[BreakingNews] Cabby earns $7,000 a month
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Originally posted by OptimalTrans:
is this one..........
In "The FlipSide", local blogger Belmont Lay lets loose on local politics, culture and society. To be taken with a pinch of salt. Parental permission is advised. In this post, he talks about the recent media storm over the S$7,000-a-month cabby.
The recent news that taxi drivers are capable of earning big bucks has not gone down well with Singaporeans.
It was reported by The Sunday Times on Oct. 28 that two cabbies, Muhammad Hasnor Hashim and Mark Leow, both 32, earned S$7,000 and S$6,000 a month respectively as taxi drivers.
While Leow was spared most of the backlash, Muhammad has borne the brunt of it.
What followed was not surprising: cynicism and backlash from an incredulous public. (Since then,both the cabbie and the reporter have explained their side of the story)
And there are at least five good reasons why such news is bad for everyone.
1. Fairy tales are different from good news
First and foremost, the S$7k-a-month cabbie news is essentially a fairy tale. It is about an one-off occurrence, but wasn't presented as such. And fairy tales aren't the same as good news.
While good news is verifiable with data, fairy tales are based on word-of-mouth -- which is what it is in this case -- and paints an overly rosy picture of life in Singapore.
While good news is supposed to make everyone feel better, fairy tales tend to only make reporters look bad and their editors look worse.
How?
2.Shoddy reporting
The basic fact is that the news story was written from a poor angle that disregarded the wider facts and statistics of how much cabbies really earned.
True, people want to read good news once in a while for a kick. But they don't want to feel like an idiot reading it. Especially one written with a pitiful lack of hard data.
Ultimately, what can be gleaned is the dubious underlying message that anyone can make it given a bit of hard work.
And nobody likes to be told that they are less well-off simply because they are not hardworking enough.
Not because it is misleading. But because it is simply not true.
So where does this lead us?
3. Readers' intelligence taken for granted
With a simple back-of-the-hand calculation, any reader can dismiss the claim that Muhammad Hasnor Hashim makes "an average of $7,000 a month working Mondays to Saturdays".
This very fact already takes for granted the intelligence of readers. Worse, it makes them cynical and suspicious.
And what does it show? It shows shoddy work on the part of the reporter. Someone who gives short shrift to mathematics. And ignores common sense.
Because what is the ulterior motive of telling me something so unbelievable? What is the point of this story?
Is it supposed to make people jealous? Why am I presented a topsy-turvy view of Singapore?
4. Image of drivers tarnished
The larger implications can be felt almost immediately: the image of taxi drivers is tarnished as it trivialises the work done by them.
This point requires a bit of explaining. From the readers' perspective, what are they supposed to imagine and believe?
That cabbies no doubt work hard driving around a lot but, hey, they are capable of earning so much more than white-collar professionals, so it shouldn't be so bad?
Well, that's absolute rubbish.
Cab drivers have it brutally bad. Next time you board a cab, talk to the driver.
With more than 20,000 cabs plying the road on any given day, they are fighting for scraps all the time.
And who makes up the bulk of them? The old, the unhealthy and those who should be retired but cannot because they have a housing loan to pay or kids to send to school.
5. Takes spotlight off taxi operators
The focus then should be on how much profits taxi operators, such as ComfortDelGro, derive from the blood, sweat and tears of taxi drivers.
A much more interesting question a newspaper should be asking is what market forces are at work to determine the rental rate for taxis daily.
If COE and housing prices can fluctuate, why not taxi rental rates?
Where are the statistics? Where are the spokespersons from the various transport operators?
Think about it: if taxi rental is S$100 a day, that's $2 million worth of rental collected per day by taxi operators from at least 20,000 taxis.
That's $60 million a month and that sounds like a really interesting news story.
Silver lining?
The silver lining from this case is that readers overall score much higher in media literacy than perhaps what the government gives them credit for.
Following the publication of the $7k-a-month taxi driver, people have snorted, cast doubts and done their own homework.
Because deep down inside, people do know if anything is too good to be true, it usually is.
