COMMENT | One for the media

COMMENT | The last few months have been some of the most demanding for the media. From mass retrenchments of those working in print media, to camping outside the Istana Negara as one political drama after another unfolds, to sitting in socially distanced lines at press conferences - I can only imagine the state of chaos we would fall into without the media.

Yet, the ability of the media to adapt to bring us the news is not something new.

I remember being with a radio station that, I am sure with other media platforms as well, worked around the clock to crunch analysis after analysis during the annual budget season.

I remember as my colleagues in print media geared up with all their plastic-covered equipment and just a single backpack for themselves to cover areas struck by disasters during monsoons. "Kita basah takpe, equipment tak boleh kena air" (We can get wet but not our equipment) - I remember them saying.

I don’t know if people realise this or not, but some members of the media also needed to don...