Truth/Propaganda?
Main Stories, Politics, Truth/Propaganda? - Friday, February 5, 2010 14:34 - 10 Comments
ST’s Rachel Chang accuses Singapore government of being polarised
From Gangasudhan’s blog…
A friend forwarded me the text of an opinion piece that I hear from another friend appears on Page 2 of today’s paper – since I no longer subscribe to the paper, I have no idea.
The reporter, Rachel Chang, was apparently tasked to trawl online through forums and blogs that speak ill of the Singapore government to search for news fodder. Well, I must say that the reporter seems to appreciate the dire nature of the Singapore political landscape.
In her article, off the bat she refers to the Singapore government as the proverbial bogeyman and goes on to compliment how “people who oppose the Government have become scary in their own right” – justification that the balancing power of the internet has been able to stand up to this bogeyman of sorts.
Pointing to the recent incident where the boastful Mr Sear Hock Rong, chairman of the Eunos Community Centre’s Youth Executive Committee (YEC), had indicated on his website that his clients included Residents’ Committees (RCs) in Eunos, she went a step further to actually confirm these very allegations that he had in fact used “his grassroots connections to drum up business for his events management company” – the Eunos constituency office revealed to her that he had indeed taken on “jobs as master of ceremonies at grassroots events”.
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