Opinion Is Raja Petra A Political Prostitute Or A Bona Fide Writer

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Some people are saying that Raja Petra coming up with videos like “Kalau tak mahu Anwar nak siapa?” is a sign that he has shifted his allegiance from being PN-centric to being PH-centric, but I doubt it.
TheRealNehruism, Newswav
I also have said in a few of my articles that Anwar is lucky that despite his disappointing and subpar performance as a PM, there is no one in the country who can challenge his reign, because as lousy as Anwar is, his competitors are worse.
I might have said it in my own way, but the view that I was expressing is basically the same as Raja Petra’s “Kalau bukan Anwar, siapa lagi ” view.
I am of course going out on a limb to say that I think Raja Petra most likely said “kalau tak mahu Anwar, nak siapa?” not as an endorsement of Anwar’s rule, but simply because he believes it to be true.
Now I have never met or talked to Raja Petra, although my articles do appear in his platform.
I am just claiming to know that Raja Petra is neither endorsing Anwar or Muhyiddin, under the “it takes a thief to know a thief” rule, which by extension is also saying that it will take a writer to know a writer. Being a writer myself, I don’t think Raja Petra is endorsing either PH or PN, simply because I recognise what he is doing, and I recognise what he is doing because that is what I am doing myself.
A writer is by definition, someone who writes whatever it is that we think is true, in a manner that we feel will get us a readership and possibly a paycheck.
Now many of you out there think that we write what we write because we are being paid to write it by someone, but the truth is, the only people that pay us are probably just you, dear readers.
I personally only get paid by Newswav – which pays me according to the number of people who read what I write. Raja Petra probably gets paid much more, because he owns a famous website and because he also does videos on platforms like YouTube.
While we tend to write on the subjects that the readers are interested in, because that is the subject that they are more likely to read, we don’t just write what the readers want to hear, because the readers are not what we are focusing on when we are trying to write.
When we write, our focus is on what is going on in our own heart and mind. Our heart and mind are shaped by our own experience, observations and reasoning ability. When we write, what we are doing is merely recording what our experience, observation and reasoning ability are telling us, by using our powers of expression, which, if you are a bona fide writer, is something that you have honed by mastering the craft of writing for years and decades.
There are of course some people who write to put Muhyiddin in power or attempt to get Anwar toppled, but these are not writers, and you would be wrong to categorize Raja Petra as belonging in the same category as them.
I truly don’t believe that Raja Petra writes to put Muhyiddin in power or to topple Anwar or vice versa. I think all that he is doing is observing what is happening in reality until he comes upon an interesting idea, at which point he will start composing the idea in as attractive a manner as possible, before presenting it to you, dear readers and listeners, in the hope that you will give us your attention.
Some people are saying that Raja Petra is a paid mercenary and a propagandist for hire, which I confess, is something that I also have believed in the past to be true, but the more I myself am becoming a writer and the more I ask myself why is it that I am writing all the things that I am writing, the less I am becoming convinced that Raja Petra is a pen for hire.
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