FYI, The Jesselton Times isn't really an official newspaper. It is just the product of a sudden urge to rant about happenings in my beloved hometown, Jesselton. Hopefully, this 'urge' will continue to burn as much as my love for Jesselton. Some may ask 'why blog?'. As much as animals and humans have the urge to reproduce, it is just the same to blog and rant. Maybe it's this exhibitionist side of me..a less sexual type of exhibitionism where the pleasure of knowing that people are reading your rantings excites you.
Recently, the power of cyberspace news had flexed its muscle especially in Malaysia's recent 12th General Elections. During the run-up to the GE, I have been reading a lot of interesting blogs and websites like http://malaysia-today.net/ and of course http://www.malaysiakini.com/. I was (I stress the word WAS) an avid reader of http://www.thestar.com.my/ especially during my uni days when Malaysian news in Aussie was as scarce as their water supply. But those days are gone when I decided to go ahead with a personal boycott after The Star, without shame, posted very bias news without seeing the negative impact on their paymaster, the Government. The political news here (in fact all types of news posted) will be, we hope, as neutral as possible. At least we'll try :)
Anyway, that's politics and we at TJT aim to use cyberspace to not only create political awareness amongst Jesseltonites, but to promote Jesselton to the world and bring about changes in the way news about this beautiful city is presented.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
The Jesseltonite
Chief Editor
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