This incident also exposed how incompetent Singapore Straits Times' reporters were without questioning something that is obviously flawed. I didn't read the news about this $7k cabby, heard ST gave him quite "extensive" coverage?
ST isn't incompetent, they knew it was fake. They are run with a direction from the top with a agenda to set a certain environment for the masses to behave in a way which the MIW would want.
The whole saga and many others are steered in such a way that it hides the true issues that occur in the daily lives of common folks.
In a way ,ST method of operation hides the INCOMPETENCE of their Master, the MIWs so with this continued and persistent way of reporting, it conditions the way the masses would think and behave.
That's where common folks , who in true form if told the truths, would NOT VOTE for the PAP but would in reality vote for them.