No, brats, K&M is not short for KaliMullah or Khairy&Maya.
K&M stands for Kereta & Motosikal, Berita Harian's 16-page Saturday special making its debut today on test-drives, the latest models and car ads.
K&M is BH's carbon-copy of the extremely succesful CBT (Cars, Bikes and Trucks) initiated for NST by Yamin Vong, a former Business Times journalist and a renowned 4x4 man, when Ahmad A. Talib was the group editor of the (broadsheet) NST.
This K&M pull-out is the brainchild of Hishamuddin Aun, the NSTP group editor-in-chief. Until early this week, however, even the BH group editor Manja Ismail was said to have not been officially informed of the K&M project.
As this is the age where some editors unabashedly involve themselves (or their wives) in business, the secrecy accorded this project has raised (and will raise) some very obvious questions, especially so when the contract to produce the K&M is beijng awarded to Wave Marketing Sdn Bhd, a virtually unknown firm in the publishing business owned by a pal of Hishamuddin and Kalimullah Hassan's.
A couple of years ago, Yamin's CBT inspired me to create MailMotor, the sexy auto section of the (old) Malay Mail.
Haiyaaaa...bro, I'd prefer to hear what's all this juicy stories about Kairy & Maya lah !
ReplyDeleteHishamulin Aun elitor Half Past Six looo.
ReplyDeleteIni macam punya olang pun ada. Siapa lia punya nama....Hishamulin Aun...(Aun apa macam bunyi...selupa Soh Chin Aun punya plonounciation ka?...Suluh dia balik kampung tanam kacang la....suluh dia punya bini jadi elotor...dia ingat itu Belita Halian lia punya duit beli ka...lia sulah failed itu bikin pulout I-kon, untuk lemaja, EPG (Emas, Perak dan Gangsa) untuk sukan tapi apa sulah jadi...iklan pun tataka mali juga. Kita punyai CEO tak tau apa dia bikin...tak ada idea ka? Hishamulin....kasi losak itu Belita Halian...sekalang sulah jatuh teluk ho...meeting keluar saja kawan-kawan kata...macam teluk....kita olang manyak susah hati sebab ini kali bonus tuntu tatak punya lagi. Cakap sama dia.."Lu Half Past Six punya elitor la...". Kita olang pun cali peluang untuk belahhhh..cali keleja balu...envilonment dulu dengan sekalang...sudah manyak beza.......puit...
Bro Rocky,
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Datuk Manja was kept in the dark?
Give the bloke a chance. Be charitable. Who knows Mr GEIC knows what it means.
ReplyDeleteMaya in Sanskrit means illusion. When in Jalan Riong, I met Maya many times.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt she's beautiful. She's also intelligent. With his cosmopolitant upbringing, I am sure Khairy finds a female like Maya "exciting". I am not suggesting that there's something in the air. But ACCIDENT happens. Or as some of my hiburan kaki said, ACCIDENT had happened before. A savvy guy like Khairy can arrange many unexpected things, like making MCA Youth very angry. He warned Umno Youth in Jerlun to be mindful of the Chinese. But who made him and ECM Libra rich?
Oi libutmali, lu jangan kasi ribut. Kalau berani kenalkan diri lah. Jadi anak jantan. Jangan baling batu sembunyi tangan. Buat apa kau peleceh Hishamuddin Aun kan ke dia tu kita punya bos. Kita mesti pertahankan dia sebab dia bos kita. Nanti kalau semua orang tahu pasal dia, mana kita nak tunjuk muka. Sebetulnya, I pun dah malu lah, terutamanya bila baca tulisan dia. Alamak tak sampai taraf lah. Tulis berita sukan bolehlah...kenal pemain dan tahu rule of the game, dah cukup, dah boleh tulis penuh satu page..tak ada orang nak question.Betullah lu cakap libut mali, half past six punya elidor.
