BFM Podcast

Malaymail Chief: All media is biased

Tan KW
Publish date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017, 02:04 PM

Datuk Wong Sai Wan, Editor in Chief, Malaymail

04-Oct-17 13:15

 

The prevailing narrative today is that the news media is in trouble. This is fuelled by the disrupted business model, the rise of “fake news” as well as some people claiming that there are media who are no longer balanced but are used as a tool by governments or owners to their own benefit.

What's a media veteran's take on that?

We speak to Datuk Wong Sai Wan, Editor in Chief of Malaymail, to get his views on this. He is also the COO for the media business of Ancom Bhd.

Wong, over three decades of experience in hand, also shares his insights on the sector that has been disrupted.

We also talk about Malaymail -- one of the oldest printed English daily in the Klang Valley at 121 years old. During its peak, the Malaymail printed 60,000 copies in the mid-1980s. Today, the numbers are down and the paper is lossmaking.

Can Malaymail find back their glory days?

Wong gets frank about this and shares his plans for the paper moving forward in the midst of a challenging landscape.

Presented by: Joyce Goh

Discussions
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Kingchek Hong

Wrong grammar! Media is the plural of medium please. Article above from Chief Editor! Unbelievably poor command of English from the Chief Editor.

2017-10-04 14:13

Sunna Sutta

Media is indeed plural. However, it is not wrong for the Chief Editor to treat all media as a collective noun that can be expressed as a singular. For example, we may say, "All of America is in mourning in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting". This can refer equally to all Americans in the plural or the entire population of America in the singular. For further insight on whether 'all media' should be treated as singular or plural, refer to https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12818/which-is-correct-all-the-media-is-or-all-the-media-are.

2017-10-04 15:40

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