Monday, May 04, 2009
Najib must, at all cost, consider Rocky as Editorial Adviser or Group Editor of the NST!
For our country's total enlightenment and towards helping with a OneMalaysia concept, the job should be given to Rocky aka Ahiruddin Attan! I do not think Ahmad Talib and Johan Jaafar are the right candidates for the job!
I will tell you why Rocky aka Ahiruddin Attan should be considered to take charge of this ailing and once premier Malaysian English paper called the New Straits Timers. I know Rocky a lot better than I know Ahmad Talib (sorry Tok Mat for I must tell the truth about how I feel, for certain important issues are beyond good manners). Also as a friend Rocky and I are bonded a lot closer than I would be with Ahmad Talib, let alone with Johan Jaafar.
As far as I can tell Rocky has always been a level headed writer and as a blogger he commands respect from fellow bloggers. He presents good and logical views when defending Najib Tun Razak againsts the onslaught of personal attacks against the PM expecially vis-a-vis the Altantuya case.
I do not see Ahmad Talib or Johan Jaafar trying to put in their two-bits worth of their thought defending Najib in any matter in their column or blogsites.
All I can see in Ahmad Talib's blogsite is just about drinking teh tarik with Muttu, Ah Chong and Ali and never once did I see Ahmad Talib shooting down writers like RPK and defending Najib when RPK writes smut on so many issues while trying to denigrate and especially to implicate the now-Prime Minister of Malaysia in a murder case.
Johan Jaafar, meanwhile tries to impress people with his convoluted English when trying to show to the world that he is God's gift to the English language and a denizen of many intellectual issues from movies to books and other hoity-toity subjects such as Voltaire, Rousseau and never once have I seen his column defending Najib.
Once I tried to have a conversation with this Johan Jaafar, a confirmed Anwarista as far as I am concerned, who by the way has no respect for Najib in the first place, I was brushed off like a pariah. To him no one is good enough!
And yet, if this is true, then Najib has committed these two major faux pas by appointing Ahmad Talib and Johan Jaafarf to take charge of the NSTP and a sick newspaper called the New Straits Times. Sir if this isn't too late I would like you to re-consider Rocky to take charge of the NSTP or at least the NST.
Him at the helm of this sick newspaper I think people, Malaysian people, will again be given a hope. After all this is what you are being elevated to do, to give people more hope. And appointing Ahmad Talib and Johan Jaafar is like sliding back to a mental depression!
I don't think I can handle it sir! Meanwhile we will still remain loyal to your leadership!
Posted by Pasquale at 6:11 AM