Dear Tengku Razaleigh
That paper you bought on Tun Razak’s instructions almost 40 years ago has turned its back on its parentage again. It doesn’t want to be The New Straits Times, it keeps wanting to be a new Straits Times. I wonder how you feel?
(It means nothing to me, it’s not my paper.)
Having done the Singapore Straits Times before, and made many little hops over to KL while trying to do the Star, the big cheese of the newspaper design racket Jose Mario Garcia may have got a little confused about which side of the Causeway he was at the past few months.
He’s been flogging the line that the NST must emphasize the “new” in its title.
Only trouble is: he’s 40 years out of date.
uppercaise 