Berita Harian played up beer-drinkers at PAS operations centre

This beer-drinking pic appeared on page 1 of Berita Harian on 20 March, with a screaming headline, "Markas Pas sedia minuman keras". It was placed on top of the page.

Here are the first two paras of the news report to give you a sense of how the 'incident' was pitched by the daily:

"Dalam keghairahan Pas menarik sokongan pengundi Cina, sebuah markas jentera pilihan raya Pas di Wakaf Tapai dekat sini (Marang) dilapor menyediakan minuman keras kepada petugas dan pengunjung bukan Islam.

"Malah, akhbar China Press keluaran Rabu lalu turut menyiarkan berita mengenainya selain memaparkan tiga lelaki Cina memegang tin bir di dalam markas itu."

Blog visitor Kurang Asam notes: "Nowadays, Malaysia newspapers are not even fit to wrap nasi lemak. I wonder why people buy these papers. They should be paying us instead to read them, for all the emotional and mental damages that one may suffer later on in life."

Umm, maybe Malaysians buy the papers for the comics, Kurang Asam, or they want to see how Arsenal, Chelsea and Man U are faring? hehe