'When I applied for a job as a journalist, my boss told me that journalism was about reporting the “facts”, not the “truth.”
I didn’t really understand him then. Wasn’t it the same?
But I’ve come to realise that “truth” has its own shade of meaning, a play on passion and emotions, while “facts” are unemotional, leaning neither right nor left. You, the reader, are free to make your own judgment. But with the “truth”, it sometimes comes with the writer’s own judgments.'
'When the government suspended the printing permits of The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily, it wasn't just an attack on one media organisation, or even on the media industry as a whole ― it was an attack on the people.
It was an attack on Malaysians' right to obtain information about the government they elected.
It was an attack on people's ability to make informed decisions about public policies concerning their hard-earned tax ringgit.
What infuriates me more than anything else is the government's audacious act in suppressing information that Malaysians need in order to decide what kind of governance they want.
How dare they presume to do that, when it is the people who put them in power and entrusted them with the huge responsibility of using our tax monies efficiently to run the country?'
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/boo-su-lyn/article/the-never-ending-fight-for-the-facts#sthash.hMbFoC0L.dpuf
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I didn’t really understand him then. Wasn’t it the same?
But I’ve come to realise that “truth” has its own shade of meaning, a play on passion and emotions, while “facts” are unemotional, leaning neither right nor left. You, the reader, are free to make your own judgment. But with the “truth”, it sometimes comes with the writer’s own judgments.'
'When the government suspended the printing permits of The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily, it wasn't just an attack on one media organisation, or even on the media industry as a whole ― it was an attack on the people.
It was an attack on Malaysians' right to obtain information about the government they elected.
It was an attack on people's ability to make informed decisions about public policies concerning their hard-earned tax ringgit.
What infuriates me more than anything else is the government's audacious act in suppressing information that Malaysians need in order to decide what kind of governance they want.
How dare they presume to do that, when it is the people who put them in power and entrusted them with the huge responsibility of using our tax monies efficiently to run the country?'
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/boo-su-lyn/article/the-never-ending-fight-for-the-facts#sthash.hMbFoC0L.dpuf
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