No response from The Star
It’s been 4 months now since the email informing The Star newspaper about our request to bring back Quah Seng Sun’s chess column back. Looks like it has fallen on deaf ears. I’ve taken all the emails from The Star contact us page and email them a copy of the petition.
We’ve collected exactly 100 signatures in the online petition.
Perhaps the number is not enough. 
Personally I’m disappointed and I’ve stopped buying my regular Tuesday and Thursday copy of The Star (In Tech section) as a personal protest.
Also I’ve taken the AllMalaysian banner I used to put on my sidebar after I’ve found out that it is also affiliated to The Star. It seems that The Star would leverage the power of Malaysian blogs by promotion of local events. I thought that here’s a media company that “gets it”.
Now it’s clear that they just want to get into the space so as not to get left out.
If they don’t listen to their own readers or at least respond, then they have lost the support of this blogger.
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Comments
I think that’s a forlorn wish as things go. In order to have a chess column, the editor must be convinced there’s a substantial chess following with troublefree events reporting as well. The editor is not a chess know-all and probably doesn’t play chess at all. Do you think he will stick out his neck and give valuable paper space for chess? The local organisers of chess events must ensure that events are properly and consistently FED to the paper. Alternatively you have to have a high profile chess player with high achievements to boost public interest interest.
It’s not hard to notice that the major dailies don’t have a chess column. It’s not so in more advanced countries. The Herald Tribune has one; The Wall Street Journal even went as far as securing Garry Kasparov as a contributor.
I don’t know if there’s a conspiracy to limit the public’s exposure to chess but I recall having read from something from Emanuel Lasker, “There is a tendency to leave the bulk of the population stupid.”
From the many lousy column we can find in our newspapers, we can certainly conclude that they find them more interesting than chess.