My Tax Dollars ... Wasted at MICA.
Tomorrow.sg featured a stupid reply from MICA regarding an article published last friday by the infamous blogger Mr. Brown for TODAY . Click on the links to read about it.
As a reply from the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, one really can't see the communication element, the information element and lastly the artistic element in handling adverse public opinion. So much for progress...
A lot of comments have been made at Tomorrow and at Mr. Brown's Website already but there are 2 that i have to reiterate to express my strong discontent on this issue.
First.
Quote from MICA's letter : "As for means testing for special school fees, we understand mr brown's disappointment as the father of an autistic child. However, with means testing, we can devote more resources to families who need more help."
Although read in context with the whole paragraph, one cannot really construe the underlined sentence as a veiled personal attack. But as an authority, they should have better sense than to use sensitive words as such. Makes one wonder if anyone from the MICA vetted Ms. K Bhavani's letter before sending for publication. Of course it is likely the top echelon really did approve of the reply... hmm...
Second.
One can safely assume that Today received numerous replys and feedbacks on this issue... But there was no mention at all in any of the morning papers till date. Self-censorship or the invisible hand ? Someone behind the invisible hand couldn't possibly have thought that by whitewashing this issue, ordinary people would develop amnesia ??
Seriously???
As a reply from the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, one really can't see the communication element, the information element and lastly the artistic element in handling adverse public opinion. So much for progress...
A lot of comments have been made at Tomorrow and at Mr. Brown's Website already but there are 2 that i have to reiterate to express my strong discontent on this issue.
First.
Quote from MICA's letter : "As for means testing for special school fees, we understand mr brown's disappointment as the father of an autistic child. However, with means testing, we can devote more resources to families who need more help."
Although read in context with the whole paragraph, one cannot really construe the underlined sentence as a veiled personal attack. But as an authority, they should have better sense than to use sensitive words as such. Makes one wonder if anyone from the MICA vetted Ms. K Bhavani's letter before sending for publication. Of course it is likely the top echelon really did approve of the reply... hmm...
Second.
One can safely assume that Today received numerous replys and feedbacks on this issue... But there was no mention at all in any of the morning papers till date. Self-censorship or the invisible hand ? Someone behind the invisible hand couldn't possibly have thought that by whitewashing this issue, ordinary people would develop amnesia ??
Seriously???
posted by 逍遥老头 at 2:16 PM
1 Comments:
when smthg goes wrong. everybody wans it to be forgotten.
i agree on ur first point. there is realli no need to point to faith at all in e reply.
sg is conflicted lar. haha.
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