Anwar vanishes along with crime wave

Anwar Ibrahim underwent surgery in Munich on Monday night (Malaysian time) as the world media looked on. The surgery proved to be a success and Anwar was able to walk a little after that.

But nothing much on Anwar’s condition yesterday and today in The Star, which only carried a small report today on the Federal Court decision allowing his appeal to be reviewed. That was on page 10, mind you.

By today, no report about the outcome of his operation – even though his successful op had hit the international news on Tuesday.

News of the boy with the bird flu-like symptoms being placed under quarantine in Kota Baru was relegated to page 6 today.

And what news item did the self-styled “People’s Paper” choose to place (with pictures) instead on its front page today? News of Vijay Singh replacing Tiger Woods as World No. 1 in golf.

Has The Star lost the plot completely?

Unlike The Star, theSun, to its credit, front-paged the news about the Federal Court decision on whether to proceed with Anwar’s corruption review. But it chose to play safe by relying on a report by national news agency Bernama.

It looks like Anwar has disappeared from the main pages of certain newspapers, just like the crime wave, which seems to have vanished into thin air as far as the papers are concerned. Crime wave? What crime wave? Even the regular updates on the sex/murder trials have disappeared. What seems to be highlighted now are "feel-good" reports of victims turning the tables on the baddies...or of cops successfully apprehending criminal suspects.

Hmm, wonder if these papers subscribe to the notion that “no news (or less prominently placed negative news) is good news.”