Comments on: The Straits Times thinks only businessmen are Singaporeans

By: Fugazzi

Fugazzi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:43:45 +0000

Shitty times lacks credibility and they do not have journalists – they only have reporters regurgitating what is told to them or … and hence what can one expect but shit lar

By: Ganga

Ganga — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:58:49 +0000

That’s what’s more surprising – in spite of knowing that many readers will be able to tell fact from fiction, they blatantly choose to do it time and again. I think the problem is that the MSM is not accountable to the people in any way – the government has enough money to bankroll the papers and TV even if every single Singaporean stops reading and watching altogether.

I’m really not sure how we can stop this (I guess a change of management is one possibility), but I’m concerned that there are many who are hopelessly reliant on the system and cannot fathom a life without the matrix (i.e. PAP government). Well, I fashion myself to be like Morpheus – and try to keep pushing the truth to set the ‘slaves of the system’ free, hahaha.

As for the statistical manipulation – stats in Singapore (and in business) has today become a parlour trick to impress the uninformed. What is shocking in this case though is the brazen extent to which they have manipulated the whole survey – it’s like a card trick where the we can see the card in the other hand but the magician keeps insisting that the card has disappeared.

By: London perspective

London perspective — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:49:13 +0000

Interesting (and yet somewhat unsurprising) that the Straits Times should choose to misappropriate an industry trust barometer and apply some pro-governmental gloss over it. Don’t they know that Singaporeans can now instantaneously fact-check while reading hyperbolic fact-manipulation?
I just hope that healthy questioning of the validity of our print press becomes a habit for more people.

By: statistical student

statistical student — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:17:28 +0000

Do you think we can trust them to say that we trust them.
Quick summary
Sampling size : 200
Household income group : top quartile for their age.
Any statistical student here to enlighten.

By: Shame of Singapore

Shame of Singapore — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:33:53 +0000

Thank you, TOC, for providing us with yet another example of why Singaporean citizens should NOT trust PAP and its 154th mouthpiece.

This is a new hitting-below-the-belt low for MSM journalism in Singapore.

But the question is: do Singaporeans have what it takes to feel pain when somebody punches them below-the-belt like this?

VOTE PROTEST. Prove it.

By: sturmtruppen

sturmtruppen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:56:14 +0000

and it is also about trust, honesty, self-respect and respecting others truely…except ST seems to have lost all of these over the years with the general poplulation of singapore….

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/trust/

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/honesty/

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/respect/

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By: fievel

fievel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:16:05 +0000

Thank you for confirming my suspicions when I read that piece on the ST.

I think PAP is in serious trouble. It’s like quicksand…the more u wriggle the deeper u go

By: Tua Sian Hokkien Pian

Tua Sian Hokkien Pian — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:49:27 +0000

Good job TOC.
I hope that expose’ like this show them that we Singaporeans are not that easily hoodwinked.
ST is fast losing its credibility because of dishonestly/carelessly slanted articles like this.

By: mon

mon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:44:42 +0000

Really that good?

Then Ask the pigs to start the elections now.

By: vertigo

vertigo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:31:49 +0000

What a joke! My projects had much larger sample sizes back in my poly days~

By: theforgottongeneration

theforgottongeneration — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:12:23 +0000

I thought only 66% “voted’ PAP (or actual 34%). And PAP is government. So, did it ever occur to ST that the 84% focus group could be biased? I mean, talking to groups/people I associates with daily seem give an impression that the actual ground sentiment is quite different. Of course, I didn’t use any surveying methodology to form that impression.

200 people? Is that a sufficient survey size for such a subject? And done over the phone!!!?? Maybe they did 1000 calls and only 200 responded somewhat — I did surveys before — Singaporeans really not so free to give 25 minutes of their time speaking to someone asking questions over the phone. It is definitely doubted that they made 200 calls and 200 responded.

By: vertigo

vertigo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:56:08 +0000

Anyone of us here were included in the survey? btw sample size of 200 should be ‘peanuts’ to them, TRUST them to pat one another’s backs

By: JW

JW — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:25:07 +0000

My goodness another Straits Times propaganda

By: jerome au kian beng

jerome au kian beng — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:13:07 +0000

cny good time to network and reach out.
all hll breaks lose.

By: The Jackal

The Jackal — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:56:15 +0000

Fellow Singaporeans,

Let’s get al our friends and relatives boycott all publications by SPH, including the Straits Times, New Paper and Business Times and donate the money to those homeless families.

By: jerome au kian beng

jerome au kian beng — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:54:46 +0000

when so many have influxed then only i realise the Extent.
when they said welcome ft, i did not realise so many FT, PR, new citizens and property speculators or investors have come in.

By: sweeney 38

sweeney 38 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:33:26 +0000

Trust this PAP Government. You must be kidding!

Look at the “new arrivals” brought into our beloved country, by this regime,
whom they called “talents”.
They have messed up our lives and betrayed our trust.

Pui !!! They are defintely not worthy of our Trust and Votes!

By: nonsense

nonsense — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:42:39 +0000

ZZZZzzzzzzz….does anyone really think PAP cares or needs to beg? Wake UP! They are NOT afraid. They have many “legal” ways to win. So do I trust the PAP government?…..

YES! YES! YES!
I absolutely and unequivocally TRUST the PAP government;
In return, the vampire PAP government will absolutely and without remorse, THRUST its people through their hearts with a merciless lightning stake and drain them of their blood.

Get real ! Edelman probably wants in on doing business here thru some shady hookups. As for ST….yawn…if they dun suckup, how then to get their salaries and bonuses for these so called bogus journalists!

Yawn…way past my bedtime. Better lock my window & doors and put up GARLIC or the vampire will come tonight.
Oops..forgoten our modern vampiric government sucks blood through electronic means. !!! Yikes >:E

By: Strategist

Strategist — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:22 +0000

Good work! by researching into the orignal source of information and provide a more balanced view.

By: Chua Mui Looong

Chua Mui Looong — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:27:27 +0000

TOC can use this as case-in-point to educate the naive.