"WE ARE SORRY" - in bold on the front page of the Malay Mail for the "offensive and distasteful" chapter that will find the editors guilty of carelessness, which is as serious a sin as plagiarism, or outright disregard for the acceptable notion of decency.
It was said that since nstp wanted to turn The Paper That Cares into a rag like FHM these editors were hired as the previous one would not fit in.
We have "Mat Salleh" expats making good money and a name for themselves as editors of various lifestyle magazines.But a "Mat Salleh" as editor of an Umno-owned paper? Singapore operatives running an Umno paper?
At the KL Umno Convention, the DPM lambasted the Kalimullah-led NSTP for allowing the Mail to degenerate to a porn trash. "Memalukan ", he said. Last week's issue dedicated 57 of its 66 pages to sex. Front page blurbs scream "Fetish Files", "Celebrity Sex", "Hooters!", "Pole Dancing Tips", "Kinky Cakes".The delegates took Najib's displeasure as a cue to scrutinize the state of the Malay Mail and its weekend edition. Shahrizat Jalil, the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, spoke out angrily against the newspaper editors for what they have done to one of the country's oldest English-language newspapers.
Former magistrate M. Zul was a contributing editor with a small men's magazine when they took him earlier this year and threw him to the deepest end of Malaysian journalism.Late yesterday, the NSTP chief executive officer Syed Faizal Albar, Group Editor-in-Chief Hishamuddin Aun, and Editorial Adviser Kalimullah Hassan decided that M. Zul should drown alone. Absolving themselves of any blame, the three ordered M. Zul to be suspended from his job pending the outcome of an inquiry into the "smut" issue of Weekend Mail, which is edited by a foreigner.The suspension came just hours after the PM, who put Kali at the NSTP in 2004 to mess things up, commented from from Islamabad on the "smut" issue.
An action to suspend the publication of the Weekend Mail must be taken by the Internal Security Ministry for breaching guidelines and conditions under the Printing and Presses Act 1984 as reports and photographs in the paper's issue focusing on sex and sexual issues were contrary to values practised by Malaysians.
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"WE ARE SORRY" - in bold on the front page of the Malay Mail for the "offensive and distasteful" chapter that will find the editors guilty of carelessness, which is as serious a sin as plagiarism, or outright disregard for the acceptable notion of decency.
