I am being a lazy slug today. I should be out and about, but for some reason I just don’t feel like it. So I sat in Starbucks and read the Straits Times from back to front. If they printed as much news as they did advertisements it would be a good newspaper. I used to get it via e-mail then they had the effrontry to start charging for it…….GRRR!
Anyway……..
They have a two page series of articles about Australia’s drug problem. This came the day after a large arrest of foreigners involved in drugs. After the row between the two countries over the execution of Nguyen Tuong Van this month , it makes wonder if there is more than journalist curiosity at work here.
Its not the series, its the way it is presented. ” Haven for Druggies and taxpayers pay for it. They can shoot heroin here, needles provided” You are then directed into the paper to read about it. It also takes you to a letter from an Austrailian telling the Prime Minister of Singapore that Singapores drug penalties are right on the mark.
I know papers have to attract readers, but this smacks of a campaign to show something else. Obviously one is supposed to draw the conclusion that Singapore is better off than Australia…….
Makes you go hmm…….who is driving the bus on these stories, the paper or someone else?
You can see the article at the Straits Times web site, but you have to have a password.
