Skewed

Below is an email exchange by a fellow netizen called Desmond Yen and S Ramesh of ChannelNewsAsia. I couldn't help chuckling to myself.


-----Original Message-----
From: Desmond Yen
Sent: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:23:09 +0800
To: sramesh@channelnewsasia.com
Cc:
Subject: PAP Propoganda

Dear Mr Ramesh:

Your story tonight was basically an advertisement for the PAP. I have
several questions about your coverage:

- Why should opposition parties announce their new candidates according to the schedule the PAP wants?
- Why didn't you get an opposition party point of view? Isn't fairness and
balance the hallmarks of good journalism?
- Why don't you ask some voters how important it is to have opposition
candidates to give them a choice in their district?
- Why don't you instead ask the PAP why it hasn't determined the election date, keeping all of the voters in the dark, and preventing any meaningful planning by the opposition?

Finally, why should you even echo the complaints of the PAP, when your news
organisation -- and you in particular -- won't even cover the opposition
candidates with any sense of fairness?

Regards,

Desmond Yen

On 5/10/06, S Ramesh wrote:
Dear Mr Yen,

Hope you are keeping well and I hope you enjoyed the news coverage of the general elections.

Long Live the PAP!

Ramesh