Singtel Apologizes for m&d-slinging! Opposition IB To Apologize To PAP Too?

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE: Singtel has apologised following a controversy surrounding marketing agency Gushcloud, which allegedly issued a brief to its social media influencers to write poor reviews about rival telcos.

In a statement issued to the media on Tuesday (Mar 17), Singtel's vice-president of Consumer Marketing Johan Buse, said investigations revealed that staff who worked with Gushcloud on the marketing campaign in June last year "did not adhere to Singtel's marketing standards."

He added that the campaign in question was a "niche" one, "targeted at a narrow customer segment".

"As an organisation, we maintain high marketing standards and do not condone negative campaigns or publicity against any individuals or organisations," Mr Buse said. "We apologise for this isolated incident."

He added that Singtel will emphasise its marketing standards to both staff members and agencies, as well as remind them of the importance of adhering to industry guidelines, including the Singapore Code of Advertising Practice.

Singtel had earlier said it did not issue the brief that asked Gushcloud's influencers to write negative posts about the other two telcos’ services or network connections. The brief, written by a Gushcloud employee, was widely circulated after it was posted online by local blogger Xiaxue, amid a long-running feud with the company.

Singtel's rivals M1 and StarHub have said they will ask the Infocomm Development Authority to look into the matter.

- CNA/dl

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singtel-apologises-for/1722732.html?cid=fbsg

 

[winnipegjets]

PAP owes sinkees not only apologies but hundreds of billions. When PAP pays up, then we can talk.

By the way, there is NO opposition IB. Opposition doesn't have the hundreds of millions the PAP has - how come PAP doesn't publish its financials.

People who critic the PAP are individuals who have decided that they cannot afford to be screwed by the PAP any longer.

It is traitors like you that we hate. How could you support a party that put foreigners first and is willing to sacrifice your family to the foreigners. You not only betray the country but also your family.

 

[Sinkie]

SINGAPORE: Singtel has apologised following a controversy surrounding marketing agency Gushcloud, which allegedly issued a brief to its social media influencers to write poor reviews about rival telcos.

In a statement issued to the media on Tuesday (Mar 17), Singtel's vice-president of Consumer Marketing Johan Buse, said investigations revealed that staff who worked with Gushcloud on the marketing campaign in June last year "did not adhere to Singtel's marketing standards."

He added that the campaign in question was a "niche" one, "targeted at a narrow customer segment".

"As an organisation, we maintain high marketing standards and do not condone negative campaigns or publicity against any individuals or organisations," Mr Buse said. "We apologise for this isolated incident."

He added that Singtel will emphasise its marketing standards to both staff members and agencies, as well as remind them of the importance of adhering to industry guidelines, including the Singapore Code of Advertising Practice.

Singtel had earlier said it did not issue the brief that asked Gushcloud's influencers to write negative posts about the other two telcos’ services or network connections. The brief, written by a Gushcloud employee, was widely circulated after it was posted online by local blogger Xiaxue, amid a long-running feud with the company.

Singtel's rivals M1 and StarHub have said they will ask the Infocomm Development Authority to look into the matter.

- CNA/dl

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singtel-apologises-for/1722732.html?cid=fbsg

It comes down to perhaps the monitoring the agencies and the selection. For a start, this Johan Buse should show IDA and the public (why the public? Another day, then tell you if you still don't get it!) what is its marketing standards. I suspect there is none. All campaigns usually has some motherhood objectives and then how the agencies accomplish the objectives are left to them, because Singtel and its agencies don't have a fucking clue.

Previously, Singtel unleashes a spyware on its subscribers computers and then tried to explain it off as an innocuous exploit, without referencing to privacy rights. Singtel has no fucking rights.

This company is a fucking screw up company and if not for its Temasek Holdings backing, it should be dismantled and allowed to crash and burn, for it's a third-rated company with no corporate leadership, just 2-bit administrators in a captive market. It's fucked!

 

[bakkuttay]

Traitor to the people in singapore, go sleep together in oldfart to warm his coffin.

 

[xingguy]

John Tan, get this into your thick skull.
There is no such thing as opposition IB.
If there is, it would have been reported.
You are just talking cock if you can't show us even a shred of report or any link that any opposition party has an opposition IB.

PAP IB is real and has been reported even in the press.
Here are just one of the report, PAP’s quiet counter-insurgency

Another article, THE ETHICS OF THE PAP INTERNET BRIGADE, describes the characteristics of PAP IB and raise the question of who is paying
"Different identities notwithstanding, the PAP IB members share the same beliefs:
1. Blind allegiance to the PAP;
2. Belief in the PAP's hegemony; and
3. Desire to see opposition and democratic politics snuffed out.

For its lack of intelligence and inability to argue on the more substantive level involving policies and politics and its preoccupation with ridiculing and destroying the opposition and PAP's critics, the PAP IB is more a bane than boon to Singapore's democratic well-being and growth."


2. Who's Paying?

The PAP IB project also throws up the question of political ethics.

Given the involvement of many ministers, the Brigade is operating under official sanctions. The question hence arises if the PAP or the Government is financing it.

It is one thing for a political party to use its party funds to set up and run a web site to propagate its policy platform but quite another for it to draw on public resources to enhance its standing with a view to winning elections.

With the amount of money they are paid, the Ministers' time should be spent on listening to Singaporeans and devising and implementing solutions to national problems, rather than sniffing and snuffing out criticisms online."

More links on PAP IB:
PAP fights back
A (dangerously) confused PAP Government

 

[neddy]

Johnny boy,
PAP is Pay and Pay.
No one want to become PAP candidate? Pay money to get them in.
Need writer to sling m&d at Opposition. Pay money to recruit PAP IB.

