Majalah Time yang kontroversi, edisi October 2010

Inilah muka hadapan majalah Time edisi Oktober 2010 yang kontroversi.

Memaparkan imej seorang gadis yang sarat mengandung dalam keadaan bogel.

Cover majalah ini terpaksa disensor di kebanyakan negara termasuk negara Islam seperti Malaysia dan Indonesia.

Namun adakah ini yang dipanggil kreatif?

Controversial Time Magazine October 2010 cover

This is the magazine cover of TIME Magazine in its October 2010 edition.

It created controversy and was censored in many countries including Moslem countries like Malaysia and Indonesia.

Hmmm... isn't this creativity beyond imagination?

Malaysian TV removes Ramadan ads amid 'racism' complaint

Race and religions are sensitive issues in multi-racial Malaysia.

Therefore, whatever Malaysians do, especially in public and in media, they will be closely scrutinised.

Any mistakes will almost certainly draw controversies and public ire.

In the latest case, a Malaysian television station had axed commercials to mark the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan after viewers denounced them as being racist against the country's Chinese minority.

The advertisements, which began airing on Monday, 1st August 2011 at the start of Ramadan, depicted an ethnic Chinese girl, dressed in a tight and sleeveless dress, talking loudly and eating in public.

They ended with a message urging viewers to refrain from such behaviour, considered inappropriate during Ramadan.


This is the controversial commercials by 8TV. The message is good but the way it is presented is not well received by Malaysians. I wonder who is the director of this commercial and who is the actress in that commercial.

The private station that aired the commercials, 8TV, pulled them on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011, a mere 24 hours after being aired, after the TV station Facebook page was flooded with angry comments denouncing the advertisements as racist.

"Ok guys. We're pulling out the ads. Thank you very much for your concern," 8TV chief executive Ahmad Izham Omar said on a message on microblogging site Twitter late on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011.

About 60 percent of Malaysia's 28.3 million people are Muslim Malays, who live alongside large ethnic Chinese and Indian communities as well as the ethnic groups in Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia.

8TV is one of 4 TV stations owned by Media Prima, Malaysia's largest media group.



Last year in 2010, another TV station operating under Media Prima, TV3 was also criticized for airing a Hari Raya commercial deemed inappropriate for depicting Santa Claus like character and a flower symbolising Buddha.

The controversial commercial below. One more time the message is good but the ways it was presented was not well received by Malaysians :



The TV Station apology aired on 5th September 2010 on the above commercial :

Controversial breast cancer awareness campaign in Singapore

The controversial cartoon character


The Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF) is a non-profit charity organisation, established in October 1997. BCF’s mission is to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease

According to BCF, breast cancer is curable if detected early. BCF hopes that by raising awareness of breast cancer and encouraging women to screen themselves regularly, breast cancer will be detected earlier and the chances of surviving the disease will be greatly enhanced.

The mission is noble - but BCF's recent campaign to prevent breast cancer, creates controversy.

This is beacuase A CARTOON character used in that campaign shows the character squeezing a nipple and painted with breasts as its head.

Media reported that the campaign with the tagline “Are you obsessed with the right things?”, was launched by the Breast Cancer Foundation in order for women not to take their health for granted.

Besides the cartoon characters, it also featured the buttocks of a woman painted on bare breasts.

Foundation general manager Christine Ang said it was satisfied with the advertisements as these had clearly sent out the message to women.

The advertisments’ creative director, Thomas Yang, said its team found that many women were obsessed with their appearance, such as their hair, pimples or weight.

“So our team decided to use the naked female body as a canvas to capture public attention and focus on the right part of their body,” he added.