Sunday, September 17, 2006

POPE APOLOGY

Aisehman did what you'd expect editors of the BH, Utusan and NST to do, from reporting Pope Benedict's controversial statements on Islam and analysing the angry response it solicited to demanding a retraction from the Pope and thanking the Vatican for the yesterday's apology.

From the first posting on the issue to the apology last night, he kept people informed and helped them maintain a sober perspective of the issues.

Meanwhile, a so-called real editor chose to lull you, in his column today, with the glory of going fishing with successful friends in Bali and having Thai desserts in Bangkok.

His Mat Chai no 2, in his Berita Minggu column, defends Umno Putera's stupid defence of the Mat Rempits.

27 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:48 pm

    Sdr Bru, saya intip kolum Dato' Hisham Aun dalam BM hari ini. Intip kerana saya tidak mahu tengok semua. Memualkan.
    Tidak menghairankan bagi seorang GEIC yang tiada pengalaman politik dan tidak kenal personaliti politik, tetapi dianugerahkan begitu banyak gelaran dato' oleh MB dan KM, Hisham tiada pilihan lain melainkan memuji dan memuja apa sahaja yang dilakukan oleh Tuan-Tuan politiknya, termasuk budak mentah setahun jagung yang mencuri idea Puteri Umno untuk menubuhkan Putera.
    Inilah gelahat sokong bawa rebah kumpulan NSTP yang dipimpin oleh Hisham atas ehsan Kalimullah Hassan yang juga berupa bekas GEIC yang dipayung-terjunkan oleh Tinggat 4 Kompleks Perdana Menteri.
    Jadi tiada hairanlah jika seorang demi seorang penulis dan kolumnis berwibawa disingkirkan kerana Hisham tidak mahu saingan kerana dia sememangnya tiada mampu bersaing hatta dengan Manja Profesenal, Mustapha Omar, Zian Johari (sudah di VSSkan)dan budak-budak BH lain peninggalan Kadir, Nazri dan Rejal.
    Dia pun tidak fasih isu ekonomi dan diplomasi kerana pengkhususannya sukan jadi bagaimana mahu mengulas mengenai apa yang Pope kata.
    Atas fakta kelemahan dan kekurangan inilah dia dinobatkan oleh Kali sebagai pengganti.
    Tapi saya tabik Hisham atas penampilan dan ketrampilannya. Packaging world class.

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  3. Anonymous3:07 pm

    Defence of the Mat Rempits? Not only is it stupid. It's equally moronic. UMNO Putera top guns should be made to do active duty with the cops trying to stop those senseless racing competitions. Maybe, I am not sure they will, given their moronic distorted view of the whole issue, they will appreciate the danger these Mat Remoits cause to the public and to themselves.

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  4. Anonymous3:34 pm

    The Pope only quoted a conversation between a king and a learned persian about the teaching of Mohammad, in 1391.

    Whether the Pope quoted it or not, the conversations took place. That conversations might have different views from those held by Muslims, they should not change the mind of Muslims in believing what they choose to, as a faith. There is no necessity for Muslims to seek agreement from any quarters to believe what they choose, and other people's opinion does not influence the truth of what they believe. Hence it would be wasting unnecessary efforts to correct or change other persons' opinion when those opinion should not affect one's thinking and beliefs in the first place. For example, a person can claim that the earth is square, but that would not change the earth to that shape.

    It is a reflection of a person's weakness if one chooses to be sensitive of what other says, when the statement does not affect one's own belief. It is quite different from people giving opinion as a witness in a court case, where the 'truth' ought to prevail, and efforts towards that end carry tangible outcome.

    Nobody in any other religion would be bothered with statments about the prophet such as about the buddha. The buddhists would only feel sorry that the remarks are made out of ignorance.

    Was the PM using this occasion to be the champion of Muslims when he could not be said to be a champion for Malays by Mahathir's standards.

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  5. Anonymous4:32 pm

    You think Brendan P will have more guts than his two bosses? And why Pak Lah did not talk tough when his own paper did the carricature mocking the response to an earlier carricature on the Prophet (saw)?

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  6. Anonymous6:51 pm

    Rocky, who cares what this guy fishing in Bali? Not interested to read about his fishing trip or such a Column.

