Annuar Musa also alleged that some reporters were bent on tarnishing the image of Mara, an agency that had done so much in the past to assist the Malays and Bumiputeras in the country.
He accused some reporters of spinning news on Mara and added, “Some (reporters) also come with the intention solely of criticising Mara. This is not right.”
He made these comments in a speech he delivered during the presentation ceremony of the UniKL City Campus letter of sponsorship held at Jalan Sultan Ismail here today.
The new Umno information chief advised media practitioners critical of Mara to change their ways as they had portrayed politicians as though they were “pariahs” of society.
“Pity us, sometimes politicians like us are portrayed as pariahs.”
The Ketereh MP was responding to media reports claiming that Mara has acted harshly when it pulled its sponsorship of a Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) student.
“Someone grabbed a first-year UniKL student, asked the student for a drink and recorded everything (the student said).
“Just because of this one recording, everyone has forgotten that UniKL is the only university in the world where 80 per cent of its students are under Mara’s sponsorship.
“But because (of the recording) of one person (that) has gone viral, the other 75,000 (sponsorships) have been ignored,” he said, lamenting that the Federal Government was always at the mercy of critics because “the job of criticising is easy.”