September 28, 2005

Mr Wang slams ST op-ed on blogs

Mr Wang said:

"Today, your Straits Times Annoying Article of the Day is an article by Carl Skadian, who is so senior a journalist that he really ought to know better. Carl is unhappy with the three seditious bloggers, and so is Mr Wang (see my earlier posts), but here Carl has commited the gross error of massive over-generalisation. He writes as if the vast majority of bloggers are also wildly racist, and anti-this-religion and anti-that-religion.

Of course, this is simply untrue, and if Carl had done just a little more homework for his article, he would have known better...."

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Trackback from Singapore Ink:

It seems not one day passes without news of how bloggers have done something wrong. “Schools act against students for ‘flaming’ teachers on blogs” makes today’s front page in the ST, which begins...

Trackback from The Void Deck:

LIbel? WTF are we thinking? This kind of remark is considered libel? Purleaze... I read dozens of better more tak kong one-liners every day at Sammyboy!...

Trackback from Jeff's Blog:

Carrllll!!! What sort of blogs have you been reading?!! ...

Ha. Was reading the column this morning and thinking what a load of bullshit it was. Then I was wondering if anyone else would have noticed it and pointed out just how flawed the article was.

Funny how the mainstream press seems to keep portraying blogging as something that is subversive and anti-mainstream and even potentially dangerous.

Maybe in the near future wannabe-rebels will say that they blog and hence are so cool.

So maybe blogging can finally go back to being cool again :)

"For you, Skadian, I tar all of you too.
PAP? No, ST Bugs Me More.
With morally righteous and pro-establishment articles on the ST, how do we keep kids from believing everything they read?"

xenoboy strikes back .. rotfl

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 28 September, 2005 - 5:53pm

Trackback from PAP? No, ST Bugs Me More.:

I'm talking about the Straits Times.

As a Sg blogger, I'm naturally wary of ST already, mainly because ST journalists are wont to throw objectivity out of the window....

Trackback from From a Singapore Angle:

...now and then, one of their columnists will manage to produce something that makes me wonder if my subscription to STI is really worth it......

Trackback from Cold Mocha and it is all HIS FAULT!:

Carl Skadian, a Straits Times Senior Journalist says that “checking facts seems.... consequences be damned.”

Basically he is declaring war. Throwing one big splat of red paintball on all bloggers. Bad choice....

Trackback from From a Singapore Angle: "It's official now: blogs are worse than porn":

I'm neither a die hard fan nor critic of the Straits Times. But now and then, one of their columnists will manage to produce something that makes me wonder if my subscription to STI is really worth it......

STI always provides comic relief to the educated. & someone has to pay for all that propaganda, so why not you

"But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of- "Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!" It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse"

Trackback from Too Many Thoughts:

Indeed, I don't care about being demonized at a personal level because I know why I blog and why I read blogs, and my blog speaks for itself. What incenses me is that the current wave of negative publicity could lead to two equally ominous outcomes.......

Trackback from We Are Bloggers, Our Name Is Legion - Cowboy Caleb:

Zeus aka Cowboy Caleb saw this coming a long time ago. In this piece he wrote in Apr 2005, he talks about why you should behave yourself online because what you do reflects on the rest of us....

Trackback from e pur si muove:

Pointing an accusing finger can be easy to do, but one seldom remembers that there are three fingers pointing back at oneself....

What's the big deal? It's one man's opinion.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 29 September, 2005 - 2:43pm

Trackback from penis extender:

I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion....