It is common knowledge that it takes political connections to get radio/tv licenses in Malaysia. After that only the station has the chance to face commercial issues. Now WaFM is said to close `completely' on commercial factors -how could it be said to fail `completely' under commercial circumstances ? Had others un-connected stations the chance to run a similar station then only it can be said convinsingly that the radio station failed `completely' on commercial circumstances. Under current circumstances it can be said that a politically connected station failed. That does not mean given a chance, a similarly formated, non-politically connected one will similarly fail ! Politics never evaporates into thin air when a politically connected station fail...as in other cases of crony enterprises. Those who fail to see politics in the failure need to look again before mistakenly condemn the call for the government's `interference'-which actually is an `interference' to remove the initial cronyistic `interference' ! So to imply that the listeners group of WaFM ask for more cronism is a strange twist of logic !

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