Adspaper; Newsmedia?

Q: Where do you get your news today?

A: Online medias.

Q: How do you look for advertisement?

A: Newspaper.

I read news on www.malaysiakini.com, sinchew.com.my, thestar.com.my etc daily. Occasionally, I buy newspaper on Friday or Saturday, to find out the latest hypermarket promotions, new property launch, products and services promotions.

I (we) have changed the way I get information in recent years, and it make me wonder whether the word "newspaper" still carry its original meaning? I decided to do a study, and the subject of my study is last Saturday Star "newspaper" on 23rd October, 2010.

The purpose of the study is to find out the news and advertisement content distribution on newspaper. Following is the summary:

Section	Pages	News	Advertisements
Star	72	55%	45%
Saturday Metro	56	44%	56%
Weekender	36	51%	49%
StarBizWeek	40	81%	19%
StarJobs	32	0%	100%
Classified	44	2%	98%
Overall		49%	61%

On average, 61% of what I read from that newspaper was advertisement. Well, I spent RM1.50 to buy that newspaper because I want to read the advertisement, and I got 61% of it, not bad!

But wait, isn't it newspaper? Why the content of advertisement is more than news? If I take away StarJobs and Classified which are supposed to be adspaper, the overall percentage of advertisement on the newspaper still stand at 43%, which I think is still very high.

On a typical www.malaysiakini.com news page, the percentage of advertisement is still less than 25%. Going at this trend, would newspaper eventually evolve into adspaper? And newsmedia will be the new source of news? Time will tell, and we are the one who will decide.

Note: The percentage is based on visual estimation only.

Note2: Obituary is classified as advertisement.

Note3: The result is based on a single day newspaper only.

What is Politician?

1. Take a small issue, and make it a big issue and keep reminding people about this issue. (Used to be owned by opposition, but now is applicable to all.)

2. Crave to be in the ruling party.

3. Need to make headline occasionally.

4. Work for the government and own self, and not the people. (NGOs are more efficient and effective in serving the people.)

5. Must work in pair, one liberal and one extreme.

6. Must know how to buy time, buy some more time, and some more time, and ...... till people forget what is the original issue.

7. Good in shouting through the press.

Public Security

Star Monday July 14, 2008 MYT 12:44:24 PM

Massive jams, Syed Hamid says sorry (updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: Police roadblocks leading into the city caused massive jams throughout Monday morning, with Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar issuing an apology to the Malaysian public but reiterating that the police operations were undertaken in the interest of public security.

Very keen to know what's the meaning "public security".

Wordnet's definition of "public security":
S: (n) peace, public security (the general security of public places) "he was arrested for disturbing the peace"

Wikipedia's definition of "public security":
Public security is the function of governments which ensures the protection of citizens, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being – and to the prosperity of their communities.

My stances:

Yes (as per Wordnet's definition), agreed with our Home Minister approach to maintain the "public security" at Parliament, though at the inconvenient of the general public.

No (as per Wikipedia's definition), disagreed with out Home Minister approach to deploy hundreds of police personnel to put up road blocks at the expense of the general public, when these police personnel can be better deployed to fight crime to ensure safety and security of the general public.