And the last thing they want to read is a fairy tale. In a newspaper.
This Belmont Lay really spoke our thoughts thru n thru, is he a cabbie or have family who are cabbies? Anyway his blog should be made sticky n highlighted for those non cabbies to digest. Another interesting pt to stir is pt 2 & 3, this is wat u get when u employ foreigners to do a local's job (reporter). Most foreigners are simply not deep rooted enough to understand our culture n do things their way. I buy ST for news worthy material to read not some juicy stories. If I'm interested in juicy news, I'll buy WanBao ;) Since the four cabbies are sacked, how abt the journalist n editor?? I feel they did ST a great disservice by not reporting factual and misleading headline. Heads gotta roll...... -
Originally posted by Happybird95:
This Belmont Lay really spoke our thoughts thru n thru, is he a cabbie or have family who are cabbies? Anyway his blog should be made sticky n highlighted for those non cabbies to digest. Another interesting pt to stir is pt 2 & 3, this is wat u get when u employ foreigners to do a local's job (reporter). Most foreigners are simply not deep rooted enough to understand our culture n do things their way. I buy ST for news worthy material to read not some juicy stories. If I'm interested in juicy news, I'll buy WanBao ;) Since the four cabbies are sacked, how abt the journalist n editor?? I feel they did ST a great disservice by not reporting factual and misleading headline. Heads gotta roll......this is the type of angle, the deeper understanding of SPH article that in my wish people would look into.
only then after, there is hope for a change in 2016.
the media had been a very powerful tool to lead, direct and influence people. if this tool is still widely acceptable........... there won't be a chance.
got to thanks the FT reporter for surfacing their untrustworthiness, hope more will appear as reminder of their rubbish.
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Oh likewise in the SG banking ind, the more of these cockup practices happening, the more advertising to blow their own trumpet look at the Leeman Bro bonds sales tactics.. the ATM false withdrawals. How a RM mis-sell endowment.. Bankers of investment products got sharper knife!
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As long he keep quiet.........
Everything will die off soon..........
Young bunk don't know Singapore Style meh?........or only Gan Ni Na Style.... ....
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Originally posted by 1888:Oh likewise in the SG banking ind, the more of these cockup practices happening, the more advertising to blow their own trumpet…look at the Leeman Bro bonds sales tactics.. the ATM false withdrawals.. How a RM mis-sell endowment.. Bankers of investment products got sharper knife!
Bankers are all ponzi trained, buy, sell, use other people money to own benefit, they are actually nothing, just that because they are educated in this areas, specialise in it, so they know the in and out of it. All things, if you keep doing it, sooner or later you will master it, if not kick your own ass.Like taxi driver, after a while, you know the in and out of it. So do not take them highly, they are there to bank your ass only. You buy, they gain fees, you sell, they gain fees, then got good lobang, they use your money to buy themselves, if win, they put back your money with the usual interest, if lost, they go take other funds to cover up, cover here and cover there, flow here and there, money become like liquid to them. Welcome to Ponzi scheme
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Originally posted by Happybird95:
This Belmont Lay really spoke our thoughts thru n thru, is he a cabbie or have family who are cabbies? Anyway his blog should be made sticky n highlighted for those non cabbies to digest. Another interesting pt to stir is pt 2 & 3, this is wat u get when u employ foreigners to do a local's job (reporter). Most foreigners are simply not deep rooted enough to understand our culture n do things their way. I buy ST for news worthy material to read not some juicy stories. If I'm interested in juicy news, I'll buy WanBao ;) Since the four cabbies are sacked, how abt the journalist n editor?? I feel they did ST a great disservice by not reporting factual and misleading headline. Heads gotta roll......
I only use ST newspaper to clean my casket van windows -
Ya remember Mahathir also admitted he used EPF to fight G .Soro when Rm almost gone to USD=5 MYR and he freezes it @3.80..on the other hand, our CPF kena lock till u r 65 KNN what u call this ? After all the hard work contribution for the past 40+ years true blue SingaPOORean
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i'm not that old till require large font to read
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OK let me adjust font size on my hp..hehe
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Earlier in the morning , Khoon said this melayu were interview by radio ...
