We live in the Information Age. There has been and there will continue to be an unending explosion in the field of information technology.Today we can sit in our homes and watch and hear a war as it is being fought; witness with eyes and ears a beauty contest as it is being judged and look at bugs under a microscope as it swims, via the TV screen. We see all these as they are, where they are without a second's delay.

We can watch murder as it is being committed, in all the gory details. And we can be shocked by it. But then we can also watch Anwar Ibrahim doing his 'Bersih Campaign' even as mass prostester and massacres of the most brutal kinds are being committed at that very moment.

What we see and hear and witness,is what the media decide we should see and hear and witness. If the media wants us to be shocked by the massacre, it can broadcast lurid details of that massacre. But if it chooses to broadcast HINDRAF at the time the massacre was taking place, we will be stomping our feet in total enjoyment.

Clearly the people who decide what we should see and hear hold terrible power. They can have us dancing in the streets or they can have us rioting in the streets with firebrands in our hands, burning, looting and killing.

And who controls the powerful national media? Yes, the national Governments of tiny developing nations like Malaysia.Malaysia believes in press freedom. But that freedom, as with other freedoms and rights, must be accompanied by responsibility.Many thanks to the corrupt politicians AKA full ministers and their deputy ministers and I bet Pak Lah won't get 2/3 majority as for the next coming election.