Notes from Nusa Dua
Spend around one hour watching, and you can pretty much determine which brand has the most money by which advertisement you already want to murder after watching it for the umpteenth time.
But what is interesting was the follow-up coverage by local press, from the night itself up to the next day.If you were one of those keeping track of Sandi’s habit of sipping on lemon-infused water, there were just too many stories to count — much to the chagrin of someone who just discovered the fact, like I was.
Such fact checking and analyses continued for the 4th round of the presidential debate between Jokowi and Prabowo last night. Human Rights Watch’s researcher Andreas Harsono even went as far as suggesting that it is simply futile for journalists to be discussing theological and philosophical truths, as they only lead to endless debates.
Veteran newsman A. Kadir Jasin summed it up nicely in the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia’s meet-the-press session last month when he chided some in the media for emphasising the emotional reactions towards the United Nations treaty. Not only did some media reports lack the objective comprehension of the issue, but worse, they may have further obfuscated the public and maliciously clouded public comprehension of what is at stake. More often than not, this was intentional, coloured by irrational ethno-religious fervour.
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