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16-09-2013, 11:30 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Let me be very clear, I’m not saying anything derogatory about Ng. But I’m saying that our papers, based on the evidence of the votes cast, did not get their facts “right” about Ng being a favourite alongside Bach. Were they beating the DRUMS rather than reporting the “right” facts?
This leads me to a most serious issue.
Well, if we can’t even rely on the media to get the facts “right” on a simple sports story involving a S’porean, how can we trust the media when it reports on news that touches on the govt: remember the local media prides itself on being “constructive” and “nation-building”, and I have yet to hear of a senior editor being less than 150% pro-govt. Example, the media only waited for the govt’s response to Dinesh family’s legal suit before reporting the case. TOC and Bertha Henson (aforesaid keyboard general) had, to their credit, already reported the details of the family’s suit days earlier.
- http://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/09/...n-ngs-ioc-bid/ (http://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/why-it-matters-that-st-today-got-the-facts-wrong-on-ngs-ioc-bid/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?163306-Why-it-matters-that-ST-amp-Today-got-the-facts-wrong-on-Ng’s-IOC-bid&goto=newpost).
Let me be very clear, I’m not saying anything derogatory about Ng. But I’m saying that our papers, based on the evidence of the votes cast, did not get their facts “right” about Ng being a favourite alongside Bach. Were they beating the DRUMS rather than reporting the “right” facts?
This leads me to a most serious issue.
Well, if we can’t even rely on the media to get the facts “right” on a simple sports story involving a S’porean, how can we trust the media when it reports on news that touches on the govt: remember the local media prides itself on being “constructive” and “nation-building”, and I have yet to hear of a senior editor being less than 150% pro-govt. Example, the media only waited for the govt’s response to Dinesh family’s legal suit before reporting the case. TOC and Bertha Henson (aforesaid keyboard general) had, to their credit, already reported the details of the family’s suit days earlier.
- http://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/09/...n-ngs-ioc-bid/ (http://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/why-it-matters-that-st-today-got-the-facts-wrong-on-ngs-ioc-bid/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?163306-Why-it-matters-that-ST-amp-Today-got-the-facts-wrong-on-Ng’s-IOC-bid&goto=newpost).