It has never stopped amazing me how much the alternative media, most especially The Internet, has seen involvement to a much greater degree than ever before. Sure the Opposition parties and the Governing coalition have always had their website’s before where to a certain degree information of the informative type besides the normal rhetoric and propaganda can be found.
However Election’08 has seen this trend taking a life of its own and progressing to previously unseen levels of information dissemination. I myself being of the Internet generation have always relied on getting my information from various sources via the net. A very strong argument that I myself subscribe to is that the local media be it the newspapers, televisions or radios – all are to an unbelievable degree in bed with the Barisan National government. And as I’m feeling the election fever let me go so far as to specifically to put a name to the face behind all the media restrictions, yup unsurprisingly its none other than UMNO.
Getting back to the issue of this post is my desire to highlight the various website’s, news portals, blogs and any other online resource that the average Malaysian surfer can visit to get the unbiased version of election related news. The following is a list of some of the best online unfiltered & unbiased sites around.
Malaysia 12th General Elections Resource Page – Election 2008
The grand-daddy of listings of any and all of Malaysia’s general election 2008 related sites, blogs, information, manifestos and etc. A must visit for any intrepid netizen looking for information from the mundane to the specific.
Malaysia Votes
First kicked of by 3 seasoned journalist and now with great contribution posts that any voter would find to be most informative if not relevant. As stated on the website cum blog
The news site aims, wherever possible, to provide news about the main issues that the nation is grappling with as we go to the polls, as well as news on the elections that would not gain either the attention of or fair coverage from the traditional media in Malaysia.
Komas – Voters Rights
For the first time voter who happen to be looking out for the basic information on voting such as do & don’ts, Komas Voters Rights does a bang-up job in presenting the information in eye catching cartoon animations & video dramas. I personally found the video aptly titled “Dah Dafter ke Belum?” to have a hilariously funny comparison of likening smokers as contributors of the countries economy who are willing to lay down their lives for the countries sake!
Undi.info
An election portal by Malaysiakini which has historical data on the last general election along with some other details all nicely laid out in hierarchal methods of state and parliamentary levels. Also readers will find like to other Malaysiakini’s blog posts, news & articles directly related to the election. Plus come election day the site will be updated to reflect the voting results for Election 2008.
Malaysiakini Youtube Channel
Malaysiakini’s Youtube channel has long provide video clips on all issues & news they have reported on. Now serving a bumper of election related videos, this is the No. 1 place of interest from the Youtube generation.
