analysis of TREmeritus strategy #sgpolitics

TREmeritus' change of tack and what it means for the blogosphere

journalism.sg 24 Feb '12, 6am

analysis of TREmeritus strategy #sgpolitics

Gadfly group blogs, meanwhile, may have internal disagreements about legal risks. One example was The Online Citizen’s policy towards Cooling Off Day in last year’s General Election. When I interviewed founding editor Andrew Loh some months earlier, he made it clear that he was inclined to ignore the Cooling Off Day restriction on principle – this was meant to be a ban on campaigning, and he did not see why citizens should be stopped from discussing the campaign. The letter of the law exempts licensed news media from the ban, so it could be argued that the spirit of the law should give citizen media similar leeway. Loh was the editor in charge of TOC’s election coverage, and duly published articles after the guillotine time. He took the calculated risk that TOC could get away with it (which it did). However, I am told that his position was not unanimously supported within ...

Full article: http://journalism.sg/2012/02/24/tremeritus-change-of-tack...

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@raymondjwlau » 25 Feb '12, 2pm
4 modes of "speaking truth to power" in the Singapore blogosphere. Good read. [link]
@tocsg » 24 Feb '12, 4pm
"Looking at the online landscape in this way also shows why the government’s use of defamation law against TRE can... [link]
@occupysg » 24 Feb '12, 3pm
Cherian George forgets Truth is an absolute defence to defamation. [link]
@jhecking » 24 Feb '12, 2pm
Interesting commentary about Singapore's political blogosphere. [link]
@singaporesurf » 24 Feb '12, 2pm
TREmeritus' Change Of Tack And What It Means For The Blogosphere: Cherian George, Journalism.sg: The defamation... [link]
@NAR_sg » 24 Feb '12, 10am
The defamation threats, issued within days of TRE’s much publicised change of direction, has basically... [link]
@sgelectorate » 24 Feb '12, 7am
Cherian George : TRE' change of tack and what it means for the Blogosphere [link] #sgpolitics
@lefouque » 24 Feb '12, 6am
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@arockefeller » 24 Feb '12, 6am
Cherian George has done us all a huge favour by pointing out the several modes of attack on offer to an active citizen. [link]
@Amusedkid_Denis » 24 Feb '12, 11am
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TREmeritus' change of tack and what it means for the blogosphere

analysis of TREmeritus strategy #sgpolitics

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