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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>31819.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Another glaring mistake by ST: M1 did not ink any deal with Al-Jazeera
April 15th, 2010 |
Author: Site Admin
Written by Our Correspondent
Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew once praised the Singapore media as a “trustworthy” source of news. It appears that he may need to re-assess his judgement soon following a series of glaring mistakes made by the Straits Times which is seriously becoming a source of “misinformation” rather than factual news.
Coming right after a series of juvenile errors such as mistaking the capital of Hungary for Romania’s and misquoting Foreign Minister George Yeo last week, the Straits Times now come up with something out of thin air to mislead and deceive Singaporeans.
SingTel’s decision to drop Al-Jazeera TV channel from its MIO TV sparked a controversy lately with many Singaporeans lampooning the PAP government of exerting pressure on SingTel to do so following the latest video by Al-Jazeera on homeless Singaporeans which greatly embarrassed the PAP.
Mr Lui was forced to issue a clarification that Al-Jazeera was dropped due to “commercial” reasons without substantiating his claims.
In its eagerness to limit the damage from the fallout, the Straits Times claimed that M1 had inked a deal with Al-Jazeera to give the public the impression that the channel was not banned from Singapore by the PAP:
[Source: Straits Timess, 14 April 2010]
It is not known where the ST journalist Tan Wei Zhen got the information from.
M1 subsequently clarified in a statement a day later that contrary to what was reported in the Straits Times, it had never inked any deal with Al-Jazeera:
[Source: My Paper, 15 April 2010]
Did the journalist check with M1 before writing the article? Shouldn’t the facts be double-checked first before publication? Can we still trust what is reported in the Straits Times?
At the end of the day, Al-Jazeera will not be shown on either SingTel or M1 channels after all which is hardly surprising since its coverage of Singapore current affairs are rather critical of the government at times.
It is a shame that in today’s internet age, the PAP still see the need of censoring negative news about its performance which is not reflective of a steady, assured and confident government demanding to be paid the highest salaries in the world.
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Written by Our Correspondent
Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew once praised the Singapore media as a “trustworthy” source of news. It appears that he may need to re-assess his judgement soon following a series of glaring mistakes made by the Straits Times which is seriously becoming a source of “misinformation” rather than factual news.
Coming right after a series of juvenile errors such as mistaking the capital of Hungary for Romania’s and misquoting Foreign Minister George Yeo last week, the Straits Times now come up with something out of thin air to mislead and deceive Singaporeans.
SingTel’s decision to drop Al-Jazeera TV channel from its MIO TV sparked a controversy lately with many Singaporeans lampooning the PAP government of exerting pressure on SingTel to do so following the latest video by Al-Jazeera on homeless Singaporeans which greatly embarrassed the PAP.
Mr Lui was forced to issue a clarification that Al-Jazeera was dropped due to “commercial” reasons without substantiating his claims.
In its eagerness to limit the damage from the fallout, the Straits Times claimed that M1 had inked a deal with Al-Jazeera to give the public the impression that the channel was not banned from Singapore by the PAP:
[Source: Straits Timess, 14 April 2010]
It is not known where the ST journalist Tan Wei Zhen got the information from.
M1 subsequently clarified in a statement a day later that contrary to what was reported in the Straits Times, it had never inked any deal with Al-Jazeera:
[Source: My Paper, 15 April 2010]
Did the journalist check with M1 before writing the article? Shouldn’t the facts be double-checked first before publication? Can we still trust what is reported in the Straits Times?
At the end of the day, Al-Jazeera will not be shown on either SingTel or M1 channels after all which is hardly surprising since its coverage of Singapore current affairs are rather critical of the government at times.
It is a shame that in today’s internet age, the PAP still see the need of censoring negative news about its performance which is not reflective of a steady, assured and confident government demanding to be paid the highest salaries in the world.
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