jgray91
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Can't really comment much on this (well that goes for a topic) since I didn't follow the issues up to the latest past GE. Don't really have the time to watch this too, I'm afraid; only managed to watch half of it. Of what I do watched, i.e. the new media affecting information insemination and racial equality, here's what I think.
Old media is mostly controlled by BN, that much is certain. New media; social media, blogs, etc.; are more into what the younger voters want to see, and there's a lot more extremism on both sides. Sure, what mostly happened with social media are keyboard crusades and whatnot, but when the keyboard crusaders are in close proximity and not really anonymous, it can get to bloodletting (like brain-dead people expressing extreme opinion on a site that uses Facebook Connect and are using their main Facebook account). Racial equality... is a tough thing for me, since I am Malay. I am here in Moscow because there's an entity; MARA, for this post's sake. That's its real name btw; that focuses solely on helping Malay. I got my education from a school established by that same entity. What non-Malay; Chinese and Indian; can supposedly count on are the government, but even there Malay are still given a bit more help, since MARA can help only so much.
There's not a lot that I can say though, since, like I said at the start of the post, I don't follow the issues presented, loudly and in the open, if not clearly, the past year prior to the election, and I lived in a fairly uneventful neighbourhood. I should say though that now I have to follow the political malarkey since in the next election I am eligible to vote.
Old media is mostly controlled by BN, that much is certain. New media; social media, blogs, etc.; are more into what the younger voters want to see, and there's a lot more extremism on both sides. Sure, what mostly happened with social media are keyboard crusades and whatnot, but when the keyboard crusaders are in close proximity and not really anonymous, it can get to bloodletting (like brain-dead people expressing extreme opinion on a site that uses Facebook Connect and are using their main Facebook account). Racial equality... is a tough thing for me, since I am Malay. I am here in Moscow because there's an entity; MARA, for this post's sake. That's its real name btw; that focuses solely on helping Malay. I got my education from a school established by that same entity. What non-Malay; Chinese and Indian; can supposedly count on are the government, but even there Malay are still given a bit more help, since MARA can help only so much.
There's not a lot that I can say though, since, like I said at the start of the post, I don't follow the issues presented, loudly and in the open, if not clearly, the past year prior to the election, and I lived in a fairly uneventful neighbourhood. I should say though that now I have to follow the political malarkey since in the next election I am eligible to vote.
