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[TD="class: msgtxt"] She fucking lied to the public and now when the truth comes to light she tried to siam responsibility?
[h=1]FT JOURNALIST FAKE STORY EXPOSED, NOW PUSHES BLAME TO TAXI DRIVER[/h] By Maria Almenoar StraitsTimes Transport Correspondent
As the journalist who wrote the story about the cabby who earned $7,000, I have been flamed online and my byline photo has been spread by the Internet crowd, who did not believe a word of it.
I also received several unhappy e-mail messages and phone calls, especially from cabbies demanding why The Sunday Times had run such a story.
It had started as a report about younger taxi drivers, after I heard from the National Taxi Association that younger Singaporeans were choosing to be taxi drivers.
I wanted to know who these new drivers were and why they wanted to be cabbies. What we know from the Land Transport Authority is that the average age of Singapore's more than 90,000 taxi vocational licence holders is 50.
Cabby backtracks on $7,000-a-month earnings claim
Despite earlier saying a few times he made $7k a month, he now says it was just for May.
Mr Muhammad no longer drives a Premier taxi, saying that other cabbies were unhappy after he was featured in The Sunday Times last week. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
ALSO by Maria Almenoar Transport Correspondent
Taxi driver Muhammad Hasnor Hashim has changed his account of life as a taxi driver a week after making the news for claiming to earn $7,000 a month.
The 32-year-old had told two journalists of The Sunday Times that he earned that sum by working hard and working smart driving a Premier taxi. On Saturday, he said he made $7,000 only once, in May this year, and that he usually earns $4,000 to $5,000 a month.
He is also no longer driving a Premier taxi. He said on Saturday that he had left the company after three months because other cabbies there were unhappy with him. "They would see me in the lift and make comments at me," he added.
Premier Taxis confirmed that he is no longer one of its drivers, but declined to confirm if he left on his own or if his contract had been terminated. Its spokesman would only say that the reasons for his departure were confidential. Mr Muhammad said he is now driving for another cab operator.
BACKGROUND STORY:
What Mr Muhammad told The Sunday Times at his first interview where both a reporter and a photojournalist were present
"My taxi is a money machine."
What Mr Muhammad told the photojournalist during an interview for The Straits Times' Through the Lens video series, when asked if it was true that taxi drivers cannot earn a lot of money
"I don't agree. If I tell you I earn $7,000, some of the taxi drivers outside also get angry, 'Wah lau, this guy, very cocky. Sure or not, $7,000?' But touch their heart, ask themselves, they know."
What Mr Muhammad said yesterday, when asked why he gave the figure of $7,000 in the original interview
"Maybe I thought I was being asked how much a taxi driver can earn."
The Full report published today.
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