ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 provides a detailed discussion of why Malaysia’s GE2008 became the ‘watershed moment’, a negative reaction between the BN government and citizens. It generated much anger and unhappiness among Malaysians and led to the BN government suffering unexpected losses. It indentifies the causes that resulted in distrust of the BN government and the mainstream media under former PM Abdullah. The notions of informationalism and the information society are used to explore changes in the media landscape. This chapter also includes a discussion of the BN and INP as sites of contested power of enabling the formation of democratic practices in readers.