ReplyDeleteOi libutmali, lu jangan kasi ribut. Kalau berani kenalkan diri lah. Jadi anak jantan. Jangan baling batu sembunyi tangan. Buat apa kau peleceh Hishamuddin Aun kan ke dia tu kita punya bos. Kita mesti pertahankan dia sebab dia bos kita. Nanti kalau semua orang tahu pasal dia, mana kita nak tunjuk muka. Sebetulnya, I pun dah malu lah, terutamanya bila baca tulisan dia. Alamak tak sampai taraf lah. Tulis berita sukan bolehlah...kenal pemain dan tahu rule of the game, dah cukup, dah boleh tulis penuh satu page..tak ada orang nak question.Betullah lu cakap libut mali, half past six punya elidor.
ReplyDeleteehhh... ini macam blog NSTP je... pusing-pusing kat korang je... huahuhuah
ReplyDeleteIni pemerhati dari Jalan Chan Sow Lin
alamak brader rocky, saya ada buat komen respon kat pemerhati jalan chan show lin, tapi tertinggal kat dalam posting lagi satu - sunday fabricators.
ReplyDeleteharap maklum.
wetbenang, cantik bro punyer speks! regarding datuk manja, saya tak periksa sebab apa dia diberitahu pada saat-saat akhir berkenaan dengan pull-out K&M tu. my source di BH kata mungkin sebab ni "projek GEIC". lagipun si christie, boss wave marketing yang dibawa khas untuk project GEIC ni, adalah kawan baik hisham dan bukan kawan manja.
ReplyDeletewartawan BH yang biasa buat pandu uji dari zaman Roda Riong pun ada yang mengaku tak tahu langsung pasal K&m dan pasal bawak orang luar untuk bikin pull-out tu.
lepas diorang tengok pull-out yang tak seberapa tu, ada yang komen .. "tulah, tak nak warga BH sendiri buat, nak kawan2 jugak, hah rasakan .."
tapi elok kalau tanya datuk manja sendiri. atau geic.
adoi mak! Diorang sekarang di NST tak malu-malu, tak segan silu buat kerja macam ni. This is a moral issue But then, what can we expect from bosses (GEIC, no less) of NST. Kalimuillah has paved the dirty way in NST, so hishamudin aun -- who is just so too thankful to be GEIC -- unashamedly ikut jejak dia lah.
ReplyDeleteWhy should hishamudin give the BH boys to do is. If there is money to be made, he will seize it. Make hay while the sun shines. Itu lah mantra hishamudin. Believe you me, bro... my BH contacts tell me how contemptuous many BH boys and girls are of hishamudin.
and let me tell you something else....hishamudin doesn't care.
So sad that NST & BH have become a garbage run by unscruplous people who do not know the difference between right & wrong.
ReplyDeleteAre they running a newspaper or what?
Aiya...anakLima...apasai lu malah sama gua..gua cuma mahu kasi lu satu lahasia...itu manja ha...kalau lu compare sama geic ha....gua ingat dia lagi baguslah...kalau lu kasi lua-lua pelegi sepuluh assignments yang sama, balik suluh lua-lua buat stoly ha...gua rasa sepuluh-sepuluh lu akan kata manja punya lebih baik punya...itu pasai dia tatak kasi manja campur tangan itu K&M...sebab nanti kasi losak dia punya ploglam.
ReplyDeletein another time, another place, under a professional management, hishamudin is a complete write-off.
ReplyDeletegranted that under previous NST editorial management/administration, there had been some indiscretions, irregularities.weaknseses. Datuk A Kadir Jasin had had his weaknesses, so did PC Shivadas. Even under the late Dr Noordin. And Dr Munir. Of course, under Ahmad Talib.
But, nothing beats the management under Kalimulah.
I prefer not to consider the present management to be under hishamudin. neither to be under brendan.
it is kalimulah's management. he calls the shots.
saya pinta disini agar jangan membuat pebandingan antara Datuk hishamudin Aun dengan datuk manja ismail.
