"he
alluded to how criticism of Singapore in relation to press freedom
sometimes reached levels "quite absurd and divorced from
reality".
Take the World Press Freedom index by Reporters Without Borders, a
Paris-based non-government organisation, which last year ranked
Singapore 144 out of 173 countries - below even Guinea, whose
military junta of late was reported to have gunned down people and
had women raped on the streets."
"One
source of some media's dislike of Singapore: The famous tussles the
Government has had with publications like the Wall Street Journal
and the Far Eastern Economic Review. The Government's stand, he
reiterated, is: Criticise us, sure, but we demand the right of
response. And if the line is crossed to making "allegations of fact
against someone ... then there will be a libel
suit".
It is not something the press are used to, so "every lawsuit is met
with the same reaction - we are out to silence the press". But
having read some of the articles at the centre of suits, he feels
"it would have been perfectly possible to have been deeply critical
of government policies ... without the addition of totally
unnecessary remarks on some form of corruption"."
...will the cursed despot
with a zombie wife and his asslicking and sh!t tasting running dogs
dare to bring the libel suits to an international, independent
court?
Who is divorced from
reality? Farking selling propaganda in the
press.