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The front page of The Star, the best selling English newspaper in Malaysia. Despite being linked to MCA, it has a larger readership than New Straits Times.
The front page of today's New Straits Times, owned by a company controlled by UMNO. Notice how they play the issue. 
The upper portion of today's Daily Express front page. The full headline should read: SAPP's 'no faith in PM' shocker. Daily Express is owned by the family of the late Tan Sri Yeh Pau Tzu, comrade-in-arm of the late Tun Fuad since the birth of Berjaya.
The lower half of the front page of today's Daily Express. Notice story about SAPP deputy president and Deputy Chief Minister Raymond Tan who was absent yesterday.
The Borneo Post (Sabah edition)'s front page today. There is also a Sarawak edition owned by the same company whose headquarters is in Sarawak, Sabah's neighbour.
The New Sabah Times' front page today. Notice that while other papers use Yong's statement as the headline, this paper uses the Prime Minister's comment. SAPP president Yong Teck Lee' bombshell yesterday was, as expected, given frontpage headline treatment by all newspapers in Malaysia today. I reproduced here the front pages of today's edition of 3 local (Sabah) and 2 national (Malaysia) newspapers.
There are two reasons why I'm doing this. Firstly, it is for the benefit of non-Malaysians in general and non-Sabahans in particular. I mean, if the bombshell was given front page treatment all over the country, it certainly attract interest or readership.
Secondly, I have learnt a valuable lesson ever since I started going to the archives after I began my blog about a year ago. That lesson is simple - save (in the computer) news reports of interesting and historical events that may turn out useful or sought-after years from now.
Remember the old Sabah newspapers I reproduced about the birth of Berjaya and the Double Six plane crash? The 1975-6 newspapers I found in the archives were no longer in good condition, some pages even half-torn while other pages or an entire edition went missing. Lucky I still managed to photostat the relevant front pages for you so far, but the next time I may not be so lucky.
Yet another reason is so that my blog's visitors can see and judge for themselves how each paper play up (or down) the issue or the kind of treatment each paper gives to the issue. The two national papers (Star and New Straits Times) whose front pages I reproduce here are from the mainstream media of Malaysia while Daily Express, the Borneo Post and New Sabah Times are regional papers based in the east Malaysian state of Sabah. New Straits Times is controlled by UMNO while the Star by MCA. Both UMNO and MCA are component parties of Malaysia's ruling coalition, BN. New Sabah Times is controlled by the family of Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Musa Aman who is also from UMNO. Daily Express and Borneo Post are strictly business concerns, although formerly Daily Express was regarded the unofficial mouthpiece of the now-defunct Berjaya party which ruled Sabah from 1976-1985.
(Please click on the images for a larger view.)
There are two reasons why I'm doing this. Firstly, it is for the benefit of non-Malaysians in general and non-Sabahans in particular. I mean, if the bombshell was given front page treatment all over the country, it certainly attract interest or readership.
Secondly, I have learnt a valuable lesson ever since I started going to the archives after I began my blog about a year ago. That lesson is simple - save (in the computer) news reports of interesting and historical events that may turn out useful or sought-after years from now.
Remember the old Sabah newspapers I reproduced about the birth of Berjaya and the Double Six plane crash? The 1975-6 newspapers I found in the archives were no longer in good condition, some pages even half-torn while other pages or an entire edition went missing. Lucky I still managed to photostat the relevant front pages for you so far, but the next time I may not be so lucky.
Yet another reason is so that my blog's visitors can see and judge for themselves how each paper play up (or down) the issue or the kind of treatment each paper gives to the issue. The two national papers (Star and New Straits Times) whose front pages I reproduce here are from the mainstream media of Malaysia while Daily Express, the Borneo Post and New Sabah Times are regional papers based in the east Malaysian state of Sabah. New Straits Times is controlled by UMNO while the Star by MCA. Both UMNO and MCA are component parties of Malaysia's ruling coalition, BN. New Sabah Times is controlled by the family of Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Musa Aman who is also from UMNO. Daily Express and Borneo Post are strictly business concerns, although formerly Daily Express was regarded the unofficial mouthpiece of the now-defunct Berjaya party which ruled Sabah from 1976-1985.
(Please click on the images for a larger view.)
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