by CHERIAN GEORGE May 10th, 2013 UPDATE: New Nation editor Belmont Lay has said sorry to photojournalist Mohd Ishak, with style and humour. It’s a lesson in accountability that even the pro’s can learn from….
by CHERIAN GEORGE April 25th, 2013 Race and religion form the third rail of Singapore politics. They lie in the deep, dark recesses of our national life, ready to strike the reckless and the ignorant…
by CHERIAN GEORGE April 20th, 2013 The government’s well-publicised censorship of the short film, Porn Masala, has provided an opportunity to query Singapore’s arts regulation – an opportunity seized by an excellent panel of speakers…
April 11th, 2013 by KIRSTEN HAN Reproduced with permission from Kirsten Han’s Spuddings blog. Kirsten is doing her MA in Journalism, Media and Communications at Cardiff University on a Chevening scholarship. Whenever discussions over whether…
February 24th, 2013 by GABRIEL WONG HONG ZHE Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims in exalting terms: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, this right includes freedom…
by CHERIAN GEORGE January 4th, 2013 A week after I expressed my hope that the PAP government would stop using the defamation threat in political arguments, it has used a defamation threat in a political…
by CHERIAN GEORGE November 29th, 2012 The Media Convergence Review Panel has missed an opportunity to nudge the Government’s regulatory regime into the 21st century. The Panel took on the challenge of recommending how to…
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…