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Irresponsible media continued with their campaign of lies against the DAP even on Polling Day

Media Statement
by Lim Kit Siang

(Petaling Jaya, Monday): Last Saturday, I said that the 1999 general election is one where the Malaysian press will forever hold their heads in shame at the most unbelievably unethical and irresponsible journalism.

The irresponsible media continued with their campaign of lies against the DAP even on Polling Day itself, when all campaigning should end.

Today’s Star for instance carried a false report under the heading "Opposition set to capture Penang, says Lim", with the following report:

"Penang: The Barisan Alternatif has predicted it will take over Penang with the DAP claiming 14 seats and Parti Keadilan Nasional getting eight in the 33-seat state assembly.

"DAP secretary-general Lim Kit Siang’s statement yesterday reversed his earlier claim that the party was only interested in denying the Barisan Nasional a two-thirds majority".

This is a lie for I had never departed from my statement right from the beginning of the general election campaign that the objective of the DAP is to break the political hegemony of the Barisan Nasional by denying it two-thirds majority whether in Parliament or in the Penang State Assembly.

Today’s Sun in a report under the heading, "Kit Siang has second thoughts about teaming up with PAS" is another distortion, for I had never made any such statement at all.

After the general election, the most disgraceful journalistic chapter of the Malaysian mass media in their reportage and coverage of the dirtiest general election in history should be the subject of the most intense scrutiny and expose.

(29/11/99)

*Lim Kit Siang - DAP Secretary-General

Irresponsible media continued with their campaign of lies against the DAP even on Polling Day

Media Statement by Lim Kit Siang

Media Statement
by Lim Kit Siang