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Check - evening paper’s headline: MC去世 高调庆生 阿姐被轰冷酷
This is a typical style of entertainment news reporting – the reporter first scanned the internet for a comment with an ‘explosive’ angle (even if it was just one single comment). He or she then constructed the story around it with more comments from elsewhere (sometimes may even call up people and ‘shaping’ their comments to fit the story).
Because it is clearly stated that the comments were coming from someone else, the reporter ‘redeemed’ himself/herself and avoided any possible legal action that the accused might bring upon the article.
This style of reporting is the most commonly used method in the entertainment industry. It is especially rampant in Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere and they have gotten worst with private photos of stars and 'stories' created to go with those angles. Readers love negative stories like this kind.
Zoe Tay was accused of celebrating her birthday at around the same time MC King held his wake. The photo of a happy Zoe at a birthday party next to a photo taken at MC King’s funeral wake…imagine the dramatic contrast…and your perception of Zoe in that context…
Even though a senior journalist from the same paper who attended Zoe’s party tried to justify Zoe's decision to carry on with the celebration (it was an event organized by MediaCorp’s magazines and radio station which was publicized earlier and involving a number of sponsors and audience turning up so it would be professionally bad to cancel it) in her tiny column, the damage was done. The headline ‘drew blood at the heart’ and no amount of ‘blood transfusion’ in any other sub-stories could undo the damage.
A star could suffer as a result when one single negative comment out of a million of good ones (not reported as usual) got blown up and many times 'out of proportion' in all techni-colors. How many big stars do we have in this tiny Singapore when good and encouraging things about them are suppressed for big and bad negative news?
Are we fast becoming a 狗仔社会 where we loose our ability to say anymore encouraging words to build a star? Can this entertainment world be a little more gracious? Don’t blame Singapore for not producing any stars when our very own local press media whose ‘hunger for all things negative’ isn’t helping at all…
This is a typical style of entertainment news reporting – the reporter first scanned the internet for a comment with an ‘explosive’ angle (even if it was just one single comment). He or she then constructed the story around it with more comments from elsewhere (sometimes may even call up people and ‘shaping’ their comments to fit the story).
Because it is clearly stated that the comments were coming from someone else, the reporter ‘redeemed’ himself/herself and avoided any possible legal action that the accused might bring upon the article.
This style of reporting is the most commonly used method in the entertainment industry. It is especially rampant in Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere and they have gotten worst with private photos of stars and 'stories' created to go with those angles. Readers love negative stories like this kind.
Zoe Tay was accused of celebrating her birthday at around the same time MC King held his wake. The photo of a happy Zoe at a birthday party next to a photo taken at MC King’s funeral wake…imagine the dramatic contrast…and your perception of Zoe in that context…
Even though a senior journalist from the same paper who attended Zoe’s party tried to justify Zoe's decision to carry on with the celebration (it was an event organized by MediaCorp’s magazines and radio station which was publicized earlier and involving a number of sponsors and audience turning up so it would be professionally bad to cancel it) in her tiny column, the damage was done. The headline ‘drew blood at the heart’ and no amount of ‘blood transfusion’ in any other sub-stories could undo the damage.
A star could suffer as a result when one single negative comment out of a million of good ones (not reported as usual) got blown up and many times 'out of proportion' in all techni-colors. How many big stars do we have in this tiny Singapore when good and encouraging things about them are suppressed for big and bad negative news?
Are we fast becoming a 狗仔社会 where we loose our ability to say anymore encouraging words to build a star? Can this entertainment world be a little more gracious? Don’t blame Singapore for not producing any stars when our very own local press media whose ‘hunger for all things negative’ isn’t helping at all…
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