Alternative Media Blog Posts

“lee kuan yew’s taming of the press”

by Paul Tambyah       From the very first chapter of this book to the last, it is full of detailed and astonishing revelations about the mainstream media in Singapore. It is an incredible resource for those trying to understand the con...
by sparrows and sandcastles on Mar 12, 2013

“the myth of the online bypass”

by Cherian George   When I started writing about press freedom issues more than 25 years ago, most Singaporeans seemed to believe that independent media might actually cause more harm than good in a country that was already pretty well governed.
by sparrows and sandcastles on Feb 25, 2013

Beyond “corpknuz” – tell local media to drop sources of mass disinformation

(Healingtalks The last few days I was reading my local newspaper’s coverage of the Occupy movement, using AP or Associated Press, and was aghast at how the demonstrators, who were attacked by the police with hundreds arrested, were the problem...
by Healing Talks on Jan 31, 2012
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