(Formerly known as NOT the Straits Times in Chong Kee's time, I renamed it to include all the new newspapers.)
Did the late Nigerian dictator stash money in Singapore?
Was the reporting on Homosexuality and the S21 process fair?
Slanting a story by choice of word: Cult vs Sect
A more in-depth look at our justice system through the case of Madam Jainab
A comparison of how two different media reports the story of Hong Kong Legislator Marin Lee Speaking at a Forum on Democracy in Singapore. One paper is the Asian Wall Street Journal, the other is the Straits Times.
So What Can We Do?
It is useless sitting around local coffeeshops, speculating amongst ourselves over and beyond the points I have just raised. We should instead make ourselves relevant to changes we would like to see.
Hence, maybe it is time to put our local papers under closer scrutiny.
*IF* anyone thinks that there is a case which our local papers has to answer for, based on the information presented, we suggest that you write in ( via email/fax/snail mail) personally to the papers concerned asking if they could investigate and clarify this matter to their readers, to whom they should be also accountable. Please note that your letter will be taken more seriously if you maintain a polite tone. If you would like your case heard on this website, please remember to cc your correspondence to the webmaster when SInterCom is revived again..
In the "About Us" page of the ST web edition, it is stated there that "The Straits Times strives to be an authoritative provider of news and views".The notion of Fairness and Accuracy would come under this vision as well -- they are but two basic qualities any self-respecting media organization would natuarally uphold. "If liberty means anything at all," George Orwell wrote, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." Relevant news kept in the dark inhibits the notion of a civil society because what we do not know, we cannot discuss.
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