What I particularly like about people in the opposition crowd is that they clearly lack the ability to logically connect things.
They're just driven by blind hate and so they thoughtlessly jump on everything they can spin as negative about the local authorities, often without realizing that their conclusions are mutually incompatible.
My hat tip goes to Terry Xu this time, as TOC reported more info from the SPH "whistleblower" about what transpired when certain executives were axed.
Congratulations Terry, this is probably the most accurate reporting you have ever done and, just look at it, it only proves what all decent people knew all along :) A few more like these and you're going to earn some PAP Badge of Honour.
Let's follow it because, ironically (thanks again Terry!) it just proves that SPH and, currently, SMT appear to be quite independent from the government.
So, the SPH "whistleblower" now revealed that SMT CEO called a town hall meeting with divisions of the company concerned with circulation figures i.e. marketing, advertising and circulation departments - probably because it was their top people who got the axe.
He briefly explained what transpired and, reportedly, asked people to "let the matter (of the dismissals) rest" - understandably concerned about the PR fallout of such revelations.
The whistleblower claims that, quote: "The CEO was said to be concerned about the matter coming to the attention of the Ministry of Communications and Information and being debated and questioned in the Singapore Parliament."
Woah, now that's some big news!
Let's get this straight, then - SMTs CEO was concerned about the response of the ministry, which clearly had no idea about the practice.
Now, tell me, if SPH/SMT were a government propaganda tube, under direction of the Ministry of Communications and Information, allegedly using public media to spew misinformation that benefits the big, bad government, why would the company's CEO be concerned?
Isn't he "their" man on the inside, tasked with making sure the government looks good?
In fact, why would he perform any internal review in the first place? Why would he get rid of the people who inflated the numbers? Why would he call a town hall with affected departments and reveal the information to his troops?
And, again, why would he be concerned with what MCI thinks if he can choose - allegedly - to tell all the lies that he wants to because, gasp!, the public media are under total control of the PAP and print whatever the ruling party wants to mislead Singaporeans? <insert evil laugh here>
If anything, the SPH affair proves that the company was independent of the government but some people on the inside inflated circulation figures likely to present themselves as more successful to their superiors than they actually were.
And the only reason we know about this is that fresh SMT management conducted an internal investigation to ensure the new entity is not burdened by anything left behind by its predecessors, as it is now about to be funded directly with taxpayers' money.
The only ridiculous thing is that some are still trying to smear the people who have done all this, even though everything that's been revealed so far disproves all that the crazed haters have been spewing for years.
