March 23, 2009

Howto tackle negative coverage from state-controlled media

sgentrepreneurs said:

Local entrepreneur, Leonard Lin has been making waves with his very popular game, BattleStations and has even been interviewed twice by us. Recently, he suffered a possible case of media coverage gone wrong.

Leonard was featured in a My Paper article (13th March 2009) that according to him, painted “a very negative” picture that he disputes.

Leonard’s comments on the article was sent in an email to MyPaper and also made its rounds on Facebook (you have to be logged in to view the note, otherwise, it’s appended at the end of this article) and has gotten many sympathetic responses. Suppose you are the entrepreneur involved, and you feel that your words were twisted to sensationalize the article, how would you feel?

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Bad journalism at work and how it harms our home-grown SMEs."

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on March 23//8:52am and published by tinkertailor :: 2077 reads | trackback (1)
Comments 6

They even got his surname wrong. Guess SPH really no standards.

Posted by wahlao* on 23 March, 2009 - 3:27pm

Trackback from Van Tan: Quote-misquote:

Another blunder from the same same newspaper. Tsk Tsk!...

wah lau! same newspaper two times quote wrongly!

Ho ho ho. I went to CSI the 2 reporters one is called Dawn Tay one is called Cheryl Lim.

Leonard keep up the good work. :) ie:- Battlestation.
PS. Don't depend on SPH.
A lot of people start playing your game after a Blogger feature it on his blog.
Including Singaporeans who are working overseas and Ang mohs(uk,us -> word of mouth).

Posted by Anonymous Onlooker* on 28 March, 2009 - 1:15pm

What a bunch of losers all of you are ahahahahh!

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 29 March, 2009 - 1:00pm