2012 has been the most eventful year for Singapore in recent years. From sex scandals involving top civil servants, SMRT breakdown, foreign workers’ strikes over pay issues to scandalous AIM’s role in the management of Town Councils’ computer systems. I was wondering how different it was in the past when media was widely proclaimed to be controlled by the government. Were there similar headlines grabbers being masked through hard media censorship. If so, the government now face challenging media opponent with no legal answers to them, given that a couple of the editors are based overseas.
Nonetheless, with social media things will never be the same again. In fact, most of the juiciest news actually comes from social media like facebook and blogs. While I am not impressed with how the Real Singapore, a blog site, editorial their post, often stirring the emotions of Singaporeans unnecessarily through misquoting the origins like STOMP, people are seemingly accepting face value of the information provided on the internet. I wonder how much more damage to the social fabrics these minorities can do, swaying those sitting on the fence to their side through misquoted news. I am just afraid that come next elections, we will have a coalition government that will impede the nation’s progress though political disagreement on policies ahead, just like the republicans and the democrats of US.
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