It all started with an apparent misquote - Ms Agnes Lin, a 20-year-old undergraduate, accused ST journalist Nur Dianah Suhaimi of twisting her words and portraying her as a money-sucking daughter of middle income parents.But the clincher was this: Ms Lin thought it “silly” that her friend would not ask her parents for money. Ms Lin, of course, vehemently denied this in her blog, saying that she told the journalist no such thing.
When bloggers heard about this incident, most of them were outraged. They poured scorn on the state-owned paper, and some criticised its links with the PAP despite the incident merely being an issue of journalistic ethics.
One common grouse that many netizens have against ST is this: the Agnes Lin incident has not been the first, and it seems that neither will it be the last. But even as bloggers “group hug” and share horror stories over their own experiences with misquotes, journalists themselves are not having it easy...
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