Let us help you push away the clouds 1. The argument that controlling the media guarantees your power base is most ridiculous. The opposite is true. Worldwide, from time immemorial to present day, no one has been able to defy the law of nature. Monopoly leads to death.
Political parties have no business in the media.
In addition to that, MCA should SELL The Star instead. With the advent of electronic media and new technologies, print media business is undergoing one of its most life-threatening transformation. The takeover advocates' guarantee of non-interference with the media, citing The Star as your shining example does not hold water either. The Star not only blacked out information, The Star also misinformed the public kept harping on JE till almost the very end when the Chinese literate community knew it was a new virus all along. When competent and independent-minded journalists and commentators leave your newspapers, all you get is an empty shell and banal reproduction of propaganda.