Deadpoet’s Cave

… also must give solution.

Mr Brown is taken to task for pointing out price increases in Today.

It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in Singapore to champion issues, or campaign for or against the Government. If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass media to undermine the Government’s standing with the electorate, then he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan player in politics.

K BHAVANI
Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts

1. Mr Brown is a journalist? I thought he was a mere blogger. A non-anonymous one at that. (And you wonder why some bloggers want to remain anonymous.)
2. There’s only black and white? I don’t see how his article makes him a partisan player in politics. Just because you publicly disagree with the government on issues doesn’t make you a ‘partisan player’. I’d take partisan to mean that he is actively supporting and promoting a particular other political party. That would be partisan.

We are entitled to our views. But don’t we dare circulate our views, especially if our views “encourage cynicism and despondency”.

Be happy, people! Be Shiny, Happy People! (Apologies to R.E.M.) Singapura, oh Singapura. Pretty flowers bloom for you and meeeeeee…

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