Why is TODAYonline front page different from print?

• macjoe

  22 Oct 05, 09:10

  
  Yesterday's Friday 21 Oct, paper version is different than online version.
  
  Is this commonly practised?
  
  
• Cindyfeh

  22 Oct 05, 09:13

  by putting this topic in a political forum, are you saying that your observation is politically driven?
• dragg

  22 Oct 05, 10:04

  i noticed it too.
  
  yesterday's printed front page is something about the public sector not doing enough in employing older workers.
  
  but the online version is totally different.
  
  
• Mr Soh

  22 Oct 05, 15:20

  A no brainer, when u go online, u have the fear of foreign media getting to know the information as the internet is global. So the online version need to change abit. understand?
• dragg

  22 Oct 05, 15:47

  Originally posted by Mr Soh:

  A no brainer, when u go online, u have the fear of foreign media getting to know the information as the internet is global. So the online version need to change abit. understand?

  cant foreigners get the hard copy?
  
  
• macjoe

  22 Oct 05, 22:29

  Originally posted by Cindyfeh:

  by putting this topic in a political forum, are you saying that your observation is politically driven?

  is my observation and putting it in this forum a problem or the discrepancy observed?
  
  
  
  
• robertteh

  22 Oct 05, 23:47

  If Today is to become the newspaper that is widely read by Singaporeans, it will have to be independent of government. However it shares the same parentood as SPH so it is unlikely to be an independent newspaper. In order not to hurt Straits Times readership I foresee SPH will influence Today not to go beyond a certain limit in its independence in presentations of news and views.
  
  I have sent a critical letter once and it was not published. Subsequently I toned down and it was published.
  
  Truthful and objective opinions about sea platform will not be published as posted in this forum. I doubt Today will publish them?
  
  Government has controlled freedoms of expressions to the extent that no one not even Today will ever publish anything that may dent the authority of the government.
  
  For example, all the news published about NKF were very mild with ministers showing good posture in controlling the issues when the real fact is NKF might be just a tip of the iceberg or hidden policy excesses like unnecessarily high salaries of chosen people and big reserve. This kind of truth were avoided in our newspapers. The postings about 20 major policy errors will never be published.
• Lowclassman

  24 Oct 05, 01:20

  Originally posted by robertteh:

  If Today is to become the newspaper that is widely read by Singaporeans, it will have to be independent of government. However it shares the same parentood as SPH so it is unlikely to be an independent newspaper. In order not to hurt Straits Times readership I foresee SPH will influence Today not to go beyond a certain limit in its independence in presentations of news and views.
  
  I have sent a critical letter once and it was not published. Subsequently I toned down and it was published.
  
  Truthful and objective opinions about sea platform will not be published as posted in this forum. I doubt Today will publish them?
  
  Government has controlled freedoms of expressions to the extent that no one not even Today will ever publish anything that may dent the authority of the government.
  
  For example, all the news published about NKF were very mild with ministers showing good posture in controlling the issues when the real fact is NKF might be just a tip of the iceberg or hidden policy excesses like unnecessarily high salaries of chosen people and big reserve. This kind of truth were avoided in our newspapers. The postings about 20 major policy errors will never be published.

  You are right~! Are censorship is worldclass. This I won't denied.
• Arena

  26 Oct 05, 11:01

  i dun really notice it btw
• WiNtEr'SkiLL

  26 Oct 05, 11:07

  how different