' or 'appreciative' value that we should maintain and nobody can blame them.

However the BN also has made some not-so-smart moves. One example is the assignment of too many thugs to hang around suspiciously full time at soc.culture.malaysia and responding to EVERY postings that are related to the upcoming election issues. The rate of which these guys are responding is amazing (I think they are being paid bonus based on the # of postings). This strategy is no good since they are all too focused on scum, and nobody reads scum anyway.They should have distributed their resources more evenly ie one in scum, one or two in sang kancil, one or two in adil.net, updating some of the web pages that they have, making new ones etc. They should also concentrate on quality postings instead of quantity, and should not post too often, which will cause people to become suspicious of them (ehh kuli gomen tu!)

However, frankly I think BN should not focus on Internet at all and should focus where they are good at - the electronic media. Internet is a powerful media but not as powerful as the TV. One suggestion though, instead of the current one-sided reports and forums on the TV, BN should allow more balanced opinions to be voiced ou, and a debate or two.Yes, it is a weird suggestion but I AM CONVINCED THAT BN would be able to improve their image tremendously by doing that since most of us know that those talented leaders of ours would be able to woo those fence sitters with their sound arguments and substantiated claims and the rakyat will be exposed to the incompetencies of the opposition on National TV.

just my 1 kupang
chloro