The Online Citizen, 26 Jun 2012Were they real stories submitted by genuine members of the public or similar fabrications by STOMP staff? Were those STOMP staff just luckier than Ms Francis in not being caught out by a public body? After all, the majority of STOMP content consists of “members of the public” “blowing the whistle” on other members of the public behaving badly, and ordinary citizens don’t have the resources to call a bluff the way SMRT did.
The apologies by Mr Daniel and Mr Azhar do not address these questions at all. What happened in STOMP is not representative at all of genuine citizen journalism. Genuine citizen journalism does not rely on paid staff masquerading as “members of the public”.
If SPH wants to restore any modicum of credibility to STOMP, they must clear the air on how STOMP operates and state measures SPH will implement in response to this fiasco. Full story
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