Mahathir snubs Western journalists for being no better than those they criticise.
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has knocked Western journalists off their “moral high ground”, saying they, too, are not above sidelining human rights to serve their own interests.
His latest blog post referred to the high-profile telephone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, which involved British tabloid, News of The World.
The 168-year-old paper, owned by powerful media mogul Rupert Murdoch, was forced to shut down after its journalists were accused of being engaged in phone hacking and police bribery.
Mahathir said that Malaysians are so used to the moral high ground taken by the Western press that they cringe when the former criticises Malaysia over its poor human rights records and injustices perpetrated against others.
‘Western media no purveyors of truth’
