Straits Times’s Jessica Lim, a journalist or spin doctor?
September 30th, 2010 | Author: Contributions
In an article with the most inappropriate headline “YOG boosts tourism“, ST journalist Jessica Lim proclaims that “the number of tourists to Singapore last month shot up 18 percent compared to August last year, DUE IN PART to the Youth Olympic Games”. (original article here)
According to the figures on STB’s website on visitor growth rate (over the year) for the last 4 months:
May 2010 grew by 30.3%
Jun 2010 grew by 26.7%
Jul 2010 grew by 24.1%
Aug 2010 grew by 18.0% <<<<<<<< LOWEST
So in fact the growth rate of 18.0% in August 2010 is the LOWEST in the past 4 months. How then can this be a “BOOST” due to YOG as claimed by her? Comparatively, the growth rate in May, June and July is higher without YOG.
In case Jessica Lim is not aware of, there is such a thing called the Internet and on the Internet, there are search engines called Google, Yahoo, Seek, etc which makes retrieving information a few keystrokes away. Why she choose to plug figures instead of spending a few minutes of her time to research these data is beyond comprehension, unless of course it was intentionally done to mislead.
Maybe Jessica Lim has a low IQ. She can’t distinguish the difference between the thousands of YOG athletes and officials and real tourists or even those that came to watch the YOG.
Or maybe the complacent local media is really thinking that Singaporeans are so very daft that their sorry excuse of a journalist can simply plug figures out of thin air, play some word twisting, spin a little and Singaporeans will swallow Bait, Hook and Sinker?
Forecaster Extraordinarie II
September 30th, 2010 | Author: Contributions
In an article with the most inappropriate headline “YOG boosts tourism“, ST journalist Jessica Lim proclaims that “the number of tourists to Singapore last month shot up 18 percent compared to August last year, DUE IN PART to the Youth Olympic Games”. (original article here)
According to the figures on STB’s website on visitor growth rate (over the year) for the last 4 months:
May 2010 grew by 30.3%
Jun 2010 grew by 26.7%
Jul 2010 grew by 24.1%
Aug 2010 grew by 18.0% <<<<<<<< LOWEST
So in fact the growth rate of 18.0% in August 2010 is the LOWEST in the past 4 months. How then can this be a “BOOST” due to YOG as claimed by her? Comparatively, the growth rate in May, June and July is higher without YOG.
In case Jessica Lim is not aware of, there is such a thing called the Internet and on the Internet, there are search engines called Google, Yahoo, Seek, etc which makes retrieving information a few keystrokes away. Why she choose to plug figures instead of spending a few minutes of her time to research these data is beyond comprehension, unless of course it was intentionally done to mislead.
Maybe Jessica Lim has a low IQ. She can’t distinguish the difference between the thousands of YOG athletes and officials and real tourists or even those that came to watch the YOG.
Or maybe the complacent local media is really thinking that Singaporeans are so very daft that their sorry excuse of a journalist can simply plug figures out of thin air, play some word twisting, spin a little and Singaporeans will swallow Bait, Hook and Sinker?
Forecaster Extraordinarie II
