Thursday, April 6, 2006

which one to believe?

Journalism in Malaysia really have gone down the crapper together with our legal services. Check out this 2 stories in both The Star and Harian Metro... I couldn't find the news in neither Berita Harian nor Utusan when I'm writing this...

Here's a summary of the same news reported with very different details on both papers.


The version from The Star

38 years old felda settler, entrusted 2 of his neighbours (brothers, age 33 and 32 respectively) to bring his 33 years old wife back after he developed severe headache on their motocycle ride home. They 2 brothers instead took a detour and the elder brother raped the wife while the younger brother keep a lookout.


The version from Harian Metro has more interesting facts..

A felda setler entrusted 2 of his friends (age 33 and 23) to bring his wife home because he was too drunk to drive their motocycle. The wife has requested the husband to stop due to he was too drunk to control his motorcycle. The 2 friends later took turn to rape the wife.



damnit! I can't help to think what else did our reporters report that's being pulled out of their asses.


3 comments:

  1. In NST, the same story but oso different details; but the story more similar to the Harian Metro version. I am sure the reporters did not invent the story, maybe the facts was a bit murky so they had to make do with what they have? :-)

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  2. yeah maybe, but how do you maek do from severe headache to drunk and from age 32 to age 23? like that better wait to hear the news from gossiping aunties..

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  3. And this, my friend is what we call "irresponsible journalism". But not all journalist in Malaysia like that lah... Perhaps gossiping aunties can also be persuaded to take up a new profession!! ;-)

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