Tun Dr. Mahathir on media independence

Quite naturally, many people just cannot believe what Tun has been quoted as saying on his record on this particular issue of press freedom because the impression has been too deeply imprinted on the popular minds that Tun had been a "dictator" as far as media independence is concerned because, among other incidents, Sin Chew Jit Poh, The Star and Watan were closed down by executive order of the Home Minister in 1987-1988 and malaysiakini's office raided by the police in early 2003.
Could it be that Tun himself, as both Prime Minister for 23 years and Home Minister for 15 years, did not actually ring up the top editors himself but only give instructions to other to do the dirty job?

Or, it was because some media owners or secretly pro-MCA, pro-MIC, pro-Gerakan or pro-SUPP editors themselves decided for self-censorship to serve their own business, partisan or personal interests but gave other (especially junior journalists, investors, readers and the public) the false excuse that they were "oppressed " by Tun when he was the prime minister and home minister so that their hidden agenda would not be exposed?

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