Please note that the “JBJ Facebook Group” tagline has been changed from “Singapore’s Largest Facebook Group” to “Singapore’s Largest Facebook Personality Group”.

TOC was informed of the difficulty in deriving a suitable tagline earlier. “Largest Political Group”, “Largest Group on a Singapore Politician” and “Largest National Group” were some of the unsuitable options.

In consideration of the feedback, the new tagline was a recent brainwave and the best tagline we could offer.

Thank you.

Admin Team
JBJ Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26481019410

How do you know they weren’t invited? Perhaps they declined? I know EMA and SP were invited but declined to send a representative.

Sylvia Lim appeared on Channel NewsAsia’s Insight programme about the liberalization of the new media some weeks back.

Let me clarify that I said BOTH opposition and civil society should speak out more on the price hikes. I think both have a role to play in civil and political discourse and debate.

Civil society is generally seen as being “non-partisan” compared to the opposition, which will always be accused by the ruling party of simply “playing politics” rather than being genuinely concerned about Singaporeans. (Whether this is true or not is a separate matter altogether.)

Opposition, if they have sufficient numbers, has the power to influence or even change (or at least block) legislation. For example, if the opposition had more than one-third of seats in Parliament, Constitutional amendments like the introduction of GRCs would have never passed. And we have learned from our esteemed PM that 10 opposition MPs is all it takes to make his life miserable.

Just because the MSM is biased, doesn’t mean The Online Citizen must also be biased. Why must you be 144th next to the 145th?”

“love TOC, but for all the critique TOC does on the mainstream media, such a manipulative and downright ludicrous headline should have never been published.”

Exactly.

I’ve always been worried that the alternative media community ends up being similar to what they are trying to change in the first place.

caught BlogTV just now . Think got repeat telecast at around 11pm.
I feel good after listening to FD and his co-host and that CEO who says is not from Pay And Pa… They make me feel good….

Gerald of TOC also appeared. Different TOC writers have been invited by this MSM program to appear on BlogTV. I wonder why LTK or Sylvia Lim not invited?

In case none of you have watched the program, let me share with u what happened: Gerald lamented that Opposition has not been as proactive in voicing up concerns for the people on issues like Hikes.

Personally, I also wonder where have all the Opposition members been doing .

what minority want? people to speak up for them? If so, what if there are non-
political activists who can speak up for them on social issues?
will activists providing voice for the people reduce the need for opposition and
will they help release some steam of the people such that less swing towards the opposition? Will opposition’s role and importance be reduced in anyway by the support gained by activists?

Allow me to caution the opposition – your days may be numbered 1 2 3 …. if u continue not to get the kind of TV exposure others are getting….

Support Singapore Youth Olympics Games 2010 Bid – 5408 members

Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010 – 2574 members

Yes, there’s a “Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games” page with 218 fans. But your selective use of figures is bias and misrepresentation.

Just because the MSM is biased, doesn’t mean The Online Citizen must also be biased. Why must you be 144th next to the 145th?

Really, these numbers only go to show how much pent-up desire there is for political and civic engagement in Singapore. We’re a bit like China in a sense; clamoring and showing our support for political openness via online blogs and sites like Facebook;but not daring to do so in the open.

Can’t be blamed, given the climate of fear in Singapore that makes for a resigned political apathy.