October 21st, 2011 Edited extract from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s speech during the debate on the President’s Address, 20 October 2011. For a PDF of the full speech, click here. It’s necessary and healthy…
Today, I went through my archive of pictures hoping to find an image that might work for the book cover. I settled on a series of photos that I shot at Toa Payoh Stadium around…
October 20th, 2011 Workers’ Party MP Pritam Singh called for a Freedom of Information Act in his speech in Parliament on 20 October 2011. Here is the relevant extract from his speech. What a Freedom…
October 20th, 2011 PAP backbencher Baey Yam Keng has provided one of the most considered establishment assessments of new media in the post-GE period. In contrast to the moral panic that has been sweeping through…
by CHERIAN GEORGE October 19th, 2011 Amy Khor, chairman of REACH, has encouraged the Government to engage netizens on sites that “allow for reasoned and constructive debate and gain traction”. “Netizens themselves who desire rational…
by CHERIAN GEORGE October 17th, 2011 After a General Election in which online dissent left PAP politicians smarting, the government is considering new laws for the internet. It has hinted at stiffer regulation in its…
Last week was my first opportunity to talk in depth about Freedom From The Press. I was a guest speaker the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. The entire 90-minute session was video recorded and…
by CHERIAN GEORGE October 4th, 2011 Text of a presentation at the IPS conference on the Impact of New Media on General Election 2011, 4 October 2011. One major development facilitated by the internet has…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 13th, 2011 This article is based on a talk given at a Singapore Press Club forum on Reporting the 2011 Elections on 13 September 2011 at the SPH Auditorium. This year’s…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 11th, 2011 Singapore was presented with a double bill feature on censorship this month. There was the Wikileaked diplomatic cable reporting that young reporters felt frustrated by newsroom gatekeepers. And there…