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>From The Straits Times Saturday 11/11/2000
10,000 at rally but PAS says it's
100,000
The opposition party's Harakah
newspaper inflates the number
of protesters at Sunday's
demonstration given by two Chinese
newspapers
By LESLIE LAU
IN KUALA LUMPUR
THE opposition Islamic Party of
Malaysia (PAS) showed it was ever
ready to raise the stakes in its
political challenge to the government
when it exaggerated figures to
show that 100,000 people attended an
opposition rally last Sunday when
the real number was closer to
10,000.
To prove its case, PAS claimed in
the latest issue of its party organ
Harakah that the headlines of two
local Chinese newspapers proved
100,000 people attended the rally
and not 1,000 as claimed by Malay
daily Utusan Malaysia.
The rally in Selangor was
organised by opposition parties to demand
the release of jailed former
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim.
The Harakah story compared a
report in Utusan Malaysia, which they
say is pro-government, to reports
in Sin Chew Jit Poh and China Press.
It also printed photographs of
banner headlines from the two Chinese
newspapers and an excerpt from
the Utusan Malaysia article, with the
heading of ""Who Is Lying'' to
highlight their point.
But what the headlines in the two
newspapers actually said was that
there was nearly 10,000 and not
100,000 people at the rally.
Both the Sin Chew Jit Poh and
China Press headlines actually read:
""Nearly 10,000 People At
Opposition Rally''.
Harakah's story also quoted an
opposition party leader Rustam Sani as
saying that anyone who reads both
the Malay and non-Malay
newspapers would notice the big
difference in journalism standards
between the two mediums.
Harakah editor Zulkifli Sulong
acknowledged the error yesterday
although he expressed surprise at
the mistake.
""I will have to check with the
person who handled the story,'' he told
The Straits Times.
He also suggested that it could
have been a typographical error.
A senior Sin Chew Jit Poh editor
said that it was obviously a mistake
because Harakah staff probably
did not know how to read Mandarin.
""If you know how to read
Mandarin then it is clear what we wrote,''
he said.
A China Press editor said the
newspaper is considering asking for a
correction from Harakah.
Harakah, which claims to have a
wide circulation of more than 100,000
readers, gave major play to the
opposition rally attended by opposition
leaders from PAS, Anwar Ibrahim's
Parti Keadilan and the Chinese
based Democratic Action Party.
It also published a wrap around
photograph on its front page of the
rally.
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