by CHERIAN GEORGE November 26th, 2012 Most Singapore undergrads favour promoting responsibility among netizens, but they feel even more strongly that professional journalism needs to be accountable to the public. Whichever the medium, though, there…
by CHERIAN GEORGE November 14th, 2012 At the Singapore Writers Festival on Saturday 10 November 2012, I spoke about my book Freedom From The Press and Singapore’s media system with P N Balji, former editor…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 24th, 2012 The Singapore government’s order to block the anti-Islam video Innocence of Muslims here has been relatively uncontroversial. Singaporeans are comfortable with the idea that free speech should not be…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 20th, 2012 The Singapore Government’s order that Google block YouTube viewers here from watching an extreme anti-Islam video is a case of several wrongs not making a right. It also shows,…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 15th, 2012 In sending a man to jail for violence-ridden Facebook posts, Singapore’s High Court has drawn a line around extreme speech that is more restrictive of political expression than what…
Text of a talk at the Singapore Management University law school, 3 September 2012. When I started writing about press freedom issues more than 25 years ago, most Singaporeans seemed to believe that independent media…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 4th, 2012 Text of a talk delivered at the Singapore Management University law school on 3 September. When I started writing about press freedom issues more than 25 years ago, most…
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by CHERIAN GEORGE August 13th, 2012 One of the biggest challenges I set myself in writing Freedom From The Press was to ensure that an essentially academic monograph would also be accessible by the lay…
Sharaad Kuttan of Malaysia’s business radio station, BFM, did an interview with me for his programme about the media. The interview starts at the tail end of the first segment of his 16 June 2012…