Cycling event .. .soon forgetton

Singaporeans have short memory, especially in the blogsphere

After mr brown and the online citizen (two of the most widely read blogs) have shown clearly the alleged double standard the PAP has practiced by not allowing Worker Party to organize a cycling event while the Young PAP had done so in the past, nothing really happen in the last few days.

The mainstream media such as The Straits Times, Today, New Paper, Lianho Zaobao refused to chase the story why the Young PAP took these cycling events down from the websites very shortly (2-3 days later- what a coincidence!) after the rejection of the Worker's party application, and so nothing much really happen.

Now the current hot issue is the Mr Otto Fong being asked by his employer to take down his blog which has an open letter stating he is gay, and lots of blogs have articles on the incident. Is anyone else still blogging on the apparent double standards of the PAP with regards to the rejection of the Worker Party application?

It will be fair to estimate that the socio-political articles are followed regularly (once a week) by a very small percentage of Singaporean (<0.25%-2% / 10,000-80,000), and even this small percentage doesn't really take actions to the larger community. The most efforts these readers take is to leave both intelligent and random comments on these articles.

Nothing wrong with writing about all these events that happen and then nothing much happen, but this just shows the mainstream media still play a very big role in influencing Singaporeans. The blogsphere seems to have limited ability to compel the government to answer to some of their actions, unless the mainstream media decides to pursue the news.