ReplyDeletehishamudin memang fasih dalam bahasa inggeris dan manja mungkin tidak berapa fluent dan articulate. tetapi itu sahaja kelebihan hishamudin. tapi dari segi kecekapan, kebolehan, kemahiran professional sebagai se orang wartawan, apa tah lagi, editor, saya rasa hishamudin tu poor comparison lah. saya tahu datuk manja has the respect of his peers. walaubagaimana pun, kalau nak kritik manja sekarang ni -- kita boleh kritik diri beliau sebagai seorang editor -- sama ada beliau ada keberanian atau tidak. sama ada beliau hanya mementingkan kedudukan beliau, at the expense of the integrity of the newspaper and organisation. soal kewibawaan beliau.
Rocky!
ReplyDeleteToo much credit to Yamin la.
Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Yamin, but do give yourself and your former MM team some credit for the creation of Mail Motor.
Even if there was no CBT, we would've still created (the sexy) Mail Motor.
I'm sure you are not surprised to know now that in the late 90s, before you joined MM, a few petrolheads at MM proposed (many, many times, at that) the idea of a motoring pullout to Fauzi, the Michael Chong lover Lee Boon Siew (no, not that Penang one) and other top dudes at MM and NSTSB.
Forget about Sunday Mail - filled with aunties who only want to fill the pages with pix of their clothes designer/socialite friends, other than photos of pets, childrens' drawings and English celebs.
For some reason, Fauzi was too busy with other things (tak tau la apa bendanya) to care and BSiew simply hated the idea of his reporters (esp the Malays) to have a bit of fun.
Those two clowns didn't realise that they could have elevated their respective statuses (and made money from ads too!) as MM bosses and also improved MM reporters' skills, hence elevating the newspaper's image, bla bla bla...
i agree with anonymous (on some points) about the creation of mail motor.
ReplyDeletei do believe that even without CBT, you would have worked towards producing mail motor, with your MM boys.
it was something whose time had come,anyway. only your sense of professionalism to elevate the MM enabled it to be realised.
cheers and happy blogging bro.
(PS: anonymous, that was a bit naughty there when you made references to "aunties" of sunday mail. Nanti kau!)
alooo kawan tak sesuai aa banding manja n he-shamed....seriously manja way off better than he-shamed..he-shamed cant write n of course cant analyze..have u seen him presenting any paper work at any seminar..i for real wanted to see his real talent if he has any..but nope he s just good at manipulating people and situations...guess he really is a good protege of his mentor u know who..manja is different he may not know how to speak english fluently but he can write analyze and not afraid of asking real questions..but now i think his hands is tied bcoz he shamed afraid that manja will overtake him if u guys come to jln riong u ll see manja is loved by more ppl than he-shamed...so heshamed or hisham if u read this give manja a chance to prove himself and u get lost....
ReplyDeletealooo kawan tak sesuai aa banding manja n he-shamed....seriously manja way off better than he-shamed..he-shamed cant write n of course cant analyze..have u seen him presenting any paper work at any seminar..i for real wanted to see his real talent if he has any..but nope he s just good at manipulating people and situations...guess he really is a good protege of his mentor u know who..manja is different he may not know how to speak english fluently but he can write analyze and not afraid of asking real questions..but now i think his hands is tied bcoz he shamed afraid that manja will overtake him if u guys come to jln riong u ll see manja is loved by more ppl than he-shamed...so heshamed or hisham if u read this give manja a chance to prove himself and u get lost....
ReplyDeleteTerror sangat ka depa2 kat nst tu? yang hangpa dok cerita pasai depa?. Hisham tu tau ka pasai bisnes? Suruh dia berenti nst dan buat bisnes sendiri tengok.. Baru dia tau langit tinggi rendah. Kata nak tolong melayu!! Kenapa pulak si christie tu tetiberrr jerr muncul? Mesti masyuk punya tu...!!!
ReplyDeleteHai Hisham, jaga2... sejak bila pandai buat bisnes ni? Baik2 kantoi!!!!
Dulu hang tibai Hafifi dengan KB...Sampai kena buang... Hang Jaga2 depa dok tunggu hang buat silap aja...
