[JustSayNoToNannies]

Two companies, Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) and MediaCorp, own all general circulation newspapers [TEXT OMITTED BY WIDEAWAKE:] MediaCorp is wholly owned by the government investment company.

So two companies own the print media for a market of 5 million. In the US, it's more like four for 300 million people.

What a dishonest omission. For shame. Since you're willing to lie by omission to defend Singapore, I'm done here.

[freeandfreezing]

Wideawake is probably either the ambassador from Singapore or is located there and has his postings scanned by the government of Singapore. I suspect that it is frowned upon to criticize the government of Singapore, if not illegal, so don’t worry about his cheerleading, it may be just for the censors reading his posts.

[wideawake]

"Lie by omission"? Please. Quite a bit of handwringing here.

I don't see any meaningful difference between a Singaporean newspaper being officially owned by the Republic of Singapore and the New York Times being unofficially owned by the Democratic Party.

Very few people agonize over the UK government owning the BBC.

Should the government own the media? Of course not.

Do they own the media in the UK and Singapore? In large part, yes.

Do they own the media, in large part, in the US? They sure do, whenever a Democrat is in office.