by CHERIAN GEORGE October 2nd, 2013 The lawsuit that Singapore Press Holdings successfully filed against Yahoo! News has been routinely described as a battle between old media and new media. The subtext: that Yahoo! had…
by CHERIAN GEORGE August 9th, 2013 Shortly before the Media Development Authority made The Independent famous by requiring it to register, a friend who heads a successful news site overseas asked me if this was…
by CHERIAN GEORGE July 29th, 2013 UPDATE, 7 August: The government has dropped contempt of court proceedings after Leslie Chew apologised and took down the offending cartoons. See news report. The government has announced that…
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…