Did you cause LKY infection? Very bad boy!

Yes yes yes.
Johntan's gloryhole therapy for loong prostate
More lubricant for arse ram
Kraakk ptuii ... stroke stroke stroke
Kraakk ptuii ... stroke stroke stroke
Kraakk ptuii ... stroke stroke stroke

 

[winnipegjets]

Who would believe that Singtel didn't know ...just blame it on the agency?

Here's the problem with sinkapore ...there is no accountability from those in charge. And we wonder why there is NO world class sinkapore company.

 

[winnipegjets]

John Tan, when is Shanmu going to apologize for using false data? When is Cow going to commit hari-kiri, setting an example for his ministerial colleague?

You should also commit hari-kiri too. The PAP will take care of your family after your demise for a week.

 

[JohnTan]

John Tan, when is Shanmu going to apologize for using false data? When is Cow going to commit hari-kiri, setting an example for his ministerial colleague?

You should also commit hari-kiri too. The PAP will take care of your family after your demise for a week.

We are still waiting for WP to commit hari kiri for their gross incompetence in managing Aljunied GRC for the past few years. Same for their lacklustre efforts in running Hougang. Did you see how run down the SMC looks? A growing number of Hougang residents are sick of living in a slum so that Low Thia Khiang can continue to run his little fiefdom as he wishes.

 

[phouse3]

I have named the list of clones of Perspective.

In 2012, after Hougang BE, using one of his clones, he squealed that WP would be embarking on a new internet outreach because the party was unhappy with the MSM coverage of the BE. On another occasion, he said party leadership acknowledged that the successful capture of Aljunied GRC was due to WP's members online presence. On yet another occasion, he authenticated his claim by saying the Aljunied IB tried to dominate over the HG IB during the Hougang BE and thereafter even claimed credit for the successful retention of Hougang.

In the next 12 months, WP successfully cornered the entire social media frequented by opposition supporters.

The WP IB has been fixing SDP non-stop, driving a wedge between the police/voters/PAP and SDP. When "Fred Tan" blurted out that his role was to fix SDP and NSP, his gang members asked him to stage that his account had been hacked and he would be making a police report. Of course the police report never came.

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxk_cMAK18o
GE2011 Tao Nan Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9G4GF56RA
GE2011 Tao Nan Part 2

"Fuck the PAP" was heard. This is the full version of the videos, not the short edited one. It shows the jeering at the Nomination Centre. The boo-boys even hid under NSP's skirt to jeer at GCT and TPL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwvK_tdMdQw
PE2011, who heckled Tony Tan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7everpSRA
Punggol East By-elections. The hooliganism is shocking. Booing, hurling of obscenity and disrupting of other candidates' speeches.

http://www.asiaone.com/A1MEDIA/news/05May11/others/20110504.164508_vandal.jpg
Vandalism of posters (Aljunied GRC)

http://i.imgur.com/kRf4hdR.png
Hijacking of Democracy Wall (Yishun GRC)


Despite all the videos, Terry Xu fabricated a story that CSJ supporters were rowdy hooligans at Hong Lim even when they skipped the event. When proven to be a lie, his puppet Ariffin wrote that it was to illustrate the point that the "Fuck the PAP" video was also not telling the whole story, which ironically is another bullshit.
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/07/respecting-freedom-of-speech-dissecting-a-protest-snafu/

There were also many attempts to framing SDP as behind the "Fuck the PAP" vandalism and hacking of Istana website. I will talk about them later. There will be a third framing on a very serious matter. That explains Terry Xu's hand wringing.

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?202813-more-from-calvin-cheng&p=2147558#post2147558






P.S. JohnTan has been proven to be another IB. This is what he wrote on the hard truth about the WP:

"When JBJ was in charge, WP could only hold Hougang. Most people admired JBJ for doing the dirty job of whacking PAP. Nothing more. People, after whacking PAP, still want PAP in charge.

In recent years, the reason why WP has been gaining votes is because WP has been behaving like PAP. People feel assured with WP because they see a PAP-style party, but wearing blue. WP under Low Thia Khiang was smart enough to switch strategy to win the middle ground.

If WP behaved like a mad dog party like SDP or RP, WP would never had been able to win Aljunied GRC or Punggol-East, and garner over 40% of the votes wherever it contested.

As such, do not expect WP to oppose PAP too much when it comes to national policies. SDP has come out with countless national policy papers and even drafted shadow budgets. But people still don't give them much credit simply because they do not behave like PAP. They don't have tight discipline and they have too many loose cannons or unreliable candidates who jump from party to party."

 

[laksaboy]

Still thick-skinned enough to call it an 'isolated incident'. But of course, the PR department always lies for the company or organisation.


Riot an isolated incident, says PM Lee
Dec 09, 2013
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/riot-isolated-incident-says-pm-lee

Blackouts at Geylang Bahru and Kallang Bahru 'isolated incident': SP PowerGrid
18 Apr 2013
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/blackouts-at-geylang/642986.html

Tighter security on ITE campus after slashing
Mar 13, 2015
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/tighter-security-ite-campus-after-slashing

THE slashing of a teenager at ITE College West on Tuesday was an isolated incident, but security patrols have been increased and measures are being reviewed as the school works with police on the case, said its principal.

 

[mojito]

We are still waiting for WP to commit hari kiri for their gross incompetence in managing Aljunied GRC for the past few years. Same for their lacklustre efforts in running Hougang. Did you see how run down the SMC looks? A growing number of Hougang residents are sick of living in a slum so that Low Thia Khiang can continue to run his little fiefdom as he wishes.

Fiefdom is trending.