TODAY newspaper goes 7 days a week

Heaven helps us.
We are already getting SPH's nauseating propaganda 7 days a week.
And now Mediacorp is going 7 days a week.

In the 70s, Singapore used to have many newspaper publishers including one called "Singapore Herald". It was shut down by the PAP because it did not toe the party line.
Only Straits Times survived and we all know the reasons why.

Total media control is one of the most important tools for the PAP. With all TV channels and newspapers dishing out only pro-PAP stories, it is easy to keep the populace in check and on their side.
Nowhere else in the world would you get 75% of popular votes going to one party, except in Communist  regimes and dictatorships.

While social media has taken away some of that monopoly, the hard truth is that the majority of Singaporeans still read SPH newspapers.
On the positive note, the Internet will continue to get more and more prevalent in societies all over the world, including this tiny country. And social media can only grow increasingly unstoppable.

The day will come when most of the 60% will no longer be daft.



SINGAPORE: Singapore's second-most read newspaper, TODAY, will go seven days a week - with the launch of a Sunday edition from 29 May.

Published by MediaCorp Press, it will add a new reading experience, with features, personality-driven columns as well as topics such as parenting.

It will also offer local and international news and sports.

Readers can also enjoy The New York Times International Weekly as part of their Sunday read.

TODAY on Sunday will be distributed to homes and will be available at major shopping malls, selected convenience stores and all Starbucks coffee outlets.

Managing Director of MediaCorp Press, Patrick Yong, said: "Being only 10 years young and built on a free newspaper business model, the team has decided to make the bold move to introduce a Sunday edition. This shows our dedication to deliver the best and complete reading experience for our readers."

938 Live plays jazz

I wrote an article on journalism previously.

The nauseating media coverage of the elections continue.
A check on Razor TV shows that all 20 of the latest videos are PAP related. Razor TV is an SPH website, Singapore's one and only newspaper company.

Today, Straits Times, an SPH publication, has adopted a different tactic to help the PAP- diversion.
There's no doubt that Bin laden's purported demise is world news. But to give this ten-year old story the first 7-8 pages of today's edition is a little overkill.
I think there were fewer pages devoted to GE2011 and you know whose stories they carried.

938 Live is even more baffling. We see that nearly every opposition rally draws 5000 or more people. Many on the ground are buzzing with excitement (for some fear) over the elections.
You would expect the country's only English news radio station, 938fm, to be jam packed with programs talking about voter issues.
Yet, all you get is the usual news round up on the hour and then 5 minutes worth of PAP candidate speeches and summaries and then.... jazz music!
Where are the political discourse, exchanges, unbiased commentaries etc?
This is probably one of the most important GEs in living memory and yet you play jazz music half the time?
I'd tune into 99.5 Lush if I wanted jazz music.

Shame...