SPH Editor-In-Chief Bashes SIngapore Online Alternative News Media

[xingguy]

Source: Red Wire Times

SPH Editor-In-Chief Bashes SIngapore Online Alternative News Media
April 28th, 2014 | by CowBoyJohnny

“If you want to bash out a story without checking facts, there is a market for that. But that’s not our market.”

That was the criticism heaped on independent news websites by Patrick Daniel, the editor-in-chief of English and Malay newspapers for Singapore Press Holdings.

He said that while independent news websites in Singapore “have their audience”, they serve people who are less interested in credible news.

“The online publishing space is wide, and we can’t be all things to everyone. So we just have to know who our audience is and be the trusted source of information.”

“They have their audience and we have ours. All power to them,” he said. “We have our audience to serve, and we have to do as good a job as we can.”

Daniel also said that SPH isn’t afraid of competition from international news agencies.

“Our strength is that we know our town best, it’s our territory. We have far more resources to throw at a story locally,”

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[virus]

Credible news, Nicole Seah seen with married man. Duh.

 

[hokkien]

credible news, all chao ah nehs are leaving singapore

 

[bakkuttay]

Breaking credible news! Lorry seen turning into oxley road.

 

[Cerebral]

Hmmm... they have started discrediting online platforms... for GE?

 

[laksaboy]

They must be getting desperate... declining viewership, subscriptions and ad revenue?

When it hurts their pockets it gets personal. It becomes a war.

Piss off, you disgusting SPH presstitutes. :oIo:

 

[laksaboy]

Hmm... it seems like the SPH doggies are now into Operation: 'Shore Up His Legacy'.

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/si...revisit-landmark-events-spores-history-we-def

Look, it's our friend Patrick Daniel, accompanied by Lawrence Wong.

 

[winnipegjets]

A typical frog-in-well sinkee. He doesn't know what is credibility. He is a laughing stock in the international media community. His broadsheet is no different from the PRC or Myanmar newspapers.

 

[scroobal]

His journalist peers around the World repeatedly rated them badly for their of lack of independence and partiality. It's an established track record. The internet has revealed more things than these arseholes. In the Brompton case, the netizen accessed publicly available records with a bit of sweat to break the case. Fucking dishonest and lazy morons.

 

[tanakow]

Credible news: Tony Tan attended a football match during the Elected Presidential hustings.

 

[scroobal]

Imagine they are all scholars including PD who topped his cohort in Harvard, rising star of the admin service, ex DS of the most sought ministry and yet can be bought over. Nothing to do with ideology, belief or principles, just do what ever you need to do to please your political masters.

 

[Sinkie]

If Today is free, why ST is charging?

 

[zhihau]

Imagine they are all scoopers

do they scoop from SBF?

 

[scroobal]

It's days are numbered as newsprint is no longer the main source of news. There is also the lagged effect that cannot be overcome. With little credibility, the situation is even worse.

Ask them to do a single poll to a wide Singapore audience - is Alex Au or SPH more credible? I think we know the answer to that.

 

[Satyr]

They must be getting desperate... declining viewership, subscriptions and ad revenue?

When it hurts their pockets it gets personal. It becomes a war.

Piss off, you disgusting SPH presstitutes. :oIo:

This is the funny thing. They are trying hard to make it better but they don't realize, unless they chop off the gangrenous bits, nothing helps. Half the people who still read them are contemptuous of them.

 

[Satyr]

It's days are numbered as newsprint is no longer the main source of news. There is also the lagged effect that cannot be overcome. With little credibility, the situation is even worse.

Ask them to do a single poll to a wide Singapore audience - is Alex Au or SPH more credible? I think we know the answer to that.

The credibility factor is vital. Even a digital ST will suffer from a lack of credibility. When they start featuring Page 3 girls, you know the end is near.

 

[frenchbriefs]

the newspaper ranks 154th in the world is interested in credibility and fact checking....wow.

 

[zhihau]

When they start featuring Page 3 girls, you know the end is near.

would No-Porn Lui flip?

 

[Satyr]

would No-Porn Lui flip?

By flipping do you mean he would go crazy or he would be just flip to the next page ?
It depends. Page 3 features mammaries. This is not in great supply in local girls. They might need FT.
This will then be used to indoctrinate Sinkies as to why we need FTs. No-porn will just make the ultimate sacrifice and he will grin and bear it.

 

[looneytan]

When they start featuring Page 3 girls, you know the end is near.

when they start Page 1 girls, it is the end