Thursday, July 13, 2006
Singaporeans are not to be trusted by their governments.
That is what they and the ST will have you believe.
"Singaporeans will lose confidence in the Government if it does not rebut distorted views expressed in the mainstream media, said Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang."
Oh no! Singaporeans... are such fickle-minded people. Tell us one thing, anything, in our highly untrustworthy and unreliable mainstream media, and we will always believe it, such that any 'distortion of truth' made by anyone, even a humourous blogger, 'will make it more difficult for the Government to rally Singaporeans for national objectives'.
"'We understand that there will be certain elements of humour, sarcasm and cynicism expressed on the Internet and we just let it be. It is not our intention to chase after every single posting,' he added.
But the crux of the matter is that Mr Lee's comments were carried in the mainstream media, which the Government expects to be responsible, accurate and objective in its reporting."
You mean 'non-partisan'? Aka 'does criticise any government policy', even though the government does not equate Singapore and that in any other country but ours, bringing faulty government policies to the eyes of the people is a sign of patriotism and caring for the nation's well-being.
"'They must adopt the model that they're part of the nation- building effort rather than going out and purveying views that will mislead people, confuse people, which will in fact undermine our national strategy,' said Dr Lee."
You mean the 'PAP-building' effort, that after having taken a beating at the Elections this year, must be strengthened, especially in light of - yes, we all of the powers of predictability - the upcoming bus fare hikes and erm... whatever else hikes tt can possibly occur after election that has not already been mentioned? GST, for example?
Yep, we are so easily misled and confused.
"Singaporeans will lose confidence in the Government if it does not rebut distorted views expressed in the mainstream media, said Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang."
Oh no! Singaporeans... are such fickle-minded people. Tell us one thing, anything, in our highly untrustworthy and unreliable mainstream media, and we will always believe it, such that any 'distortion of truth' made by anyone, even a humourous blogger, 'will make it more difficult for the Government to rally Singaporeans for national objectives'.
"'We understand that there will be certain elements of humour, sarcasm and cynicism expressed on the Internet and we just let it be. It is not our intention to chase after every single posting,' he added.
But the crux of the matter is that Mr Lee's comments were carried in the mainstream media, which the Government expects to be responsible, accurate and objective in its reporting."
You mean 'non-partisan'? Aka 'does criticise any government policy', even though the government does not equate Singapore and that in any other country but ours, bringing faulty government policies to the eyes of the people is a sign of patriotism and caring for the nation's well-being.
"'They must adopt the model that they're part of the nation- building effort rather than going out and purveying views that will mislead people, confuse people, which will in fact undermine our national strategy,' said Dr Lee."
You mean the 'PAP-building' effort, that after having taken a beating at the Elections this year, must be strengthened, especially in light of - yes, we all of the powers of predictability - the upcoming bus fare hikes and erm... whatever else hikes tt can possibly occur after election that has not already been mentioned? GST, for example?
Yep, we are so easily misled and confused.
# posted by Kitana @ 7/13/2006 09:03:00 AM 
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and the scary thing is that most of the general public will be going "yea, Mr Brown very bad, Mr Brown villian, Internet is bad breeding ground"
And the sad fact is that no one will remember this incident 4 years down the road, when it really matters in voting
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And the sad fact is that no one will remember this incident 4 years down the road, when it really matters in voting
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