Notes From the Far East

To say that Mediacorp and Singapore does not possess any talent is totally incorrect. It needs to be seen in the likes of a fledgling company with ambition trying to wrestle into the regional media space.   Many of the programmes aired are of good quality and the talen pool undertakes programming and acting well.  However Mediacorp does suffer from negative perception of being boring and the mouth piece of "G" and thus the regular "joe or jane" consumer would be immediately turned-off when a foreign production is screened at the same time slot.  Programmes that take a dig at the G policies or agnostic of G policies do better. Programmes that have a repeat nationalistic theme of civility and social cohesiveness needs a new look as these seemed recycled and overused with no new angle and the predictability that comes with the particular programme.  Consumers sense a underlining G message that is not that sublime and those that watch these programme...

  Anyone with a computer and access to the internet, a messaging system would use it to look for information as it is  convenient and expedience to do so and in the process transmit messages that may result in strong emotive responses.  Anecdotal evidence suggests that the tendency is to believe such content due to the convincing arguments or the factual way an argument was presented.  The veracity of the information cannot easily ascertain and due to human nature retain the first exposure to be factual until a contradiction comes along.   Where the content is repeated often enough it would be deemed to be authoritive in nature.  Those uninitiated  would fall prey to scams and misinformation from time to time.    Past personal experience is often cited along with maturity of age as capabilities in discerning misinformation and whether the content is right and wrong.    Since no one has all-encompassing and absolute ade...