Yawning Bread on how alternative media has trumped the mainstream

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yawningbread.wordpress.com 25 Dec '12, 12pm

Yawning Bread on how alternative media has trumped the mainstream

A funny thing happened on Tuesday 18 December 2012. Three mainstream media reporters called me asking the same thing: Do I know anything about construction workers going on strike in Yishun? They said that Andrew Loh had a story on Yahoo! and Publichouse about such a strike and they needed urgently to confirm the veracity of it. “Is the story true? Where is the worksite? I rang Andrew to congratulate him on the scoop and to tell him about the calls I received. In return, he told me how he got it. The workers had been unhappy for some time and had approached both the Ministry of Manpower and a local non-government organisation for help. I’m not sure that the NGO wants to be named, so I won’t. As is so often the case, the ministry officials were seen by the workers as unhelpful, and the workers felt they had to escalate the matter if they’re going to get any solution at all....

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@robobr7 » 26 Dec '12, 2am
#Singapore's media scooped (again) by blog on migrants' strike. They're clearly having a tough time being 'mainstream' [link]
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@sarahbmyers » 25 Dec '12, 8pm
RT @danielgoh: When newsmakers turn to the alternative media instead of going mainstream. [link] #Singapore
@verydeepsleep » 25 Dec '12, 4pm
Growing gap between MSM and reality on the ground. This day was a long time coming. [link]
@danielgoh » 25 Dec '12, 3pm
When newsmakers turn to the alternative media instead of going mainstream. [link] #Singapore
@jolantru » 25 Dec '12, 3pm
RT @kixes: Hurray Alex Au. Pfft @STcom [link]
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"As long as our mainstream media is unable to break out of the government’s grip, it will not gain the public’s... [link]
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RT @tocsg: Alex Au on the vocal minority/silent majority divide: "The problem now is that while indeed the mainstream... [link]
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"But at some point, people will see that the tables have been turned and that it is the Straits Times (and TODAY),... [link]
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Alex Au on the vocal minority/silent majority divide: "The problem now is that while indeed the mainstream... [link]
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RT @jennyteo: Is "silent majority" a misnomer? [link] #Singapore
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Is "silent majority" a misnomer? [link] #Singapore
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