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Atrocious error by Straits Times: It is Tanigaki, not Hatoyama who visited the Yasukuni Shrine
October 21, 2009 by admin
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From our Correspondent
The Straits Times has outdone itself again with another atrocious error which will put even amateur bloggers to shame!
Under its ¡§Breaking News¡¨ section on 20 October 2009, it published an article with a misleading headline: ¡§Hatoyoma visits war shrine¡¨:
It turned out that it was LDP opposition leader Tanigaki who visited the shrine.
The offending article had been removed (as usual) to hide the mistake without any clarifications or apologies.
Is the Straits Times trying to spark a diplomatic row between China and Japan?
What if the Chinese were to read the Straits Times article and protest against the Japanese government?
Not too long ago, Singapore¡¦s Minister for Communications and Arts Rear-Admiral Lui Tuck Yew praised the Singapore media for being a ¡§trustworthy¡¨ source of information.
Is this the kind of standard we expect from a major English national daily?
Either SPH is employing non-journalists to maintain the online edition of Straits Times or its journalists are napping on the job!
Three weeks ago, the Straits Times caused a furore by naming a photo of dethrone Miss Singapore World Ris Low as ¡§sg-stupid.jpg¡¨.
The photo mysteriously disappeared after the mistake was pointed out on our site.
The Straits Times should consider itself lucky that its atrocious mistake was not spotted by the Japanese government or it would be sued for defamation.
Then again, the Japanese leaders are hardly as litigatious as ours and the culprit will probably be let off the hook even without a formal apology.
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Atrocious error by Straits Times: It is Tanigaki, not Hatoyama who visited the Yasukuni Shrine
October 21, 2009 by admin
Filed under Snippets
Leave a comment
From our Correspondent
The Straits Times has outdone itself again with another atrocious error which will put even amateur bloggers to shame!
Under its ¡§Breaking News¡¨ section on 20 October 2009, it published an article with a misleading headline: ¡§Hatoyoma visits war shrine¡¨:
It turned out that it was LDP opposition leader Tanigaki who visited the shrine.
The offending article had been removed (as usual) to hide the mistake without any clarifications or apologies.
Is the Straits Times trying to spark a diplomatic row between China and Japan?
What if the Chinese were to read the Straits Times article and protest against the Japanese government?
Not too long ago, Singapore¡¦s Minister for Communications and Arts Rear-Admiral Lui Tuck Yew praised the Singapore media for being a ¡§trustworthy¡¨ source of information.
Is this the kind of standard we expect from a major English national daily?
Either SPH is employing non-journalists to maintain the online edition of Straits Times or its journalists are napping on the job!
Three weeks ago, the Straits Times caused a furore by naming a photo of dethrone Miss Singapore World Ris Low as ¡§sg-stupid.jpg¡¨.
The photo mysteriously disappeared after the mistake was pointed out on our site.
The Straits Times should consider itself lucky that its atrocious mistake was not spotted by the Japanese government or it would be sued for defamation.
Then again, the Japanese leaders are hardly as litigatious as ours and the culprit will probably be let off the hook even without a formal apology.
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