Malaysians Keen On Entertainment??

According to Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, Malaysians are more interested in entertainment matters; hence, his ministry (Information Ministry) faces difficulty in getting government messages across to the people.

Based on his briefing to BN members in the Parliament, he was quoted by Bernama saying the following:

• He said the ministry's budget was increased every year but the messages it delivered lacked impact
• "Although the role of departments and agencies under the ministry appears comprehensive, there are still many people who have little understanding of issues and problems that are reported"
• "This has resulted in the public often questioning and not supporting government policies"

Arshad Hashim (Ministry Sec-Gen) also said "RTM faced tough competition on dissemination of information from VCDs and the internet".

In view of the above, one can say that the Information Ministry is less competent in their job as compared other mass media owners. While acknowledging the fact of their incompetence, they failed to outline their strategy to overcome their weakness.

Why do the minister think that the public are more keen towards entertainment matter in the first place? Is it because the rakyat are fed up of the government's policy? Do we lack the intellectual mind to understand those policy? or is it that we just don't care what the government decides to do?

To me, is simple. The public will want to know more about anything if they find them interesting or have a direct impact on their lives. Consequently, if I come across any news or events that I am interested it, I would have invest more time and effort to know more about it. In order to know more about something, I would have questions left to be answered.

If the minister does not like people to "question" them on their policies, then why on earth try to convey the information in the first place? Did he think that we are just robots that just receive input and get on with our daily activities without bordering to ask anything?

Talking about entertainment, don't you think we ought to have a glimpse of the entertainment that is happening in our Parliament? I bet people will even pay to watch some of our so-called leaders make a clown out of themselves in the August House (shouting the actual "racist" word repeatedly non-stop sounds like entertainment to me).

One more thing, why is the government allocating more and more money to a ministry that has admittedly failed to live up to the money? Why can't we put the money into better use instead of investing into a business with no return or benefits?

This is truly entertaining !!