When Stomp, The Straits Times' Online portal was launched, I believed that it was an interesting way of getting the news. From people out there who can be on location where things are happening as they are happening.
After some time, I started realising that channels such as "What Bugs Me", "Caught in the Act", "Ugly Commuters", "Motoring Goondus" and "Singapore Sotongs" also are beginning to serve other purposes. One of them being to serve individual "self-righteousness" by posting their peeves about what others do.
To a further extent, it being hosted on the Internet means that what peeves these people have are actually spread around the world.
Should we be supporting this slamming of our own country? I suppose that shame might teach us the lesson of becoming more civic minded and socially responsible but I doubt it will have a lasting effect. Look at what CWO (Corrective Work Order - for littering) has become? Initially, the newspaper coverage and all led to littering offenders being publicly shamed but that was at the initial stage when public interest was high. Now, they don't even bother reporting when CWO is being carried out so what shame is there? It's more like serving a public service sentence now more than anything.
Which is probably whey SPH shouldn't bother keeping those channels in Stomp unless all they're interested in are page view dollars.
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i agree. stomp is good for the kaypohs who would rather stick their noses into other peoples' businesses rather than worry about the crap in their own lives... and why? because they wanna feel they're being 'heard'
LOL
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