SHUT UP AND DANCE!

Shut up and dance to the tune that I suggested. That’s what going on in Pas. The former Perak Menteri Besar was told by PAS to avoid speaking to the media.

It seems he has very tight schedule and don’t have time to speak to the media. Is that true?

How pity. They must be using him to the max. I hope to see him doing that at his current state constituent.

You don’t need a genius to figure behind this ruling was to avoid anything from being misquoted.

It’s a well known fact that the opposition parties have problems with the mainstream media (MSM) and so does the government too. They have the alternative media giving them a handful.
The opposition always argues that the MSM have the tendency to misquote or give wrongly interpret their statement.

But I don’t see this as a reason for you to stop anyone from talking to the media. Tun Dr.Mahathir was often misquoted by the foreign media and he didn’t see this as a problem. He confronted them and used their own weapon against them and in then end the foreign media has to eat their words.

What you need is someone articulate and knowledgeable. With these characteristics in you, it will arm you against any negative perceptions or verbal abuse.

These characteristics served Tun Dr.Mahathir well when he faces foreign media. He’s well prepared and those who decide to go head on against him must be well prepared too or he will verbally strip them in public.

I don’t think Nizar is as articulate and knowledgeable as Tun Dr.Mahathir.He fumbled many a times when he was questioned by the media. In order not to repeat this, Pas decided to bar him from speaking to the media and use his busy schedule as an excuse.

Both sides have been using media extensively to sweeten whatever they’re doing. In this by-election season, the media is going at full steam. No one can accuse any media being bias. Come to think of it, all media are bias, which is nothing bad. It’s up to us to think and decide which is best to believe.

Whenever any media misquote or wrongly interpret anything, the onus is on us. We are well armed with a fully functional brain, so we decide whether to accept or rubbish it.

So don’t blame the media. Blame the source for not being well armed to face the media and blame the public too for believing without any question.

The media has its own set of problem too. They have ‘hearing’ problem hence often misquoting and they also have manipulators editing the stories hence the interpretation problems. But everyone knows about these and yet they still complain about media being bias. It is akin to addiction, any form of addiction. You know it’s not good yet you still want it.