The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday June 28th, 2022
Online media will be the major battleground for GE15 by Murray Hunter
Online media plays a very important role in Malaysian politics. Until the advent of the internet the Rakyat (people)depended upon government owned and controlled media via television, radio, and print. Opposition politicians and alternative narratives to the official government line could not get out to the public, except for very limited distribution political party newspapers like The Rocket and Harakah.
Back in the early 1990s, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamed promoted Malaysia as an IT hub, promising there would be no censorship of the internet to attract foreign investors. After Mahathir surprisingly sacked his deputy Anwar Ibrahim in 1998, the online media quickly came alive with opposition utilizing the internet to carry their message.
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My grey shadow #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Next to me is my grey shadow
the one that falls into a shade
and holds a candle when it rains.
its borrowed soul is from my own
but I never told it what to perform.
instead it hides from my sight
and I can’t find my soul at night.”
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Edward Hallett Carr: Policy Recommendations for a World of Change by Rene Wadlow
Edward Hallett Carr (1892 -1982) whose birth anniversary we note on 28 June, was a British diplomat, a professor of international relations at the University of Wales and from 1940 to 1947 the chief editorial writer for the London Times, a period during which the Times was taken in foreign capitals to be the “voice of the Foreign Office”. Carr’s style lent itself to the serious but short editorials linked to current events but with a longer view perspective.
The perception that the Times editorials were the voice of the Foreign Office played against Carr when his views were considered too pro-Soviet – “the Red Professor of Printing House Square” – created worries in the U.K. government and Washington. Carr was disliked by Winston Churchill and became the “bete noire” of the post-war Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin. Thus Carr was eased out of his Times post by 1947 and spent most of the rest of his life until his 1982 death in writing a fourteen-volume History of Soviet Russia 1919 -1929.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #013 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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