Minister Shan recently outed a M’sian Indian based outside KL proper, as the star writer of Terry’s Online Channel. Until then, based on her name, I tot she was an India-based Indian. TOC: A lot of bull. Btw, seems another writer with Indian-sounding name is also M’sian.
Hello? Hello? Other than Terry, any S’poreans writing for TOC?
Whatever
The “T” in FT can stand for “Talent” not “Trash” who beat up S’poreans if TOC is to be believed. Don’t listen to the foreigners who write for TOC: TOC: A lot of bull.
At least FTs work here and pay GST and other taxes. Terry’s team work overseas. And TOC and its cybernut readers criticise the PAP govt for allowing in FTs?
Waz really funny is that Terry once upon a time upset Philemon Ravi by calling TISG “a bunch of Indians”. P Ravi was then the editor of TISG, a publication better known as “The Idiots, S’pore”. P Ravi must be chuckling that Terry’s star writers are Indians.
Whatever, P Ravi now knows that Terry is no racist, and we, that he like PAP: want cheap labour.
Seriously, waz really black comedy at its blackest and funniest is him using foreigners when he KPKBs about govt’s FT policy and how it hurts S’poreans. At least FTs pay taxes and rent, and spends money here benefiting the economy. His foreign writers spend Terry’s money overseas.
A pro-PAP site put it this way
“Let us be clear: there’s nothing wrong with hiring Malaysian or foreign writers to write critically about Singapore. If they wanna write about how S’poreans are arrogant, we’ll wholeheartedly support that…What’s not right is when you dish out xenophobic articles criticising foreigners working in S’pore but in the same breath hire foreigners.”
SMRT Feedback
(Btw, Idiots S’pore also use foreigner I’m told. TRE doesn’t. TeamTRE is headed by a S’porean based in China. They slog for a bunch of ingrate readers not willing to fund them, and who always KPKBing for bad service, but always coming back because free lor.)
I’ll be fair and let Terry or rather a TOC writer (S’porean?) have the penultimate word:
Responding to Mr Shanmugam’s fiery statement, Terry asserts that all articles published on TOC are directed and subsequently approved by him as the Chief Editor.
“Nothing goes unvetted by me, a Singaporean who has served his national service and held responsible by the Ministry of Communication and Information as the registered person in charge,” said Terry.
“If one is to observe the series of Facebook posts and now, the Law Minister comments, one can easily come to a conclusion that there is a collaborated campaign to discredit TOC.”
He then went on to address the debate on hiring foreign persons, saying, “To the best of my recollection, there is no law against hiring person of foreign nationality and TOC has not used nor received any foreign funding. So what is the Law Minister barking about?”
TOC’s Kathleen F (Another M’sian-based M’sian Indian writer?)
Sorry TOC, SMRT Feedback is right, “What’s not right is when you dish out xenophobic articles criticising foreigners working in S’pore but in the same breath hire foreigners.”
Look at the group photo here (See who attended TOC’s do) and wonder who else are hypocrites.
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