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The aim of this statement is three-fold.
1. The newspaper wants to slight blogs and social media as being media platforms which are not credible. It wants to discourage the reading of blogs and social media.
2. The newspaper wants to justify that it’s worth your effort to write into the Forum Page, instead of create your own blog or use social media, by highlighting its “much wider” readership.
3. In doing so, if you are less likely to set up a blog or use social media, and more more likely to write into the Forum Page, the newspaper would be able to centralise discussion on that platform. If their strategy works and you do not see the need to create too many competing platforms, then they would be able to effectively centralise and control the discussion in Singapore, by publishing only letters which are “approved”.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2012/10/19/how-the-government-uses-own-mouthpiece-to-shape-own-propaganda/
1. The newspaper wants to slight blogs and social media as being media platforms which are not credible. It wants to discourage the reading of blogs and social media.
2. The newspaper wants to justify that it’s worth your effort to write into the Forum Page, instead of create your own blog or use social media, by highlighting its “much wider” readership.
3. In doing so, if you are less likely to set up a blog or use social media, and more more likely to write into the Forum Page, the newspaper would be able to centralise discussion on that platform. If their strategy works and you do not see the need to create too many competing platforms, then they would be able to effectively centralise and control the discussion in Singapore, by publishing only letters which are “approved”.
- http://thehearttruths.com/2012/10/19/how-the-government-uses-own-mouthpiece-to-shape-own-propaganda/
