Cyberspace is being regarded as a new journalism media. As Internet spreads rapidly all over the world, most procedure of making news article is proceeding via Internet; collecting information and evidence, interviewing, editing, publishing, and even exchanging public issue. In other words, we arrive at Online-Journalism period. However despite its advantages such a cost and can save time online journalism still can be regarded as the new media that must be controlled as it somehow had the possibility to bring harm to social harmony especially in country such as Malaysia
Malaysia is a multiracial country that consist the Malay, Chinese and Indian plus some other minor ethnic. The bond between these ethnic had been built since 1957 where we first claimed our independent country status from the British. Since then, we live in peace and harmony in here despite I can deny the fact that there are still amount of ungrateful individuals try to corrupt the mind of citizen in Malaysia by trying to corrupt the public mind and which eventually can lead to chaos and destruction to the peace and harmony of this country.
The absolute freedom of the new media is one of the factor which one of the channel that can be viewed as the platform for the irresponsible authorities to create and spread stories that will manipulate people cognitive and behavioral to actually believe the content of the stories without thinking the main purpose of the individual doing so. For example there is online journalism site can try to convince the public that the dead of A.Kugan a car thief in police custody is because of the beaten by the Malay police officers. However after investigation being made and the truth revealed that there was also Indian police officer involved during investigation A.Kugan plus his death was not because of being beaten by the police, the site and authorities hold their tongue and remain silence regarding to the stories.
This proven that the new media tried to corrupt and manipulate the public peace and harmony by exaggerate and spice up the ethnic aspect towards the case. From this situation, I can conclude that if such matter kept occurring in the future, the peace and harmony of this nation would certainly be in jeopardy and 13 May 1969 tragedy might be repeated and collapsed the rapid movement towards becoming develop country through our vision 2020.
I cannot deny the fact that freedom is something we need in our life as but such freedom which eventually can lead to riot and chaos must be controlled. What the mean of freedom it’s if it will disturb the peace and harmony that had been built long time ago.
Adolf Hitler once said ‘’ Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it’’, well it is true. The irresponsible authorities somehow managed to manipulate people point of view through their stories. False stories about the government and surrounding will surely affect our peace and harmony. New Media is a medium for human to seek information easier and faster and it is our duty to choose what to believe or not. As human that were given brain to think, we should know better the intention of stories besides information given when we read it. So why believe in fake and false stories if it meant to disrupt the social harmony, we have to see it with our own eyes in order to believe.
Regarding to Kugan’s case, off thousands people that have been in police custody did not died and why must he’s the one that died in police custody just because of car stealing, how ironic and weird. Plus why after the truth revealed that there was also an Indian officer involve in Kugan investigation the so called online journalism people stop updating their stories. Let us be rational and think positive about their intention and put emotions aside. Assalamualaikum.
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