Wednesday 25 June 2008

No Press No Fun


I had the opportunity to roam around the Parliament many years ago. There are two areas in the Parliament building which I notice MPs are approachable, at the cafeteria and at the lobby. These are the places where the MPs can obviously be seen and I think they want to be seen too. There are corners where they can sit among themselves which restricted from the public and the media.

The Order to cordoned the area by the Minister In Charge of Parliament today by putting tapes around the lobby and cafeteria in order to stop the media personnel from entering these two places will only cause more loss than gain to both sides of the MPs.

The Press is only allow to enter the area during lunch break between 1pm to 2.30pm.

For what? Hunger Strike? Its lunch time, all will be out for lunch.

Later in the day, after many protests plus displeasure, I heard they lifted the Order, one of those thing we are good at, one day we banned the foreigners from buying our petrol and diesel, the next day we lifted the ban, similarly, one morning they banned the press from entering the parliament lobby, by late noon, they lifted the ban.

Just continue with the ban, we know how to catch the MPs, where and when other than the lobby and cafeteria. I am not making this up, I can never forget someone I know decided to talk to his MP in the “Gents Rest Room.”

You may try but “No Camera Please!”.

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