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Is Straits Times inviting guest journalism?

mr.udders — 2009-01-09T08:28:06+08:00

Lynn said:

...instead of questioning the appropriateness of the civil servant’s actions, I want to ask the Straits Times people instead: Is this article supposed to be an example of guest journalism or something?

You see, to the best of my knowledge, the civil servant is not a journalist on the payroll of the Straits Times. He’s not a syndicated columnist. So pray tell, why does he get his own byline on an article that’s prominently featured in a leading newspaper?

Recommended by mr.udders: "An additional angle from which to look at the French cooking fiasco."

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Straits Times Watershed change

at82 — 2007-11-09T02:41:49+08:00

littlespeck said:

the sales decline of the Straits Times is worse than “stagnant” when measured against the recent surge in population.

Last week, it reported that sales for the past year had fallen 0.8% to 381,354 copies.

Despite its near market monopoly and Singapore’s increased use of English, the downward trend over the years has been sharper when calculated on a per capita basis.

Between 1998 and 2007, circulation fell by 2.7% even as the population surged by a record 34%.

Recommended by at82: "No wonder Straits Times can say only say 8 in 10 of their readers think ST is important to their lives."

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Myanmar: “Oh yeah, everything is fine”

2007-10-04T12:10:40+08:00

MoeMaKa Media said:

"while everyone is worried about the situation in Burma, the above video from The Straits Times show Myanmar nationals happily stating that they are happy to be in Singapore and how things are “not so bad” back there besides the curfews and how everything seems to be calm, while smiling at the cameras.”

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Translation of a Burmese newswatch blog's reaction to Singapore's coverage. Original blog entry at http://moemaka.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_4091.html. "

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Straits Times changes its policy due decreasing traffic

tinkertailor — 2007-05-29T18:18:53+08:00

Singapore Election Watch said:

ST: FROM Tuesday, visitors to The Straits Times' (ST) website will not have to pay to read the latest breaking news from Singapore and the world.

Recommended by tinkertailor: "The REAL reason behind the change?"

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Gays should support censorship, Andy Ho says

2007-03-04T21:23:01+08:00

Yawning Bread said:

How he jumped to this is astounding. I can't rebut this logically, because his proposition is beyond logic. Going by his line of argument, heterosexual males, on seeing too many pictures of David Beckham posing as a sex object for females to devour, will either overcompensate by trying to become predator women, or else accept their subordinate status by being no more than toyboys.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "I am glad I wasn't the only one who sprained my brain trying to understand the logic behind Andy Ho's badly written and poorly argued article."

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A Whole Load of Gibberish

at82 — 2006-09-13T02:11:59+08:00

KTM said:

The KTM just read this commentary on a subject he cares about, but he has no idea what Andy Ho is driving at. ...

First, why is the General Household Survey so lame that it doesn't tell us anything about what's going on? Or at least allow us to answer the simple question about whether things are getting better or worse? Can someone go and figure out who to do this right in future years so that we can have household surveys that actually allow us to make some sense of what's really going and answer some simple questions?

Second, the KTM cannot follow Andy's logic. He says that even though the poor are apparently getting poorer, it doesn't tell us anything 'cos the poor 5 years ago may not be the same as the poor 5 years later (i.e., today). It matters meh? Poor means poor loh.

Recommended by at82: "I also dun understand what social mobility got to do with the fact that the bottom 30% have negative income growth. Even if bottom 30% in 2000 is different from the those in 2005, it is still a fact that the bottom of the society is earning lesser than before, what..."

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Evil bloggers?

yuhui — 2006-08-01T17:21:11+08:00

Inex said:

We are not evil. We are your average Singaporeans. We are not a new breed of people that came out of nowhere and start some smear campaigns over the net. ... Just because we chose to blog rather then write a letter doesn't make us morally inferior to anyone in any way.

Recommended by yuhui: "Response to the ST article that (over?) generalised bloggers."

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Hold That Vomit, Please

2005-09-15T22:48:17+08:00

the truth is rarely pure and never simple said:

Chua also makes the absurd claim that the placing of the white elephants on a road-divider can be 'easily construed as falling within the meaning of "public entertainment" as governed by the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act, and required a licence'. Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I think it is quite obvious that if a licence was required to put up the cut-outs, then I must equally apply for a licence should I decide to stand on Orchard Road with a T-shirt saying 'McShit' or when I tie a yellow ribbon round some road-side tree.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "the truth is rarely pure and simple dissects another brainless ST opinion piece"

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Worst. ST Forum Letter. Ever.

2005-09-08T23:18:37+08:00

Agagooga said:

This must take the cake for Worst. Straits Times Forum letter. ~~I have ever read~~ Ever. Even its being awarded a prize, a medallion, a badge, a plaque, a ribbon, a trophy as well as a certificate would be insufficient to recognise the enormity of the situation.

Letters thanking taxi drivers, insignificant queries to government agencies, odes to ~~Kim Jong Il~~ MM Lee, letters from irate Malaysians angry that certain dubious honours (linguistic or culinary) have been erroneously (in their book) awarded to Singapore, notes from expatriates or tourists singing Singapore's praises and paens harkening to the days (10 years ago or so) when the writer wrote his last Forum letter all cannot compare.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

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Spy from ST?

tinkertailor — 2005-05-31T17:02:40+08:00

Forbes.com reports on the ST journalist detained in China:

'On April 22 Ching was investigated by relevant Chinese departments for being involved in espionage,' the foreign ministry said in a statement.

'Ching has admitted that in recent years he has been following the instructions of overseas intelligence organisations and has undertaken intelligence collecting activities on mainland China.

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If you love trees and miss Straits Times

tinkertailor — 2005-04-20T09:40:28+08:00

Rambling Alcoholic tells us why he likes his Palm:

3. Palm still gets free Straits Times on its Avantgo.

Read his 2 other reasons.