    Due to weakness or failure of present Government functions, he could get away with ECM Libra deals, he could get rich as editor. Would Malaysia be able to retrovert and crack him down for irregularity deals, one fine day?

    We pray the Nation will beat the path of real democracy and justice will be served in near future. This Nation cannot afford to lag behind.

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  7. Anonymous9:44 pm

    Honestly, Dato' Hishamuddin Aun does not fit the bill to be the GEIC of NSTP. This is based from what he been writing so far. I don't see his maturity and intelectuality in his writing. Recently, I ikut bos I nelawat NSTP dan bertemu lah for the first time Dato' Hishamuddin dan Dato' Manja. Daripada perbincangan kami, saya simpulkan yang mereka ini masih mentah dan belum mampu untuk memimpin sebuah organisasi media yang memerlukan seorang editor yang berkaliber seperti DAtuk Kadir Jasin atau Allahyarham Tan Sri Nordin Sopie. Saya pun hairan, lebih-lebih lagi bos saya lah. Dia buat komen tapi saya tak mahulah cerita apa komen dia. Demi kerajaan, Umno dan orang Melayu, rasanya mereka perlu diganti. Saya melihat masalah yang berlaku hari ini, salah satu sebabnya ialah kerana tindakan media yang diurus oleh orang yang tidak berpengalaman. Punca kemarahan Dr M dicetuskan oleh media. Itu saya pasti. Dalam pertemuan itu, saya mendapati mereka tidak faham pun dengan siapa mereka berbincang. Dato' Hishamuddin mungkin boleh bercakap tetapi tidak berisi manakala jenaka yang cuba dibuat Dato' Manja, memalukan, Saya pun rasa malu walaupun terpaksa buat-buat ketawa. Pak Lah perlu melihat perkara ini dengan serius. Kalimullah, awak kena ingat, pelantikan seseorang ke sesuatu jawatan, bukan untuk suka-suka. Sesuatu jawatan itu ada maknanya dan ada fungsinya. Jawatan bukan untuk kawan-kawan kerana ia ada penilaiannya. Itulah salah satu sebabnya awak sendiri tidak disukai kerana pemilihan yang salah ke jawatan yang salah. Mereka ini melambangkan pemikiran pemimnpin hari ini. Saya juga berkawan dengan orang Utusan. Saya diberitahu beberapa editor akhbar itu sudah pun berhenti kerana tidak digemari Dato' Hishamuddin. Untuk saudara Rocky, saya amat terkejut apabila diberitahu oleh wartawan Utusan bahawa blog sdra diharamkan di NSTP. Setelah mengikuti beberapa tulisan sdra, saya faham mengapa mereka berbuat demikian. Patutlah apabila saya bertanya kepada wartawan NSTP yang datang ke pejabat mengenai perkembangan industri media dan satu dua soalan mengenai NSTP berasaskan kepada isu yang saya baca di blog ini, mereka tak tau apa-apa pun. Berbeza dengan wartawan Utusan, ramai mereka yang mengikuti blog sdra. Pada saya, ini memalukan NSTP. Untuk Dato' Hishamuddin, saya menulis ini atas rasa tanggungjawab saya sebagai rakyat yang mewakili sebuah institusi yang dihormati, eloklah sdra memperbaiki tulisan saudara supaya setanding dengan tulisan-tulisan editor lain. Isu kecil seperti isu Mat Rempit ni, biarlah ditulis oleh wartawan sdra saja. Sdra analisalah isu-isu besar yang tidak mampu diulas oleh orang lain. Jika orang lain boleh memberi idea yang lebih matang daripada saudara, maka saudar perlu fikirkan di manakah sebenarnya kedudukan sdra? Harap nama-nama yang saya sebut di atas dapat menerima teguran ini dengan positif.

