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10-06-2022, 10:00 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
I get super worked up when I hear people say "opposition candidates are not good". I also feel bad because as a journalist on the Straits Times political desk, I was part of the media machinery that helped perpetuate this image.
There always have been really good opposition candidates who dared to put themselves up for election - you just never heard about them because we were not allowed to report on good opposition candidates or highlight anything good about them. But news of silly minor...
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Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/former-st-political-desk-journalist-we-were-not-allowed-to-report-on-good-opposition-candidates-or-highlight-anything-good-about-them.322972/).
I get super worked up when I hear people say "opposition candidates are not good". I also feel bad because as a journalist on the Straits Times political desk, I was part of the media machinery that helped perpetuate this image.
There always have been really good opposition candidates who dared to put themselves up for election - you just never heard about them because we were not allowed to report on good opposition candidates or highlight anything good about them. But news of silly minor...
Read more (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/former-st-political-desk-journalist-we-were-not-allowed-to-report-on-good-opposition-candidates-or-highlight-anything-good-about-them.322972/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/former-st-political-desk-journalist-we-were-not-allowed-to-report-on-good-opposition-candidates-or-highlight-anything-good-about-them.322972/).