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Tan Tarn How: July 2008
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And media in Singapore. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Commentary written about the Internet before the 2006 elections. It's been over two years, but I thought I should upload this commentary anyway:. Chances poor that public will take to the Net during polls. By Tan Tarn How. The Straits Times,. FIVE years ago, the Internet took a test in Singapore - and flunked miserably. But the Net failed to live up to the hype. Nomination Day came and went, then the hustings and Polling Day. Voters also interpreted the law...
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Tan Tarn How: February 2007
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And media in Singapore. Tuesday, February 06, 2007. Authenticity, Crazy Horse and the Integrated Resorts/Casinos. I have not seen the show myself, but having a troupe of half-naked women prancing about on stage is really quite incongruous with the squeaky clean image of Singapore. The result is that tourists and citizens will find the show fake, artificial and unconvincing, in a word, inauthentic. This is a very short version of an article I am writing for a magazine.). Posted by Tarn How at 4:57 AM.
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Tan Tarn How: September 2008
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And media in Singapore. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Article in Today: Bad news and two myths. Bad news and two myths. By Tan Tarn How. Have so far managed to avoid the sorry fate faced by their counterparts in the West: A dramatic decline in circulation and profits. Still, executives at both newspaper giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) as well as MediaCorp, which co-owns this paper with SPH, must be wondering how long this will last. The older generation also use the Internet, now indispensable for ...
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Tan Tarn How: August 2008
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And media in Singapore. Wednesday, August 06, 2008. Commentary on regulating speech on race and religion on the Internet. Use social immune system to fight ills of racist speech. The Straits Times, 28th September 2007. Contrast that with the case of the Bollywood starlet, Shilpa Shetty. When a racial slur was made about her by a fellow contestant in the British reality television show, Big Brother, almost the whole cross-section of society came out behind her. That she eventually won is an even m...Perha...
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Tan Tarn How: October 2005
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And media in Singapore. Tuesday, October 11, 2005. I have been thinking about some questions on the quest to become a 'Global Arts City'. 1) Can a people brought up on a pragmatic and functional world-view develop an aesthetic sense, or enough of an aesthetic for them to be creative? Can an aesthetic sense be turned on and off like a switch, or it deeply ingrained and inseparable from one's being? Can you have an aesthetic sense without an unified aesthetic outlook? And must it be unique? Tan Tarn How Too.
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Tan Tarn How: February 2010
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And media in Singapore. Monday, February 22, 2010. Comments to media on allegedly racist Facebook and Rony Tan cases Part 2. This is part two of: Thought I should post these comments, since very little of what I said was actually used, as is usual because of space constraints in the paper. Phone Interview with Mr Leong Wee Keat of. The article "Reason pastor is not arrest" published on 10 Feb is here. Q: Is community policing an ideal? Posted by Tarn How at 6:57 PM. Links to this post. Please, start by s...
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Tan Tarn How: July 2006
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And media in Singapore. Friday, July 07, 2006. On The Management of Dissent. It may be useful to examine the case of the suspension of mr brown’s column by Today. So how does this government manage dissent? There are at least three principles which it has consistently used over the last few decades, and which are applicable in the mr brown case:. 1) Concentrate the attack on centres of power and influence. 2) Guard the mainstream, but tolerate the fringe. Posted by Tarn How at 2:35 AM. Links to this post.
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Tan Tarn How: September 2007
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And media in Singapore. Thursday, September 27, 2007. Authenticity, Crazy Horse and the Integrated Resorts/Casinos II. This is the full article which appeared in Lexean magazine earlier this year and which I wrote about in the previous post. I cite Bangkok not to argue that Singapore should become one. Far from it. But Crazy Horse sits well in Paris and Las Vegas, and it worth thinking what makes the show authentic there, but not here. Probably squeaky clean is out, and definitely moralistic squeaky is n...
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Tan Tarn How: April 2010
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And media in Singapore. Tuesday, April 06, 2010. What is an internet election. When someone says that the coming election (for instance the next Singapore general election) will be an Internet election, what does it mean? No point reinventing the wheel, so this is a UK perspective from the website. Tagline: UK political and parliamentary news, interviews, analysis, comment, blogs and podcasts.). The article is here:. Will 2010 really be an internet election? 1) What is an internet election? How much traf...
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