He said his shit (8 hours) can earned $5000 anytime ....
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Originally posted by Poolman:
Earlier in the morning , Khoon said this melayu were interview by radio ...
He said his shit (8 hours) can earned $5000 anytime ....
Ya this CB mat haven't repent. Morning got LV member says 913 fm got interview. Still brag when the DJ ask him if not $7K the how much can earn? Minus all overhead, nett. He still says bila bila $4-5K...CCB....
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members , go where now dun tell people u taxi uncle cos like FT , he bought paint to pain his room cost 20% more than usual cos he taxi.driver .
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two weeks ago mixed vegie rice same dish $3.50 , now shop charge me $3.70 , cos they think i ho tan drive tesi ... . 7k leh , what is $0.20 ?
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lucky silvercabbies no need wear uniform . . no people know .
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election coming soon?
now like smlj job oso hor tan....
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Government is telling us ....
Losing your jobs soon ? Akan datang ?
No worries .......got taxi .
U huat for taxi companies .....
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My analysis .... about the radio thing .
Say $5000 take home .
Base on Silver cab .
I driving one .
Not much calls , except Sungei Gedong , and Vivo city ....... and some kuching kurak calls .... low quality type , Grade B type .
$5000 divide by 30 days ... per day need $166 .
To get $166 , plus rental $100 .
Collection $266 ...... $266 of collection , diesel need at least 400km ....
400km x $1.18 of Premier rate disount diesels .
$47.20 .
Total collection : $313 .
That's everyday for just 8 hours ?
Per hour collection $39 ? swee swee $39 ? Singapore only 5000 taxis maybe can , hello it's $26,900 taxis in Singapore .
If like that Khoon and redxxx need to do split ?
Even a Comfort abundance of calls also dun dare sat one hour swee swee $39 .
Saturday morning one hour $39 swee swee ?
Sunday morning one hour everyday Sunday $39 ?
talk cock lah ...... fundamentally on theory yes ... just $39 , wo bo ?
Somemore Sunday off .... knn when this melayu ever learn ?
Two months on the job and can summarise taxi business like that ?
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Why is xxxvideo actress Tammy from Nanyang Poly ?
Run road ?
Then this Melayu better call Tammy and ask where she go ?
Sooner or later he need to run road as well .....
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Originally posted by Mvp30sg:
No doubt this Hashim is a stupid idiot, but this stupid reporter Maria Almenoar brainless??!
And front page news no need editor to approve one izzit??!
The editor-in-charge jiak sai one har?
When that Amy Cheong passed a stupid remark on her FB causes her career, so should
this Maria Almenoar deserve the same treatment? She should be sacked too unless she's being instructed
to write the report in this manner from someone/ somewhere.
Don't you all agree?
Maria Almenoar desrves worse from Amy Cheong. Amy Chong posted on Face Book. Maria Almenor uses Sunday Times! as her face book.
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these days reporters dun bother to check their facts before publishing. but hey her editor approves her report, so goes to show reporter these days, when facing deadlines to submit, dun bother and no time to check.
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Originally posted by 1888:
Oh likewise in the SG banking ind, the more of these cockup practices happening, the more advertising to blow their own trumpet look at the Leeman Bro bonds sales tactics.. the ATM false withdrawals. How a RM mis-sell endowment..
Bankers of investment products got sharper knife!Sharpen your knives elswhere. Trying to sharpen your knives against Taxi Drivers is sucidal because Taxi Drivers are already mad! Since they are mad, they are easy targets and that mat is one.Blame should be on the reporter.
In Leeman case, are you one of the reportors for Singapore, to support this case?
People invested based on reports from Sunday Times and Straits Times. People lost their money. This already shows we cannot trust Sunday Times and Straits Timers. Correct?
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Originally posted by OptimalTrans:
is this one..........