Cadangan utk rocky's bru,
Hang buat la UNDI macam undian sms TV3 tu... Tapi fokus pasai org NST aja. Sebab nst dah semakin fofular skang nih!! Contohnya hang buat macam ni... SETUJUKAH ANDA HISHAM AUN MENGGANTIKAN TEMPAT CEO NST SYED FAIZAL? Pilih A: setuju B: tak kot.. C: test 5 bulan D: test 3 hari.. (contoh aja la!!!)
Rasanya, ramai yang komen pasal Hisham bukan apa, sebab dia tak nampak pun buat apa-apa untuk elokkan NST dan Berita Harian. Apa yang dia buat semua tak menjadi...K&M lagi satu bahana yang dia bawa ke Berita Harian. Kita orang juga yang menderita. Ads dah lah kurang, circulation pula dah jatuh sampai ada harinya 180,000 naskah je. Kalau tak ada pasal Didik, dah pi dah. Dia langsung tak ada idea yang betul-betul ummmmp. Lepas tu, cakap besarlah juga..buat komen yang yang orang rasa nak termuntah. Dia kena belajar fikir logik. Kalau tak tau, tutup mulut jer...., jangan nak komen apa-apa. Biar diam, sebab orang tak tau yang engkau tak tau...tapi kalau buka mulut bercakap benda yang kau tak tau, orang akan tau yang engkau tak tau. Betul tak?.
ReplyDeleteLagi pun dia cakap tak serupa bikin. Dulu, dia dok berjanji dengan kita orang pasal ex-G, pasal bonus, pasal gaji dll. Kalau kau dapat input dari Syed Faizal atau Kalimullah, tak payah nak cerita kat kita orang lah atau dalam meeting...kita orang gelak dalam hati je...semua tak betul tu. Kau juga bila bercakap macam tak ada hati perut dengan staff..sampai ada yang terpaksa berhenti sebab tak mahu pindah KL...apa perlu kau gunakan bahasa yang tak sepatutnya...kecik hati kawan-kawan.
Kau tau tak yang hari ini NST dah hancur sehancur-hancurnya akibat Kalimullah dan dibantu pula oleh orang macam Syed Faizal, Brendan (Brendan kena sebut dulu dari kau sebab dia lebih bagus dan lebih power) dan kau lah...HALF PAST SIX. Kau tau tak apa makna sebetulnya Half Past Six tu? Aku rasa kau pun tak tau...Aku gerenti punyalah. Bila tepat pukul jam 6.30 nanti, kau perhatikan betul-betul jam kau tu, tengok kat mana dua-dua jarum tu. Kemudian kau matikan baterinya. Biarkan dia kat situ lama-lama. Kau anggaplah jam itu rosak dan spring dah patah...itulah ENGKAU...terkulai layu.
(Aku ambik tang sana, aku bubuh mai sini.. baru hangpa boleh baca!!!)
ReplyDeleteCuba tanya Hisham tu!!!. Mana pegi Datuk Hafifi Hafidz? Tetiba aja hilang.? Dulu katanya kawan baik. Bila Hafifi sakit, dia ambik advantage terus lenyapkan orang itu kononnya dah tak boleh buat kerja jadi editor metro takut Hafifi salah deside artickle front page jadi politik. Dulu hafifi Glamour, dia jeles... Hafifi selalu keluaqkan front or pg.3 muka Najib, dia marah sangat.. mungkin Kali dah jelin kat kat dia kot... Yang si CEO NSTP plak pak hangguk, turut dibuangnya legal nstp Kamaruddin Baba,.. CEO nst ni dengaq kata cakap tak serupa bikin. Lembut kepala lutut dari lidah. Tapi kalau bab-bab betina, dia dengan Hisham Aun tu sama-sama menggeletik. Hangpa toksah dok sorok la... kami tau la hangpa dok pi karaoke dengan sapa!!!
