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fotomakiki81 karma

Do the editors at Straits Times not care at all about the quality of their reporting? Or do Singaporeans truly deserve the media we have? I am a paying subscribers to a few online news channels but wouldn't even bother to read my free quota of ST articles. How can we as consumers play our part to push ST to be more independent and produce good articles (like investigative ones). Or maybe it's a pipe dream???

fotomakiki20 karma

"Unfortunately, many Singaporeans have decided not to care because they think they can get enough information and ideas elsewhere."

In that sense maybe the "alternative" media like the TOC hasn't really been doing us a favour at all. I appreciate the alternative coverage and the existence of such channels is a counterpoint to the MSM. But to many, the fact that the alternative media exists is enough already. It is not! We're still seeing crap on MSM and we expect alternative media to provide another view point while we sit back passively and "see show". Sorry for the rant but I feel that the quality of our Straits Times is really quite shameful. I'm not even sure who's responsible for this!

fotomakiki4 karma

I'll just say though that FOIA has been used as a weapon as well.

https://medium.com/@kevinfolta/knock-it-the-eff-off-with-the-foia-abuse-8a96284dd5c7