Reference to pastor's father was ill judged

last SG · 2010-07-28T18:12:08+00:00

well, this is really getting more and more comical ....so tell me kid, what sort of "truth from the goverment" do you think the pastor's words hold for you ?...

the Bear SG

I think ST could have used a 3rd person narrative to "quote" rather than fronting the opinon. You get what i am trying to say.....

Sometime it is difficult to tell especially when ST is the main news that represent the main message especially the newspaper have been closely "Edited"

I think the gees is that recently we sees pastor demonstrate lack of EQ. I think media should have taken a Q from that and not repeat the lack of EQ.

sometimes, it's not for the newspapers to make the person look good...

raw news is best... it allows the people to make up their own minds by presenting nothing but facts..

analyses can come inside under "opinions"

otherwise, it must be just news...

Arapahoe SG

sometimes, it's not for the newspapers to make the person look good...

raw news is best... it allows the people to make up their own minds by presenting nothing but facts..

analyses can come inside under "opinions"

otherwise, it must be just news...

control media vs news....

if the article is approved by the editor and whatever that they go thru which representing control media than what gets printed become a message.

That is what i am getting from the letter.

There are many other ways to make the person look bad...in newspaper.

we don't have other source of competition in getting the news.

the Bear SG

control media vs news....

if the article is approved by the editor and whatever that they go thru which representing control media than what gets printed become a message.

That is what i am getting from the letter.

There are many other ways to make the person look bad...in newspaper.

we don't have other source of competition in getting the news.

with the lack of competition, we have to censor the news?

journalists should not and must not allow their feelings to "make someone feel good" to get in the way of reporting the truth..

oh well.. this is my opinion, you have yours...

Fatum SG

control media vs news....

if the article is approved by the editor and whatever that they go thru which representing control media than what gets printed become a message.

That is what i am getting from the letter.

There are many other ways to make the person look bad...in newspaper.

we don't have other source of competition in getting the news.

you're starting to sound like the kid up there ......

let's consider this question. Why should the newspaper have any agenda at all, whether to make the pastor look a little better, by censoring out what he said about his sikh father, or bad, by simply repeating the pastor's own words ?

The issue here is straightforward, to try to warp and stretch it by getting so philosophical about it is just silly, period. What is there about this particular incident to read so deeply into ? This is not the goverment trying to telling you foreigners are good for you, or that HDB resale are still affordable, mate ! *geez ...

here's a rephrase of the question I posed to the kid; what sort of hidden agenda do you think exist ? Was it to insidiously make the sikhs look bad by printing what the pastor said ? or to insidiously make the pastor look bad by by printing what the pastor said ??

you're chasing shadows here mate.

~PEPPER~ SG

YOUR report ('Rise of the megachurches'; July 17), and in particular its reference to Pastor Joseph Prince's father as 'an often drunk Sikh priest...', displayed an unacceptable disregard for minority religions in Singapore.

It is entirely up to Pastor Prince to decide how he wishes to describe his own father. But a national newspaper in a country which prides itself on racial and religious harmony should have known better than to report it.

When a mainstream newspaper reports such a comment, it conveys a false caricature of Sikh priests as drunkards and irresponsible fathers. It also suggests that there was good reason for Pastor Prince to convert from Sikhism to another religion.

The report could have simply mentioned that his father was a drunkard. There was absolutely no reason for the reference to the father's religion.

The report has hurt the feelings of the Sikh community in Singapore.

Surjit Singh
Chairman, Sikh Advisory Board

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EDITOR'S NOTE: We are sorry the reference to Pastor Joseph Prince's father has caused offence and hurt the feelings of the Sikh community. That was never our intention and we apologise for the error of judgment.

Singapore is a multi-religious society. We should not say things that might threaten our religious harmony in our countries.

Arapahoe SG

you're starting to sound like the kid up there ......

you're chasing shadows here mate.

hur.....i think there are 2 seperate issues here.

there is this news article and there is the Strait times.

I am not saying this news article is censored. But i am saying because Sg has only 1 paper as such the process of getting news printed information are managed and intended to serve the community.

Readers read and it fudge between state message vs individual news.

Fatum SG

hur.....i think there are 2 seperate issues here.

there is this news article and there is the Strait times.

I am not saying this news article is censored. But i am saying because Sg has only 1 paper as such the process of getting news printed information are managed and intended to serve the community.

Readers read and it fudge between state message vs individual news.

*sigh ... of course there are two separate issues here, which was exactly my point too.

read what I wrote again .....

and I'll repackage the same questions, yet again.

since you said,

(sic)
" if the article is approved by the editor and whatever that they go thru which representing control media than what gets printed become a message. "

so what do you, a reader, think the "hidden state message" was, in this case ?

Was it to insidiously consipire with the pastor to make the sikhs look bad ?

Or was it to make the pastor look bad by printing out the pastor own words about his father, who happened to be a sikh ?

if more people harbor similar views then perhaps I've ascribed more intelligence to other readers of the news than I should have.

elindra SG

I think the Catholics should start taking offence with ST for writing articles about Catholic Priests sodomising little boys

Same line of reasoning with what the letter writer wrote then.

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