SINGAPORE — It was a wasted opportunity, with the debate over Singapore’s biggest media shake-up in recent times sinking to the lowest common denominator. The online world and instant messages were dominated by just one word that has already become passé. And just one man.taking umbrage at the question asked by a reporter from the rival media house
For that to happen, the government, the biggest stakeholder in the media business, needs to relax its vice-like grip on the paper. That control has chipped away at the paper’s credibility, especially after the 2011 elections, which saw the People’s Action Party suffer its worst-ever election performance.
And when asked by Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh about how editorial independence can be ensured at the new media entity,, and that Singh was doing journalists and editors a “disservice” by suggesting otherwise. If I didn’t do that sort of mental gymnastics, I would not have realised that Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong had said in his latest book, “Walking Tall”, that he was surprised and upset when he realised that the number of permanent residents had been growing steadily in the years before 2011, from 50,000 a year to almost 80,000 in 2008. This was a rare admission that the former PM does not agree with his successor on a policy that continues to divide the country.
So why is ST, which has got most of the playing field to itself, not been able to follow in that paper’s footsteps? Big guns like Google and Facebook have seized a huge slice of the internet pie and SPH just doesn’t have the talent to dislodge these two digital giants.
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