    Gamam

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  8. Anonymous10:07 am

    anonymous (who signed as Gamam)

    you hit the nail, sir.
    now you know why kalimullah had to get rid of Rocky. And why Hishamudin must make it his mission in life to prevent the emergence and rise of other Rockys.
    The NSt was cursed the moment Kalimullah took over the NST as its group editor in chief and forcibly removed senior/credible editors/journalists or compelled them to leave.
    You are not wrong in your assessment as I am sure many (as opposed to those few who owe Kalimullah a debt of gratitude) NST journalists would agree with you.
    I am not an NST journalist. I was not either. But I have enough friends who are either with the NST group or were.
    Lets just put it this way -- no professional institution would want the likes of kalimulah to be on board.
    some people dismiss him as "bad medicine", others say he had an axe to grind at the NST.
    The reason for booting out Rocky is known near and far -- Kalimullah's matchais may tell a different story, but they are his matchais, so you' expect them to spin his way.
    I have not known of anyone so hated, despised and looked with contempt as kalimullah. I know now.
    He has no principles other than to make money, enrich himself and fix those who stand in his way. Now, he wants power as the icing on the cake.
    You wouldnt want to know what will happen to him once the Prime Minister is no longer in office.
    I don't think i need to know, either.

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  9. Anonymous10:18 am

    kewartawanan dalam akhbar arus utama di malaysia memang sudah berubah, menukar wajah. malah bukan wajah sahaja yang berubah. the spirit, the soul on which newspaperism was built is moribund, perhaps dead.
    ini kerana, (Utusan di kecualikan di sini) akhbar2 seperti NST, BH, Star dan Sun di kepalakan wartawan2 yang tidak bersemangat berani-mati.yang dikepalakan orang2 yang nhanya di gelar wartawan atau pengarang.
    lihat bagaimana hishamudin aun di pandang begitu rendah sebagai wartawan. di pandang rendah bukan di kalangan "peers" belaiu, tetapi pemberita2 BH, yang beliau ketuai. di pandang rendah, di cemoh, bukan kerana dia seorang pemberita sukan. tidak. kewibawaan seseorang wartawan bukan di ukur dengan kemahiran pengkhususan nya. kita hormat wartawan hiburan, wartawan sukan, wartawan politik yang berwibawa.
    hishamudin telah membukitkan bahawa dia tidak berwibawa. itu sahaja. beliau tidak berwibawa sebab di beri jawatan yang memberi beliau terlalu besar kuasa yang telah di salahgunakan. dia lemah. senang di gunakan. lebih dari itu, dia SANGGUP di gunakan.

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  10. Anonymous10:21 am

    bro,

    by now, you know that you cannot expect anything that smacks of decency from the NST top guns.
    and kalimulah fishing in Bali. He's having fun. He's telling you guys that he doesnt give two hoots what you guys think of him -- that he is a cheat, a liar, a scum, a s.., @@####.
    You see, he knows he's got the PM by the ...
    you can expose him for all the shit that he his, and will go on fishing.

    cheers, brother.

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  11. Anonymous10:34 am

    Bru, as reader of Sunday Times I wld like to ask them to transfer Kalimullah's column to the other sections meant for light reading and entertainment, that is if they really must have it.

    Kalimullah does not have what it takes to fill the vacuum left by his predecessors, notably TS Abdullah Ahmad, Dtk Kadir Jasin.

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  12. Anonymous10:37 am

    to be honest, i do read the NST, New Sunday Times. Call me loyal, whatever. Been reading the paper since I was a kid. My whole family too. WAS a good paper. In some ways, still is. And I can tell you what has gone wrong. But I wont waste it here becasue I think most of your commentators, bro, are NST journalists. So, they know better.
    But as a reader, I can tell you, the Sunday Column is readable, Sure it is. english ok. subject ok. But it should be renamed or retitled -- maybe Kali's Lazy Adventures or Kali's Kup or Kali's Bakul. That guy is full of himself, isnt he?
    So, I have one use for the Sunday Column page -- as kitty litter.

    annie

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  13. Anonymous10:42 am

    unbelievable that kalimullah is heading (he still call the shots, right?) the NST. i suppose, it is a circle -- when NST was a giant, it was headed by giants. So as the NST is reduced to what it is today, then makes perfect sense that people like Kalimullah is there. And of course, hishamudin, brendan, manja. i see kamrul is in the hierarchy. either NST is desperate or it is simply just the way things are run today at the NST.
    A pity.

