{"id":772,"date":"2016-03-15T05:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.moemaka.net\/?p=772"},"modified":"2016-03-15T05:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:03:36","slug":"tin-maung-htwe-media-screw-up-led-to-nlds-supporters-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2016\/03\/tin-maung-htwe-media-screw-up-led-to-nlds-supporters-furious\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Maung Htwe – Media screw-up led to NLD\u2019s supporters furious"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U Htin Kyaw, a longtime confidant of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was made known on Thursday as one of the three candidates, to become Myanmar\u2019s next president. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Albeit a low profile player, U Htin Kyaw is a graduate majored in Computer Science from University of London and also an author under the pen name \u2018Dalaban\u2019, named after a famous Mon ethnic warrior. His father was a national poet and an NLD lawmaker from 1990 election nullified by the junta while his wife is a MP representing Thongwa Township in Yangon region. <\/span><\/p>\n

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U Htin Kyaw\u2019s nomination was, however, a sudden push into the spotlight. He was tipped to be president by many locals but hardly by any international analyst. \u00a0While international reporters reacted swiftly to provide full details on U Htin Kyaw, the absence of an immediate official press release by NLD and inadequate coverage from the local press have led the international press like AFP to assert the word \u2018Ex-driver of Daw Su\u2019 as a trait of U Htin Kyaw which was very vexed by the locals. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The enragement of NLD\u2019s supporters was further fuelled by the condescending sneers and vulgarisms of the hard oppositions expressed substantially on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Egregious usage of the word \u2018driver\u2019, in the eyes of NLD supporters, was cooked up by an AFP Reporter, which made AFP probably the first and one of the outlets in initiating the \u2018driver\u2019 angle, while CNN has made its worst flawed coverage ever on NLD\u2019s nominees. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Even so this headline of AFP made its sense of using \u2018ex-driver\u2019 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ex-driver-gears-myanmar-rule-suu-kyi-still 060304355.html<\/span><\/a>), another article by AFP headlined with \u2018Suu Kyi\u2019s former driver nominated for Myanmar president\u2019 by the reporter, Hla-Hla-Htay took inauspicious failure to the claim of her colleague, Jerome Taylor, who insisted the usage was not an insult to U Htin Kyaw.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jerome said in his other tweets that AFP stood firm with its standard and even sought independent confirmation on the Oxon degree of U Htin Kyaw, which had not been verified at that point in time although numerous outlets reported in U Htin Kyaw\u2019s biography. In another tweet, Jerome explained his insistence of the apt usage of the term, driver in his own words as \u2018<\/span>The driver line is a nice way to illustrate how Suu Kyi has chosen an inner circle, close confidante to be her proxy<\/span><\/i>.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, he has yet to explain whether AFP has done their part to verify the profession of U Htin Kyaw as a full-time chauffeur of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Even though the intention can be considered \u2018genuine\u2019, there was an account where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s chef, U Myint Soe has answered to Irrawaddy Press that U Htin Kyaw had never been employed or appointed as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s chauffeur. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The AFP\u2019s amendment of the headline of this article (http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/suu-kyis-former-driver-nominated-myanmar-president-035833630.html) appeared on Yahoo News was also questionable as it seemed that AFP is reacting to public criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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AFP\u2019s article appeared on Yahoo before its headline was amended<\/span><\/p>\n

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Along the way the most unpleasant thing for NLD\u2019s supporters is that their haters took the term \u2018driver\u2019 as a trait of NLD\u2019s presidential nominee, while the emergence is being considered by NLD\u2019s supporters, as an answer to their long-awaited question of who will be the next able-body after Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is astonishing that why AFP chose the term \u2018driver\u2019 to illustrate U Htin Kyaw\u2019s closeness to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi though the capabilities of AFP\u2019s journalists are unquestionable since they have journalists like Jerome, an Oxford graduate with decent beard. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      U Htin Kyaw, a longtime confidant of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was made known on Thursday as one of the three candidates, to become Myanmar\u2019s next president. \u00a0   Albeit a low profile player, U Htin…<\/p>\n

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