(Posted to www.channelnewsasia.com on 10.7.2005-awaiting
approval)
I am happy to come to this site because I read its caption on the
forum that it is an unmoderated forum.
Upon entering the forum, I am surprised to see that some postings
are awaiting approval to appear in print.
In this day and age, information is available everywhere and coming
from everyone, right or wrong worthy or not is another matter.
Adults should be mature to make up their minds whether to read or
believe in them.
People accept them with whatever their worthiness of any
information.
If CNA wants to provide regional news and reach out to more people,
it should review its current policy and not try to control
information flow such as approving of any posting. Let people post
naturally and there will be greater depths and maturity and there
will be originality and creativity.
I think it is necessary for CNA to follow what the great station
like CNN or BBC are doing. So I hope it will not be influenced by
the government into editing or controlling information and allow
this post to appear without deletion.
Singaporeans so far cannot come out of their cocoon and make
international impacts in science, technology and many human
enddeavours because of controls established to serve limited
political agendas of those in charge.
Such control-oriented news will not do good for Singapore in the
long run although in the short run, the governance tasks are more
stable and tolerable.
I recommend that there is no need to approve postings and please
warn people with proper advice that they should observe netiquette
instead of resorting to moderating information calling it
unmoderated. What a contradiction in terms!!!