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  14. Anonymous10:46 am

    Anon, you are right, the world will remain round even if someone tells you it's flat. But if the Pope tell you the world is flat, then you'd worry about his mental fitness, right? The fanatics, however, may choose to believe that the world is flat because the Pope said so. The Pope, anon, is not mere mortal; he is the Pope and what a Pope says is gospel truth to millions around the world.

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  15. Anonymous10:58 am

    Hantu Jalan Riong, Hishamuddin Aun should write in NST not Berita. His english not good? It's ok, I don't think anything can be worse than his Malay. Many good sub-editors in NST who can polish up his language. Heck, sure he can sound better than Brendan the Alphabet Soup King?

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  16. Anonymous12:48 pm

    rocky bro,

    interesting to note that kalimullah's sunday column could be a whole load of lies...ok..maybe parts of his tale are a whole load of lies.
    what i am saying is that people like kalimullah can lie about anything. even fishing trips.
    if i were you, i wont believe everything he writes. i mean, a lot of what he writes. but i guess you already know that.
    and especially the part that he didnt care who won in kubang pasu.
    Kali still thinks people are fools. does he "really want all the fighting and public washing of dirty linen to end" so that he "can get some semblance of normalcy" in your life?
    That's all he wants?
    "Malaysians have had this sort of thing almost at a stretch for almost 24 years. And it's still going on."
    If you ask me, Kalimullah is part of the machinery and process responsible for this mess we are in. Kalimullah and the machai2 want this Tun-Pak Lah rift to go on.

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  17. Anonymous1:43 pm

    i beg you. i beg you.
    Please don't even begin to say the Pope in the same breath with K, AAB, KJ.
    Please. He is the Pope, the Holy Father. He is a magnanimous, great human being.

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  18. Anonymous4:45 pm

    intanbaiduri,
    no prizes for guessing right!
    even before Pak Lah announces his retirement, Kali and the rest of them @#@***, would have already packed their bags to take a mighty long holiday abroad.
    we already running a bet on this!

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  19. Anonymous8:19 pm

    ///The Pope, anon, is not mere mortal; he is the Pope and what a Pope says is gospel truth to millions around the world.///

    It is an interesting observation. But, is it not true that the millions would not include muslims?

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  20. Anonymous11:15 pm

    Hantu Jalan Liku menggelarkan Manja profesenal. Saya tak jelas lah apa maksud profesenal tu? Tak nampak pun tulisan dia kat mana-mana?. Profesenal seorang wartawan mestilah dibuktikan dengan tulisan dia, bukan kalau orang lain kata dia profesenal, maka Hantu Jalan Liku pun kata dia profesenal. Patutnya kita kaji tulisan dia dulu, sama ada dia benar-benar mengamalkan profesional journalism atau dia sendiri yang kata dia profesenal. Setahu kami yang kat bawah ni, dia cakap lain, buat lain. Saya hanya boleh kata dia profesenal kalau dia menulis secara jujur, tidak bias dan objektif. Kalau tak tulis langsung, maksudnya, tidak ada pendirian. Tiada pendirian maksudnya jadi macam lalang. Tapi, kalau nak tulis biarlah tulis perkara yang serius, jangan tulis pasal Mat Rempit pulak yang mampu ditulis macam tulis karangan sekolah. Cuma, Dato' Manja, apa yang kami p;erhatikan, di depan, dia ampu Dato' Hisham juga...belakang dia kutuk juga, walau pun berlapik, kita faham maksud dia. Kami ni gelak saja...yang pasti, janganlah ingat kami ni kayu. Kami tahu menilai juga.

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  21. Anonymous8:04 am

    hahaha, bro.
    Kalmulah's SUnday Column about the glory of fishing in Bali?
    Aiyaaah. He is telling the world that he has friends-lah. CLose friends with whom he can enjoy some time, some intimate moments. with whom he can share some fishing moments.
    And you think nobody wants to be his FRIEND!

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  22. Anonymous8:07 am

    ingin tanya. Bagaimana seorang seperti Hishamudin Aun dapat jadi wartawan NST/BH?
    Tulisan dia teruk sekali. Bukan bahasa dia teruk. Tetapi cara dia menulis. Saya tak dapat ikut rencana dia.

