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The Media Enthralled: Singapore Revisited

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Once a proud and independent institution, the Singapore press was brought to its knees by threats, arbitrary arrests and detentions, general harassment and litigation during Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s administrarion. Singapore’s former solicitor general, Francis T. Seow tells this story, documenting the demise of the Eastern Sun, the Nanyang Siang Pau and the Singapore Herald (among other news publications), as well as the severe curbs placed on foreign journalists reporting on Singapore. By the early 1980’s, Singapore’s entire press establishment had been restructured; with founding owners forced to diverse their holdings of newspaper companies. Since then, as Seow substantives the press has become the mouthpiece of the state, using invidious self-censorship to distort the news.

 

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Once a proud and independent institution, the Singapore press was brought to its knees by threats, arbitrary arrests and detentions, general harassment and litigation during Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s administrarion. Singapore’s former solicitor general, Francis T. Seow tells this story, documenting the demise of the Eastern Sun, the Nanyang Siang Pau and the Singapore Herald (among other news publications), as well as the severe curbs placed on foreign journalists reporting on Singapore. By the early 1980’s, Singapore’s entire press establishment had been restructured; with founding owners forced to diverse their holdings of newspaper companies. Since then, as Seow substantives the press has become the mouthpiece of the state, using invidious self-censorship to distort the news.

 

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Paperback

1998

ISBN10: 1555877796

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