In "The FlipSide", local blogger Belmont Lay lets loose on local politics, culture and society. To be taken with a pinch of salt. Parental permission is advised. In this post, he talks about the recent media storm over the S$7,000-a-month cabby.
The recent news that taxi drivers are capable of earning big bucks has not gone down well with Singaporeans.
It was reported by The Sunday Times on Oct. 28 that two cabbies, Muhammad Hasnor Hashim and Mark Leow, both 32, earned S$7,000 and S$6,000 a month respectively as taxi drivers.
While Leow was spared most of the backlash, Muhammad has borne the brunt of it.
What followed was not surprising: cynicism and backlash from an incredulous public. (Since then,both the cabbie and the reporter have explained their side of the story)
And there are at least five good reasons why such news is bad for everyone.
1. Fairy tales are different from good news
First and foremost, the S$7k-a-month cabbie news is essentially a fairy tale. It is about an one-off occurrence, but wasn't presented as such. And fairy tales aren't the same as good news.
While good news is verifiable with data, fairy tales are based on word-of-mouth -- which is what it is in this case -- and paints an overly rosy picture of life in Singapore.
While good news is supposed to make everyone feel better, fairy tales tend to only make reporters look bad and their editors look worse.
How?
2.Shoddy reporting
The basic fact is that the news story was written from a poor angle that disregarded the wider facts and statistics of how much cabbies really earned.
True, people want to read good news once in a while for a kick. But they don't want to feel like an idiot reading it. Especially one written with a pitiful lack of hard data.
Ultimately, what can be gleaned is the dubious underlying message that anyone can make it given a bit of hard work.
And nobody likes to be told that they are less well-off simply because they are not hardworking enough.
Not because it is misleading. But because it is simply not true.
So where does this lead us?
3. Readers' intelligence taken for granted
With a simple back-of-the-hand calculation, any reader can dismiss the claim that Muhammad Hasnor Hashim makes "an average of $7,000 a month working Mondays to Saturdays".
This very fact already takes for granted the intelligence of readers. Worse, it makes them cynical and suspicious.
And what does it show? It shows shoddy work on the part of the reporter. Someone who gives short shrift to mathematics. And ignores common sense.
Because what is the ulterior motive of telling me something so unbelievable? What is the point of this story?
Is it supposed to make people jealous? Why am I presented a topsy-turvy view of Singapore?
4. Image of drivers tarnished
The larger implications can be felt almost immediately: the image of taxi drivers is tarnished as it trivialises the work done by them.
This point requires a bit of explaining. From the readers' perspective, what are they supposed to imagine and believe?
That cabbies no doubt work hard driving around a lot but, hey, they are capable of earning so much more than white-collar professionals, so it shouldn't be so bad?
Well, that's absolute rubbish.
Cab drivers have it brutally bad. Next time you board a cab, talk to the driver.
With more than 20,000 cabs plying the road on any given day, they are fighting for scraps all the time.
And who makes up the bulk of them? The old, the unhealthy and those who should be retired but cannot because they have a housing loan to pay or kids to send to school.
5. Takes spotlight off taxi operators
The focus then should be on how much profits taxi operators, such as ComfortDelGro, derive from the blood, sweat and tears of taxi drivers.
A much more interesting question a newspaper should be asking is what market forces are at work to determine the rental rate for taxis daily.
If COE and housing prices can fluctuate, why not taxi rental rates?
Where are the statistics? Where are the spokespersons from the various transport operators?
Think about it: if taxi rental is S$100 a day, that's $2 million worth of rental collected per day by taxi operators from at least 20,000 taxis.
That's $60 million a month and that sounds like a really interesting news story.
Silver lining?
The silver lining from this case is that readers overall score much higher in media literacy than perhaps what the government gives them credit for.
Following the publication of the $7k-a-month taxi driver, people have snorted, cast doubts and done their own homework.
Because deep down inside, people do know if anything is too good to be true, it usually is.
And the last thing they want to read is a fairy tale. In a newspaper.
This is what happens when maids become reporters.
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Originally posted by OptimalTrans:
is this one..........