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  23. Anonymous8:21 am

    intanbaiduri,

    WHen he became NST GEIC, Kalimulah told NST guys and girls that he did not want the job. It was Pak Lah who persuaded him to take the job. he had no choice. After all the offer came from the PM. Oh, those guys and girls who didnt know Kali, the scumbag, didnt know any better. What was there to doubt? they didnt know. BUT others who knew him for the shit that he is, knew better.
    The truth is this: He had been eyeing that coveted job. He had long begun his smear campaign against the NST.more specifically NST journalists. He told MANY people that NST was a terrible terrible place. The people there are so so terrible. Yes, he had an axe to grind because when he first came to the NST sometime in the 80s (courtesy Zainon Ahmad), he felt that he was not treated well. That was his feeling. which was not quite true. NST journalists,at that time, knew him for what he was. Kali just couldnt find friends in that short time he was at the NST then.
    So, that is Kalimulah the pendendam.

    raju

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  24. Putera UMNO working with Mat Rempet? Not surprised, just look into the background of its Ketua.

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  25. Anonymous2:37 pm

    raju said...

    Yes, he had an axe to grind because when he first came to the NST sometime in the 80s ...

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    Kali left the star in 1987 together with senior Star journalists Rusdi Mustpaha, Zainal Epi, Maria Samad, Azmni Anshar & Shah Dadameah (who is his brother-in-law) .

    They joined NST at the same time, Kali a little bit later. Shah left after a day at the NST and Zainal followed suit..

    Kali stayed a couple of months because he couldn’t fit in the NST, and yes, he wasn’t liked because they knew him for what he is.

    He didnt have & didnt make many friends in the NST with the exception of his ex Star colleagues. INDEED he has an axe to grind.

    The only person who was willing to have tea with him when he was in the NST was Maria Samad. He’d wait for her in the features room for her to finish her work then they’d go off to the canteen upstairs.

    That very reluctantly too kerana kesiankan si Kali.

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  26. Anonymous6:30 am

    Suruh Hisham tulis surat cinta dia dengan ...... yang selalu berkaraoke bersama tuh!!!!

    Yang si CEO NSTP pulak dengor katernyer ada skandal gila dengan bidadari metrowealth. Dia pun ada syer dengan David Teo ker? David Teo, untuk pengetahuan semua ada ramai stok2 perempuan termasuklah seorang janda yang sering intim dengan CEO NSTP ni. Tu sebab masa metrowealth buat majlis buka puasa hari tu dia sanggup menggadai dan menebalkan mukanya dengan tidak kena mengena boleh enterframe dalam majlis tu. Siap keluar kat harian metro 4-10-06 write majlis tu sampai 2 page lagi. Sbb apa? sebab CEO(tokey la kononnya)hadir majlis tu.. jadi pengarang hiburan hmetro nak bodek siap tulis kredit lagi vip yang hadir..(Jangan jerat diri sendiri dah la CEO oi!!!)

    Ai? Syed Faizal dan jadi pelakon filem ker? Nasib baik member kamcing(GEIC) dia tak ikut sekali.

    Dlm orang sibuk2 politik, diorang ni sibuk buat collection Girlfriend. Maklumlah tempat duduk tengak empok.... semua betina diorang petik jari jer.. terus melekat. Tunggu la esok bile tempat duduk dah lepeaq...

    p/s: Masyukkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!

    Frm: CIA NSTP

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  27. Anonymous3:21 pm

    sebagai orang yang pernah gak keje kat BH dan NST tu, saya agak terkejut dgn apa yang diperkatakan disini. tapi saya setuju tentang apa yang diperihalkan disini mengenai Dato' M tu...sampai hari ini, setelah 5 tahun saya meninggalkan BH, saya tertanya-tanya "kenapa dia?" seorang autokratik yang suka buat lawak lucah tetapi diiktiraf....sangat memalukan...dato' hisham mungkin nampak kekurangannya dari segi penulisan (dah lama tak menulis agaknya...) tapi saya "salute" dia dari segi ketrampilan dan budi bahasanya...
    to rocky...u r still the best and always be...may the force be with you...

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