By KIRSTEN HAN – Bloggers can and should be considered journalists, especially in a country where the lack of independent mainstream media leaves a gap ...
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When watchdogs bark up the wrong tree, let's not airbrush the error by Cherian George May 10th, 2013 When I was art and photo editor of the Straits Times some 15 years ago, having a team of top-notch photojournalistic talent didn't stop us from envying The New Paper for having in its ...
Race and religion form the third rail of Singapore politics. They lie in the deep, dark recesses of our national life, ready to strike the reckless and the ignorant with an untamable force. Most Singaporeans – even many liberals – believe that freedom of expression should not apply in...
The government's well-publicised censorship of the short film, Porn Masala , has provided an opportunity to query Singapore's arts regulation – an opportunity seized by an excellent panel of speakers at a Tembusu College forum on Thursday. Porn Masala was one of three tales in the fil...
Rejecting many of the practices and rules that form the core of mainstream news production, bloggers have very little interest in becoming identical to mainstream media practitioners, but this is in no way an indication of whether they can or cannot be seen as journalists. As this ess...
A week after I expressed my hope that the PAP government would stop using the defamation threat in political arguments, it has used a defamation threat in a political argument . One thing I have learnt from this (not for the first time) is that I have no future as a political consulta...
Media panel decides to let sleeping gods lie by Cherian George November 29th, 2012 The Media Convergence Review Panel has missed an opportunity to nudge the Government’s regulatory regime into the 21st century. The Panel took on the challenge of recommending how to harmonise rules acr...
The PAP has been able to preserve its dominance – which may be fraying at the edges, but by and large preserve its dominance – with diminishing use of power. It is not difficult to preserve dominance if you are willing to ratchet up your abuses every year, applying more and more viole...
In sending a man to jail for violence-ridden Facebook posts, Singapore’s High Court has drawn a line around extreme speech that is more restrictive of political expression than what is widely considered as best practice. The decision reflects Singapore’s well-established preference fo...
