June 13, 2005

Ode to nosy reporters

LeMason said:

Your role is to report news in as objective a manner as possible. Don't they teach you these things in journalism classes? Or have they lowered their standards and made paparazzi material out of all of you? You yourselves shamelessly dig into the private lives of others just so to get a scoop and you decide who you want to glorify-- someone like Xiaxue is deemed as doing her country proud and letting the rest of the world know about life in Singapore, while a very much better writer like Sarong Party Girl is typecasted as someone who's shamed the nation.

LeMason lashes out at reporters after the expose over SPG's blog.

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Submitted by Peranakan Dude on June 13//10:39am and published by jseng :: 2284 reads | trackback (1)
Comments 2

I've not read the ST for a long time but if the reaction from all your comments are anything to go by, I'm better off not reading the ST. A cup of kopi-o for 80 cents is a better daily investment, helps the kopi-tiam uncle stay in business, too.

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