ALL YOU RETARDED DOGS CAN BARK ALL YOU WANT BUT 99% OF SINGAPOREANS LOOK UPON YOU AS CLOWNS WITH ZERO CREDIBILITY 
Singapore's mainstream media holds ground as dominant source of infoBy S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 09 September 2009 1914 hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's mainstream media continues to hold its ground as the dominant source of information, despite developments in the new media scene.
That's the view of Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts. He was speaking during a dialogue with members of the Singapore Press Club on Wednesday.
Keeping up with developments in the new media scene is an on-going challenge, especially with websites emerging daily, said Rear-Admiral(NS) Lui.
He said: "I certainly don't have an army to go and ask who all these people are; they use pseudonyms and are largely anonymous, and may they remain that way.
"There were only three occasions when the police had to step in to take action because the racial remarks that were made were so inflammatory that the police had to come in."
Despite the speed with which websites mushroom, RADM(NS) Lui said surveys showed that Singapore's mainstream media remains the preferred choice. In fact, the Nielsen Media Index of 2008 showed that 75% of people polled selected newspapers as their preferred source of news.
RADM(NS) Lui said: "Unlike some foreign newspapers, the media here in Singapore has not gone for aggressive journalism; they have not gone for aggressive campaigning. They have taken the position that they will investigate thoroughly before they publish.
"If there are good grounds for them to take a certain position, which may be detrimental to the interests of an establishment or an institution, they are prepared to do so and they do so from a point of view of responsibility."
But RADM(NS) Lui added that the established media cannot escape the speed and immediacy of the new media.
- CNA/ir
Singapore's mainstream media holds ground as dominant source of infoBy S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 09 September 2009 1914 hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's mainstream media continues to hold its ground as the dominant source of information, despite developments in the new media scene.
That's the view of Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts. He was speaking during a dialogue with members of the Singapore Press Club on Wednesday.
Keeping up with developments in the new media scene is an on-going challenge, especially with websites emerging daily, said Rear-Admiral(NS) Lui.
He said: "I certainly don't have an army to go and ask who all these people are; they use pseudonyms and are largely anonymous, and may they remain that way.
"There were only three occasions when the police had to step in to take action because the racial remarks that were made were so inflammatory that the police had to come in."
Despite the speed with which websites mushroom, RADM(NS) Lui said surveys showed that Singapore's mainstream media remains the preferred choice. In fact, the Nielsen Media Index of 2008 showed that 75% of people polled selected newspapers as their preferred source of news.
RADM(NS) Lui said: "Unlike some foreign newspapers, the media here in Singapore has not gone for aggressive journalism; they have not gone for aggressive campaigning. They have taken the position that they will investigate thoroughly before they publish.
"If there are good grounds for them to take a certain position, which may be detrimental to the interests of an establishment or an institution, they are prepared to do so and they do so from a point of view of responsibility."
But RADM(NS) Lui added that the established media cannot escape the speed and immediacy of the new media.
- CNA/ir
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