Singapore Hits Back

An interesting article I found in the SMH - Singapore's media seems to be speaking up, however bias it appears to be. Their main English-language paper, the Straits Times, has criticised the Australian media on its contradictory coverage of the recent racial riots and Nguyen's hanging a few weeks back. Just so you know, the Straits Times has close links to Singapore's ruling People's Action Party and is broadly supportive of government policy, or what local officials call nation-building (AAP, 2005).

Now I would directly link the article in question to this post but I have to register all my details including interests, income earnings all this crazy payment details in order to read anything off the site- I have to subscribe (it's not free) in other words, which brings another issue into the picture. Is this a case of press freedom? Or rather the fact that anonymous users are not allowed to access their online archive/site without having to register? Insightful, in terms of their media processes in my opinion..