M'sia Drop in Press Freedom Index 2010!

Are Malaysian surprise?

Reporters Without Borders released their Press Freedom Index 2010 HERE which revealed that Malaysia has plunged 10 notches to 141 - notably the lowest in nine years.

We are lower the Indonesia, Singapore, Algeria, Iraq!!!

WHY??? Some of the reason given in this site includes:

• Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission's investigation into Malaysiakini's cow-head video
• the arrests of a few bloggers
• the ban on a number of books by cartoonist Zunar
• the action taken wrt Kim Quek and his book "The March to Putrajaya"
• recent news that social networking sites will be monitored
• the recent sacking of media personnel in a tv station and a radio station
  
• and many other reasons

The most recent case I can think of is the Home Ministry rejecting Malaysiakini's application for a printed newspaper license!

I am sure the ranking would have been lower if they had taken into consideration the following incident reported HERE by The Malaysian Insider

WHO ARE THE MAIN CULPRITS?

The Malaysian Insider and

The Malaysian Mirror will give you some clues here!

YA! MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!