In "The FlipSide", local blogger Belmont Lay lets loose on local politics, culture and society. To be taken with a pinch of salt. Parental permission is advised. In this post, he talks about the recent media storm over the S$7,000-a-month cabby.
The recent news that taxi drivers are capable of earning big bucks has not gone down well with Singaporeans.
It was reported by The Sunday Times on Oct. 28 that two cabbies, Muhammad Hasnor Hashim and Mark Leow, both 32, earned S$7,000 and S$6,000 a month respectively as taxi drivers.
While Leow was spared most of the backlash, Muhammad has borne the brunt of it.
What followed was not surprising: cynicism and backlash from an incredulous public. (Since then,both the cabbie and the reporter have explained their side of the story)
And there are at least five good reasons why such news is bad for everyone.
1. Fairy tales are different from good news
First and foremost, the S$7k-a-month cabbie news is essentially a fairy tale. It is about an one-off occurrence, but wasn't presented as such. And fairy tales aren't the same as good news.
While good news is verifiable with data, fairy tales are based on word-of-mouth -- which is what it is in this case -- and paints an overly rosy picture of life in Singapore.
While good news is supposed to make everyone feel better, fairy tales tend to only make reporters look bad and their editors look worse.
How?
2.Shoddy reporting
The basic fact is that the news story was written from a poor angle that disregarded the wider facts and statistics of how much cabbies really earned.
True, people want to read good news once in a while for a kick. But they don't want to feel like an idiot reading it. Especially one written with a pitiful lack of hard data.
Ultimately, what can be gleaned is the dubious underlying message that anyone can make it given a bit of hard work.
And nobody likes to be told that they are less well-off simply because they are not hardworking enough.
Not because it is misleading. But because it is simply not true.
So where does this lead us?
3. Readers' intelligence taken for granted
With a simple back-of-the-hand calculation, any reader can dismiss the claim that Muhammad Hasnor Hashim makes "an average of $7,000 a month working Mondays to Saturdays".
This very fact already takes for granted the intelligence of readers. Worse, it makes them cynical and suspicious.
And what does it show? It shows shoddy work on the part of the reporter. Someone who gives short shrift to mathematics. And ignores common sense.
Because what is the ulterior motive of telling me something so unbelievable? What is the point of this story?
Is it supposed to make people jealous? Why am I presented a topsy-turvy view of Singapore?
4. Image of drivers tarnished
The larger implications can be felt almost immediately: the image of taxi drivers is tarnished as it trivialises the work done by them.
This point requires a bit of explaining. From the readers' perspective, what are they supposed to imagine and believe?
That cabbies no doubt work hard driving around a lot but, hey, they are capable of earning so much more than white-collar professionals, so it shouldn't be so bad?
Well, that's absolute rubbish.
Cab drivers have it brutally bad. Next time you board a cab, talk to the driver.
With more than 20,000 cabs plying the road on any given day, they are fighting for scraps all the time.
And who makes up the bulk of them? The old, the unhealthy and those who should be retired but cannot because they have a housing loan to pay or kids to send to school.
5. Takes spotlight off taxi operators
The focus then should be on how much profits taxi operators, such as ComfortDelGro, derive from the blood, sweat and tears of taxi drivers.
A much more interesting question a newspaper should be asking is what market forces are at work to determine the rental rate for taxis daily.
If COE and housing prices can fluctuate, why not taxi rental rates?
Where are the statistics? Where are the spokespersons from the various transport operators?
Think about it: if taxi rental is S$100 a day, that's $2 million worth of rental collected per day by taxi operators from at least 20,000 taxis.
That's $60 million a month and that sounds like a really interesting news story.
Silver lining?
The silver lining from this case is that readers overall score much higher in media literacy than perhaps what the government gives them credit for.
Following the publication of the $7k-a-month taxi driver, people have snorted, cast doubts and done their own homework.
Because deep down inside, people do know if anything is too good to be true, it usually is.
And the last thing they want to read is a fairy tale. In a newspaper.
Support his points. Thus repeating.