Hope you indulge me lots today as I just traversed from http://www.bakrimusa.com and I added my 3sen worth’s to an ANON commenter’s two main points:

Holding ex-PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad accountable for 22 years reign during which he destroyed, disembowelled all the four Estates — Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and Media/Press. I comented birefly on the infant Fifth Estate involving Bloggers.

The “more relevant” point was Anon’s challenge to Bakri and a regular Guest Writer Din Merican for their “sycophantic” support for Dr Mahathir in their writes, which I too echoed and called on the two to reply/rebut.

Similarly this point of “Sycophancy” in news treatment by the MSM, esp UMNO-controlled The New Straits Times, and several of the former GEICs and senior Editors from NSTP have taken to Blogging (one is now involved in one of the two defamation suits). The test again I would ask of these ex-NSTP-turned-Bollgers is: Are they not equally, if not more, guilty of propagating the news in their MSM heydays just akin to present “being geared toward a full scale war on prevailing opinion”.
I have voiced my opinions strongly in Bakri’s blog, so I won’t bore repeatiung similar views on your current “mainstream” media review ~~ Times remain almost the same, it’s chganging of the casts….

PS: APologise for slight Digression/aggresion, my bad habit even as a Guest! To show Repentance, I would like to render assitance to help thee in starting an Onion…I do the peeling, OK!:)

@drew: Actually, if you read posts of most bloggers, they get their material from news sources. That’s first and foremost. Then they dissect what is reported by the mainstream media and give their opinion about it - the basis is always, always the facts (or the way the facts are reported) by the mainstream media.

Bloggers rarely make categorically assertions about events which they wish their readers to regard as facts, in my opinion.

For other bloggers like A Kadir Jasin, Jeff Ooi and Rocky, they may make statements but I’ve yet to see all three make potentially dangerous accusations without at least some modicum of fact gathered independently.

But some don’t. And those who don’t shouldn’t.