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What do I mean when I say I felt like being jerked around by the Straits Times? Let me give you an example.
Lately a journalist phoned me for a comment in response to a survey conducted (or mis-conducted, as one could say of the choice of language in the question) for the Singapore Conversation. See earlier article about it here. And oh, by the way, I have since heard from a source who said, “All the researchers involved were Christian.”
As pointed out in the earlier article, the survey revealed that those who told survey-takers that they “reject gay lifestyles” have now fallen below 50 percent. Among younger and better-educated respondents, those who are accepting of “gay lifestyles” now roughly equal those who do not.
In the phone conversation, the journalist kept coming back to a point that a member of parliament had made to her when she asked this MP for his comment. According to the reporter, the MP’s reply was to bemoan the “polarisation” that the survey uncovered. As for whether the future would see even greater acceptance of gay people, the MP’s response was to warn against even more polarisation. Further pushing by gay people for equal rights would, implicitly, be the kind of action that would exacerbate such polarisation.
The journalist then kept asking me if I agreed with this assessment and what I would say in response. I tried my best, but it was no easy task holding back my annoyance.
What was I annoyed about?
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...imes-and-government-walk-into-sinking-sunset/
Lately a journalist phoned me for a comment in response to a survey conducted (or mis-conducted, as one could say of the choice of language in the question) for the Singapore Conversation. See earlier article about it here. And oh, by the way, I have since heard from a source who said, “All the researchers involved were Christian.”
As pointed out in the earlier article, the survey revealed that those who told survey-takers that they “reject gay lifestyles” have now fallen below 50 percent. Among younger and better-educated respondents, those who are accepting of “gay lifestyles” now roughly equal those who do not.
In the phone conversation, the journalist kept coming back to a point that a member of parliament had made to her when she asked this MP for his comment. According to the reporter, the MP’s reply was to bemoan the “polarisation” that the survey uncovered. As for whether the future would see even greater acceptance of gay people, the MP’s response was to warn against even more polarisation. Further pushing by gay people for equal rights would, implicitly, be the kind of action that would exacerbate such polarisation.
The journalist then kept asking me if I agreed with this assessment and what I would say in response. I tried my best, but it was no easy task holding back my annoyance.
What was I annoyed about?
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...imes-and-government-walk-into-sinking-sunset/