Pompuan2 yang dok pi ngan hangpa, depa dok cerita balik kat kami.... perangai hang pa kat dalam tu... Tu pun kira nasib baik la.. Datin2 hang pa tak tau....
Jangan pulak ada sapa2 ambik link dari blok ni dok pi hantaq kat email Datin2 depa sudah la.... Kacau bila sat lagi......
Bab Kamarudin Baba pulak,
Din Baba ni kamcing dengan hafifi. kononnya depa dua orang ni salah guna kuasa dan rasuah... Yang depa ni pulak pasai apa diam..., file aja saman kat mahkamah. This is the right time untuk Datuk hafifi dan Kamarudin take action pada Hisham dan Syed Faizal(ceo nst)...
YANG SEBENAR-BENARNYA... Orang2 yang dibawah Kali(muthu) tu semua dah kena suap.. tapi dengan apa tak taula..... Kita tunggu dan lihat aja lahhh!!! Dengaq kata sebelah nstp tu ada night club bertaraf antarangsa(karaoke korek) sapa2 nak tengok Hisham, CEO Nstp dengan perempuan2 gro, boleh la melawat ke AVENUE betul2 sebelah bilik hisham dan CEO nstp. Depa yang mintak AVENUE dari BSC pindah kesitu supaya senang....... bila Datin tanya... I kat opis.....(rupanya bukan kat opis, tapi sebelah opis.)
One day aku nak bawak cnn dengan rtm(datuk zam mesti seronok punya!)(tv3 tak boleh, sebab tv3 geng depa jugak) dengan jabatan agama islam buat serbuan kat Avenue tu..... Cekup kepala-kepala nst buat maksiat.
Ada sumber-sumber yang boleh percayai telah memberitahu bahawasanya HISHAM PUN SEKARANG NI DAH MENJADI JUTAWAN... FUHHH SYABASSS!!!!
ReplyDeleteMai secawan!
It seem that staff correspondents of NST have been told that Kalimullah and Brendan will be leaving any time, latest before year end. CEO and GEIC should follow suit because two of them are proven not capable to improve the business of NSTP and upgrade the quality of all the newspapers. We hope someone better and unbias will be appointed to replace them. It will happen, we hope it will be happened...no more compromise.
ReplyDeleteLama tak dengar nama Dato´ Hafifi. Diam sihat kut. Dulu masa Hafifi dapat Dato´ dari Nelaka, dengar ceritanya Hishamuddin dok rata tanya orang, apa pasai Hafifi dapat Dato´ship. Dia dok call sampai ke Melaka...dia dok check siapa yang recomend Hafifi dapat Dato´. Sampai begitu sekalilah si Hishamuddin ni marah kat Hafifi. Sedangkan pada masa tu dia dah tahu yang dia akan dapat Dato´ Selangor. Tapi dek Hafifi dapat dulu, dia tak puas hati. Manja pun patut dapat Dato´ Melaka, tetapi sebab hebuh pasai Hishamuddin pergi check pasal Hafifi, maka Melaka tak jadi bagi pada Manja. Itulah kalau dapat bos yang selalu rasa dia kurang dari orang lain. Kalau nak bandingkan kemampuan Hafifi dengan Hishamuddin dari segi apa sekali pun, rasanya Hishamuddin is nothing. Hafifi boleh gigit dia anytime. Pejam mata pun Hafifi boleh makan dia. Gua taulah babe sebab dia dok bantu gua dan kawan-kawan dapatkan ads. Dia kata jadi, mesti jadi punya. Hishamuddin tau apa?.
ReplyDeleteBetul lah kau cakap tu anonymous. Bila pegi assignment ada budak TV3 bagitau yang depa kadang kala kena arah cover function Berita Harian.Reporter lain tak datang pun. Yang ada reporter/cameraman Berita Harian dengan TV3 je. Patutlah...rupa-rupanya assignment sendiri punya bisnes. Apa taknya, bini dia ada kat situ, sibuk uruskan majlis tu. Takkan begitu sekali kut salah guna kedudukan.
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