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Posts tagged with "straits times"
Press Muse – Grafting numbers
Dec. 11 | Spiegel - Channel NewsAsia on Friday (10 December) ran a story on its website about Transparency International’s 2010 Global Corruption Barometer. Refreshingly, this time the story didn’t bear all good tidings, as the headline suggests: Singapore...
Press Muse – Friends with benefits
Dec. 3 | Spiegel - Don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed many an itchy back recently. It’s an endemic and mostly mild condition, but occasionally it flares up and a kindred spirit has to swoop in to offer a comforting scratch. Singapore’s...
Press Muse – K Shanmugam, literary gymnast
Nov. 11 | Spiegel - So newly minted Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam (who is concurrently Law Minister) has been hitting the lecture circuit again, sharing with the world finer intricacies of running Singapore Inc. You may recall his earlier venture in October...
Press Muse – The Numbers Tell No Story
Nov. 3 | Spiegel - UPDATE – 3 November, 2040hrs Wednesday’s (3 November) print edition of the Straits Times’ story provides some basic details on the survey that was missing from the online version published Tuesday evening. In a infobox placed...
Press Muse – Servility to higher powers
Sep. 10 | Spiegel - The Christian Post Singapore published on its website Tuesday (7 September) an intriguing article titled “NCCS Workshop Prepares Churches to Engage Press“. It covered an event organised by the National Council of Churches of Singapore...
Press Muse – Ivory tower irony in last-gasp YOG pitch
Jul. 27 | Spiegel - The Straits Times yesterday (26 July) ran a curious little piece on its review pages. Tucked into a bottom left, quarter-page slot, an NUS academic asked in an op-ed, with discomfiting earnestness: “The YOG is coming. Are you excited...
A local hero deserving of a National Day award
Jun. 13 | The following article is inspired by Mr Anand A. Vathiyar’s letter to the Straits Times on 8 June 2010 (please see below). Kirsten Han – Singapore’s main English language newspaper has been praised as being a “local hero”. The proclamation,...
Press Muse – Calling STOMP’s bluff
Apr. 4 | By Spiegel Once upon a time, when laypersons chance upon information they deem of relevance to a wider audience, they’d be inclined to pay deference to the professionals – they couldn’t disseminate the information themselves anyway. So they...
Press Muse – Singaporeans dreaming
Mar. 13 | By Spiegel Writer and historian James Truslow Adams once imagined a meritocratic wonderland. A society defined by the noble aspiration he called the American Dream. Drawing from the United States Declaration of Independence and its recognition of “inalienable...
Straits Times’ outrageous opinion piece on homelessness
Mar. 10 | By Callan Tham The Straits Times, true to its form of operating as a government mouthpiece, publishes this gem of an opinion piece disguised as ‘Prime News’ entitled Life’s a beach but it’s no holiday (complete with the accompanying...
Press Muse – Love thyself, ignore thy neighbour
Mar. 2 | By Spiegel “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals,” said ‘leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat’ (so claims Wikipedia) Benjamin...
What the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer really says
Feb. 8 | By Gangasudhan Last week, TOC critiqued the Straits Times’ misrepresentation of the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer report, and soon after managed to get in touch with some Edelman representatives. The localised press release for Singapore was duly furnished...
The Straits Times thinks only businessmen are Singaporeans
Feb. 6 | By Gangasudhan and Ravi Philemon In a show of scant regard for the intellect of Singaporeans, the Straits Times splashed the authoritative headline “Highest trust level in government” for an article that starts of with “people in Singapore trust...
ST’s Rachel Chang accuses Singapore government of being polarised
Feb. 5 | 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,...
Press Muse: Speaking “truth” for power
Dec. 28 | Invitation: The Online Citizen & Talk Politics’ Year In Review special forum will take place on Thursday evening, 29 December 2009, at the Post Museum. The forum will start at 7pm and end at about 10.30pm. Please do come and join us. A Man in...
Press Muse: Age of extremes
Nov. 30 | Latest: The S’pore Prison Service, in a letter to Yong Vui Kong’s brother, says the death sentence passed on Yong Vui Kong will be carried out on 4 December 2009. TOC understands Vui Kong’s lawyer is making a last-ditch attempt to have...
S’pore press freedom ranked 133rd – MP says this shows “our press remains credible” !
