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“Vote PAP out” Facebook exceeds 5,000 in membership
May 7th, 2010 |
Author: Your Correspondent
The anti-PAP Facebook started by vocal PAP critic Alex Tan has exceeded 5,000 in membership in less than half a year, a sign of the increasing unpopularity of the ruling party especially among young Singaporeans.
The majority of its members are Singaporeans between the ages of 20 – 40 whose votes are desperately courted by the PAP.
Unlike their parents, the post-1965 generation owe no allegiance to the PAP and are more inclined to cast a protest vote against it in the face of rising public unhappiness over issues such as immigration and HDB flat prices.
In contrast, the Young PAP Facebook and the REACH Forum Facebook have only over 3,200 and 1,950 members respectively despite massive publicity by the state media.
Still, the reach of the New Media remains limited compared to the mainstream media which is read by millions of Singaporeans.
As such, though the PAP is losing the war in cyberspace, it is able to count on the state media to continue churning out propaganda to serve its own partisan interests.
All the media companies in Singapore are controlled by the PAP directly or indirectly in one way or another. The Chairman of SPH is a former PAP minister while MediaCorp is owned partly by Temasek Holdings, led by the Prime Minister’s wife Ho Ching.
Even the two largest telcos SingTel and Starhub are government-linked companies.
It is hardly a surprise that international media watchdog Reporters without Borders rank the Singapore media 133th in terms of press freedom worldwide last year.
As expected, the existence of the “Vote PAP out” Facebook was never mentioned by the state media out of fear of embarrassing its political master.
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“Vote PAP out” Facebook exceeds 5,000 in membership
The anti-PAP Facebook started by vocal PAP critic Alex Tan has exceeded 5,000 in membership in less than half a year, a sign of the increasing unpopularity of the ruling party especially among young Singaporeans.
The majority of its members are Singaporeans between the ages of 20 – 40 whose votes are desperately courted by the PAP.
Unlike their parents, the post-1965 generation owe no allegiance to the PAP and are more inclined to cast a protest vote against it in the face of rising public unhappiness over issues such as immigration and HDB flat prices.
In contrast, the Young PAP Facebook and the REACH Forum Facebook have only over 3,200 and 1,950 members respectively despite massive publicity by the state media.
Still, the reach of the New Media remains limited compared to the mainstream media which is read by millions of Singaporeans.
As such, though the PAP is losing the war in cyberspace, it is able to count on the state media to continue churning out propaganda to serve its own partisan interests.
All the media companies in Singapore are controlled by the PAP directly or indirectly in one way or another. The Chairman of SPH is a former PAP minister while MediaCorp is owned partly by Temasek Holdings, led by the Prime Minister’s wife Ho Ching.
Even the two largest telcos SingTel and Starhub are government-linked companies.
It is hardly a surprise that international media watchdog Reporters without Borders rank the Singapore media 133th in terms of press freedom worldwide last year.
As expected, the existence of the “Vote PAP out” Facebook was never mentioned by the state media out of fear of embarrassing its political master.
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