[1475] Of The Liars’ Papers

This is just too good to let go.

Earlier friend Howsy highlighted a discovery by Cakap Tak Serupa Bikin .Howsy aptly calls his post “Fake Merdeka Centre ‘Street Protests’ Survey: Results Produced Even Before Survey Conducted!”

Why is that so? Well, see it for yourself and be mindful of the dates (taken from Cakap Tak Serupa Bikin):

Too small? Well, the second paragraph reads:

This was revealed in a survey conducted by the Merdeka Centre between Dec 17 and Dec 21. [‘No’ to street protests. The Star. December 17 2007]

For larger view, click here.

As mentioned by Howsy, today is December 17 and if the statement in the article were true, the result would be out before it could come in! Nothing less than magic!

Go get the dead tree edition quick and parade the copy to the whole wide world. In fact, parade it to the Information Minister’s residence!

Later, perhaps realizing that the mistakes or just maybe, realizing that bloggers are feasting on The Star, they deleted the dates from the online version. The second paragraph then read:

This was revealed in a survey conducted recently by the Merdeka Centre. [‘No’ to street protests. The Star. December 17 2007]

After awhile, the paragraph was yet amended to put in new dates. Currently as of 17:00 local time, it reads:

This was revealed in a survey conducted by the Merdeka Centre from Dec 7 to 12. [‘No’ to street protests. The Star. December 17 2007]

So, is this a case of misplaced 1’s, too much spinning until the editors dazed himself up or the invention of time machine?

Just in case The Star decides to amend its article again, this is the screenshot of the article at about 17:00.

p/s — Desi followed up on the matter. The Star has yet to, however.