Oct. 21 | Mr Zaqy Mohamad, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Information, Communications and the Arts, said the improved ranking “underlines that our press remains credible especially in the face of challenges like the new media”. Today
Foolish talk of regulating the Internet (again)
Oct. 13 | Support this: Two students from NUS have started a petition to the Manpower Minister after being moved by the plight of foreign workers. Support the petition here: http://yeswecare-petition.blogspot.com/ Gangasudhan The Straits Times carried a report...
Straits Times’ perplexing definition of ‘netizens’
Sep. 25 | Gangasudhan The Straits Times (ST) seems to think netizens are only those who comment on the ST’s discussion boards. Following up on the now-infamous Ris Low ‘scandal’, the Straits Times ran a story today with the headline Netizens slam Ris...
“Young bloggers” irks Ms Chua
Aug. 22 | IT IRKS me that young people blog negatively about the Singapore Government. They live in an era where there is peace and harmony, they have a roof over their heads, plenty to eat and so much to enjoy. There is a need to realise that all these good things...
Tharman’s “public interest” remark removed by Straits Times
Aug. 20 | “Volkswagen and The Straits Times are brands with a successful history and a reputation of trust.” – Mr Leon Gumpert, general manager, Sales Singapore, at Volkswagen Group Singapore. (its Times, 15 August 2009) “So they have to adapt but they...
Straits Times a brand with a “reputation of trust”?
Aug. 15 | Volkswagen and The Straits Times are brands with a successful history and a reputation of trust. Mr Leon Gumpert, general manager, Volkswagen Group Singapore.
Aware coverage – Straits Times defends itself
May. 30 | If Mr Sin is accusing The Straits Times of being in favour of some religions against others – a very serious accusation against a newspaper with 1.4million readers of every religious shade – he should substantiate his complaint. The personal...
Are newspapers heading the way of the dodo?
May. 11 | Darren Boon Monetary losses due to economic downturn and fall in advertising revenue – is this the death knell of the broadsheet? Newspapers are seeing red in the U.S. The Washington Post Company newspaper division chalked up an operating loss of...
Blog Feature: Straits Times changes headlines 4 times in one day
Apr. 15 | From Jeff Yen’s blog: There are possibly three reasons why I continue to pay money to read the Straits Times online. The first reason is that I want to know what others are reading daily, the second is I want to know what I’m supposed to know,...
SM Goh’s misdirected attack on the press
Mar. 27 | Choo Zheng Xi / Editor-in-Chief In an article in Monday’s Straits Times entitled, “Report Card on Class of 2006”, journalist Li Xueying previewed the newest batch of PAP MPs. One particular quote regarding the grassroots work of Member of Parliament...
Domestic violence, whether mild or severe, is not acceptable
Mar. 17 | Rachel Chung When Joanne Lee wrote her article, “Was Rihanna semi responsible“, it sparked outrage. After all, this was a highly educated journalist who was not only simplistic in her gauche attempt at psychoanalysis, it was also social irresponsibility...
A response to MM Lee’s private secretary on dialects
Mar. 7 | Deng Chao Recognition of our heritage and respect for diversity are not ignorance I write in response to the Straits Times Forum Letter “Foolish to advocate the learning of dialects”, dated 7 March 2009, by Chee Hong Tat, Principal Private Secretary...
Blog Feature: The newspaper’s the problem, not the blogs
Feb. 23 | Today’s Blog Feature is from the blog Looking For Words, titled “The newspaper’s the problem, not the blogs”. Here’s an excerpt: I just had a look at a Straits Times weekend article after reading about it now on The Online Citizen(Moderating...
Disgrace – The life and times of Chua Lee Hoong*
Jan. 5 | KJ To pose Chua Lee Hoong’s question back to herself: The problem with the Straits Times is reliability: To what extent can you trust what you read in print? One of the characteristics of the esteemed novelist J.M. Coetzee’s prose style...
Tan Kin Lian replies to ST forum page letter
Nov. 19 | The following is Mr Tan Kin Lian’s reply to the letter by Mr Chua Sheng Yang in the Straits Times forum page. Mr Tan has also sent his reply to the Straits Times. 18 November 2008 The Editor Forum Page Straits Times I refer to the letter entitled “Questions...
