Cooling Off Day

There will be no rallies made today, but publications still have to go on.

Let's see what these newspapers say.

Quoted from the International Herald Tribune - The Global Edition of the New York Times.

"The tightly controlled city-state",

"In a nation where government opponents are often sued over defamation",

"where carefully vetted public speech has been permitted only in a little park called Speakers' Corner", 

"the barriers to entry into political discourse and the accompanying risks have been so high", 

"Mainstream media are tightly controlled and have not acted as a check on the government, experts say."

"Now that barriers to entry(Online political speech was technically illegal in 2006 GE) to political dialogue have fallen, the effect has been electric."

"Rather than attempting to suppress the online political organizing, as China and Vietnam have done, Singapore is taking a gamble on making it part of the legal campaign system."

"I don't think they have a choice." - Mr. Brown.

"Online coverage has forced the main pro-government newspaper, The Straits Times, to publish fuller and not always critical news and photographs of opposition campaigns" - Alex Au, a prominent blogger.(Though I don't know who is he)

Totally, SLAMMED. To think that we were painted beautiful images of how Singapore is moving into the global landscape. I THINK, to them, we're not too different from Tibet, or N.Korea.

You might question the credibility of it, or engage in a debate about some of the points. But it won't change the fact that they are a bigger publication agency than our local one, and that they are definitely, without a doubt, more credible than our local's.

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Now let's see what straits times got to tell us.


In the cover page, 


"I have served Aljunied for 23 years; I'm not going anywhere." -George Yeo

"MM Lee taunted me to stand in a GRC. So here I am." -Low Thia Khiang


I think I have moved beyond the point of being disappointed at our local publications. This have entered what I define as 'beyond expectations'. I shall not quote the rest. They gave separate accounts for the PAP, and the WP's. Few comparisons. But there are definitely some quotes that are taken out of context to provide a misinformed view of the reader.

And seems that Aljunied is the main concerned of the PAP, as spelled out by the Straits Times. Don't you feel that they should be writing something related to the Nation's interest in the headlines?

Overall, it's not really too bad. Look at the publications prior to GE 2006 and you'll understand why.

Happy Cooling Off Day!