News icon who was a mentor and tormentor

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Today marks the 100th birth anniversary of newsman A Samad Ismail who prided himself on knowing what made people tick.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/04/18/news-icon-who-was-a-mentor-and-tormentor/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #ASamadIsmail #NewsIcon #Mentor #GerakBudaya

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00:00 A. Samad Ismail was a quintessential journalist and hardworking newspaper editor who could

00:07 play the villain and the angel at will.

00:10 But he was more than just a newsman to those who worked closely with him at the New Straits

00:14 Times.

00:16 In his book, A. Samad Ismail, Journalism and Politics, former NST Group editor Li Siu-Yi

00:22 recounted how Samad had appointed himself as the honorary uncle of his entire staff.

00:28 Former NST columnist Adiba Amin also said in the same book that many people had benefited

00:33 from Samad's kindness, which earned him their undying loyalty.

00:37 Samad, who died in 2008, was a force to be reckoned with in the newsroom.

00:43 Known as Pa Samad, the news icon poured his heart and soul into mentoring young journalists,

00:49 instructing them in the ways of his mantra, "Explain, clarify, simplify."

00:54 He was also described as a fearless defender of journalism who was not afraid to take political

00:59 and even commercial risks.

01:02 He was detained three times under the Internal Security Act, twice by the British in colonial

01:07 Singapore and once in Malaysia.

01:09 However, this did nothing to shake his belief that a newspaper is meant to deliver news

01:15 and not to please highly placed people.

01:17 To mark his 100th birthday, a remembrance event will be held at Garak Budaya on April

01:22 21st to pay tribute to the man who inspired writers and politicians in Malaysia and Singapore.

01:29 (gentle music)

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