Editor-in-Chief of Malay Mail Datuk Wong Sai Wan speaks during a forum at Taylor’s University in Subang Jaya September 25, 2019. — Picture by Choo Choy May
“Journalism is an expensive and addictive habit that doesn’t pay. Media is something else. Media is your entertainment. It is attention-grabbing, they are distractions. Despite that, he lamented that cost still continues to be a setback in the management of the company’s current news platform. “Who thinks about what’s the point of working for 48 hours in the last election, which is a historical moment by any company, globally, for Malaysia?” the senior broadcast journalist, who often hosts talk shows, asked.
“You see, I think, we must understand the context. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, it was about control and we don’t seem to appreciate how that control has essentially screwed up the whole media system in Malaysia,” a no-holds-barred Zaharom told the audience.