Group Editor NST Resign Tak Tahan Malu, Group Editor Utusan Cium Bont*t Lagi Ke?

The news is going around that a very heavy guilty conscience has floored the Group Editor of the New Straits Times,  Mustapha Kamil who recently tendered his resignation. Here is a message from Mustapha's Facebook that has gone viral.

My dear friends,

Since I still receive numerous private messages enquiring why I opted to leave the New Straits Times early, I now relate to you the final moments before I tendered my resignationfrom a place I had until then treated as my second home.
 

On the morning of April 25th I walked into the CEO’s room with my resignation letter in hand. We sat and talked about my wish for a good one hour where naturally, the CEO enquired why I had wanted to do so.
 

The CEO is a chartered accountant, a man who took his job very seriously, one who is adept with numbers and besides heading the company, someone whom I also considered a friend.   In those rare occasions when our time permitted, we did battle on the golf courses. 

There were two things I related to him that morning. First, just as he, a chartered accountant, would not hesitate to qualify a set of flawed accounts, signing each of them not only by his name, but also by the ethics enshrined within the professional body in which he was a member, I too take journalism ethics seriously.
 

In my line of work, there is this element called the ‘truth discipline’. It is one that requires a journalist to be correct, right from the spelling of names of persons or places, to all the reports he must file. His responsibility is first to the truth, by which he must then guide society in navigating the path they had chosen.

Second, I told him that I had weighed the situation for as long as I could but when an American newspaper, headquartered somewhere in Lower Manhattan in New York, wrote a story that got nominated for the coveted Pullitzer Prize, about an issue that happened right under my nose, I began to seriously search my conscience and asked myself why was I in journalism in the first place.

We had a cordial discussion that morning and the CEO fully understood my predicament and the fact that there was little else that I could do. In my 27 years of being a journalist, I never once subscribed to the saying that if you can’t beat them, join them.

In this line of work, there is no such thing as the path of least resistance. You have to stick to your principles. Around the world, an average of 110 like us, pay the ultimate price each year to get the true stories out. At the very least, I felt that as a journalist, I
had to honour the sacrifices they had made in abiding by the discipline.

I hope that answers everything. I am trying now to embark on a new journey, but will still give my all to this beautiful nation where I was born and where I will probably be buried one day. 

Mustapha Kamil (ex NST Editor)

My comments : In short what Mustapha Kamil is saying is that he could not stand all the bullshit the New Straits Times has been putting up about the theft of the Malaysian taxpayers' money. Plus the bare facts that the NST has deliberately been ignoring, twisting or spinning propaganda just to keep its political masters alive. Mustapha Kamil's hypocrisy quota went dry. He could not be part of the hypocrisy any longer.

What about the Group Editor's of the Utusan Malaysia? Or the Berita Harian?  Dont they also take their  "journalism ethics seriously  ??  Or sudah lelong bunt*t to the Bugis clan ?

A friend told me (a Malay Datuk) that it is so easy to control the Malays because the Malay economy is 100% dependent on the gomen. 

You can argue that many Malays can and do live without gomen help but they hardly get by. It becomes a hand to mouth existence. If they wish to live the good life they need the gomen handout system. Or the GLC jobs, etc. 

So the Group Editors etc of Utusan and Berita Harian will cium bont*t for a while yet.

Sejarah Ringkas Utusan Malaysia:

1938 - Pada awal penerbitannya pada 1938, Utusan Malaysia merupakan saluran utama penduduk Semenanjung Tanah Melayu untuk menyuarakan pendapat mereka terhadap penjajah British.

1940an - Utusan Melayu dan Utusan Zaman berada di barisan hadapan pembangunan intelek-intelek nasionalis Melayu yang kemudiannya telah melahirkan kepemimpinan politik yang berkesedaran tentang persediaan untuk mencapai kemerdekaan.

1958 - Selepas Tanah Melayu mencapai kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, ibu pejabat Utusan Melayu telah dipindahkan ke ibu negara Kuala Lumpur. Di Kuala Lumpur, Utusan Melayu telah memperkukuhkan kedudukannya dan terus memainkan peranan utama sebagai penyumbang aktif dalam pembangunan ekonomi, sosial dan politik Tanah Melayu

2015 -  "Akhbar keramat"  Utusan Malaysia telah menjual bont*t - nya kepada gerombolan Bugis yang dibawah telunjuk seorang Kapitan Lanun Cina yang telah memberi arahan untuk mengawal orang Melayu daripada menyuarakan pendapat atau menegur kejahatan gerombolan Bugis tersebut.