Extracted from EDMW:
New media offers a deluge of information but only those
sources that have credibility will thrive, said Minister Mentor Lee
Kuan Yew.
'And I believe our media is
credible,' he said in response to a question from a communication
studies undergraduate.
The student had noted the twin trends of an increasingly educated -
and critical - youth population, and the growing popularity of the
Internet. He wanted to know how these trends affected Singapore's
media policy.
Mr Lee replied by noting that there had been 'a gradual opening up
of porosity' that was inevitable with modern technology.
'The problem now is credibility,' he said.
'You can have any information you want, right or wrong, sound ones,
some crazy otherwise on the Internet.
'So at the end of the day, each individual has to decide, who does
he believe? Therefore if our media is to have any impact, they must
remain credible.'
Remarking that he believed the media here to be credible, he added
that judging from the hits on the Internet for Lianhe Zaobao, the
Chinese daily, and The Straits Times, it was obvious that 'when
people want to read about the region and Singapore', they read
these sites.
This was why he was 'not unduly upset when people say, oh, we are a
closed society'.
'How can we be a closed society? There is no magazine which you
want to buy which you cannot have.
'We do not block any access to any website, nor do we trace you on
Yahoo or Google,' he said, to laughter.
Source: ST
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shameless MM self-praise! 
