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30-07-2013, 10:30 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
What am I trying to say with all these above cases and examples?
The ongoing campaign against the online community is a waste of resources which could, should and ought to be used on other more pressing matters – such as those highlighted above. To dwell on the trivial and inconsequential, such as dirty hawker centre ceilings or one single post of “misinformation” on Facebook, and make a mountain out of these, only shows how misguided our government has become.
There are many other issues – many times more serious ones – which it ought to be focusing on.
The system is being questioned, its edges are fraying, the skeletons are falling out of the closets, legitimate questions have emerged, and there is a serious need to address these.
Instead, we have a mainstream media which prefers to engage in trivial smearing games, and ignoring all these pertinent and very important issues and concerns; and a government more interested in issuing meaningless statements and engaging in PR campaigns.
Contrary to what the likes of Kishore Mahbubani would like to have us believe, the erosion of trust in our public institutions – as anyone can see – is self-inflicted.
To point the finger at others is to be blind to what is right before one’s eyes. At the end of the day, trust in our public institutions is not based on how fervently our ministers insist that they are trustworthy. It is instead based on how open, transparent and independent the system and those who run it are.
- http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/201...-institutions/ (http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/govts-handling-of-recent-cases-erodes-trust-in-public-institutions/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?158438-Andrew-Loh-Erosion-of-trust-in-public-institutions-is-self-inflicted&goto=newpost).
What am I trying to say with all these above cases and examples?
The ongoing campaign against the online community is a waste of resources which could, should and ought to be used on other more pressing matters – such as those highlighted above. To dwell on the trivial and inconsequential, such as dirty hawker centre ceilings or one single post of “misinformation” on Facebook, and make a mountain out of these, only shows how misguided our government has become.
There are many other issues – many times more serious ones – which it ought to be focusing on.
The system is being questioned, its edges are fraying, the skeletons are falling out of the closets, legitimate questions have emerged, and there is a serious need to address these.
Instead, we have a mainstream media which prefers to engage in trivial smearing games, and ignoring all these pertinent and very important issues and concerns; and a government more interested in issuing meaningless statements and engaging in PR campaigns.
Contrary to what the likes of Kishore Mahbubani would like to have us believe, the erosion of trust in our public institutions – as anyone can see – is self-inflicted.
To point the finger at others is to be blind to what is right before one’s eyes. At the end of the day, trust in our public institutions is not based on how fervently our ministers insist that they are trustworthy. It is instead based on how open, transparent and independent the system and those who run it are.
- http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/201...-institutions/ (http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/govts-handling-of-recent-cases-erodes-trust-in-public-institutions/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?158438-Andrew-Loh-Erosion-of-trust-in-public-institutions-is-self-inflicted&goto=newpost).