SPH, ST editor given "stern warning" for Punggol East exit p
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SPH, ST editor Warren Fernandez given 'stern warning' for Punggol East exit poll
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Yahoo! Newsroom - The Straits Times poll published on 10 January this year, written by four of its journalists, asked 50 Punggol East residents who they would be voting for in the by-election earlier this year.
Singapore Press Holdings and its flagship newspaper The Straits Times chief editor Warren Fernandez were issued stern warnings by the police for an exit poll it conducted in January this year that was against the law.
A statement from the Attorney-General's Chambers issued on Thursday confirmed the action taken — one that comes after months of speculation over whether the poll findings, which were published in an article dated 10 January, violated the Parliamentary Elections Act (PEA).
Three days later, the Elections Department said the police were looking into the matter. Fernandez then explained that the article was "not a full-scale survey, or scientific poll, by any means", adding that the headline had "overstated the significance of the information gathered by calling it a poll".
The article in question gave information detailing which party some 50 residents in Punggol East were planning to vote for.
"While 21 of those polled say they are undecided, those rooting for the People's Action Party outnumbered opposition supporters 19 to 10," said the report.
"The edge that the ruling party appears to hold may be a reflection of the incumbency advantage it has always held in a middle class, traditonally PAP-leading ward," it continued.
The Punggol East Single-Member Constituency by-election that was subsequently held saw the Workers' Party's Lee Li Lian winning the seat with a roughly 10 per cent victory margin.
As it was published after the Writ of Election was issued by President Tony Tan on 9 January, it violated the stipulated blackout period for the publication of any election-related survey results, described in Chapter 218 of the PEA as "during the period beginning with the day the writ of election is issued for an election and ending with the close of all polling stations on polling day at the election".
These police warnings were issued in lieu of public prosecution, which was done in 2011 when Joseph Ong Chor Teck was arrested for conducting an exit poll on the then-Temasek Review Facebook page.
Anyone who is found guilty of conducting an exit poll within the specified time period in the Parliamentary Elections Act is liable to face fines of up to $1,500 or a jail term of up to a year, or both. -
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So long ago, I already forget le lah.
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Who cares about one forgets or not!
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No one cares, that's why it got forgotten.
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kckucgkm
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i think stern warning only because the IIW (i change from MIW to IIW.. Idiots In White) lost the seat
otherwise they'll just forget about it
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It causes the IIW to lose the seat, a stern warning should not be enough, they should arrest and put him in jail...
otherwise they can give a warning as wayang show.
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�人��命 :( both are editors Jospeh Ong of Temasek Review and Warren Fernandez of SPH. One was arrested and eventually given a warning and the other given a stern warning!
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50 residents.
wow.
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the matas just come bk from their vacations? after so long, shd just keep quiet la..
then the efficient record will not be question.. where did they go for vacation?
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all on "baby leaves"?
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
It causes the IIW to lose the seat, a stern warning should not be enough, they should arrest and put him in jail...
otherwise they can give a warning as wayang show.
Wayang wayang lar.anywhere is the same, if things getting out of hands, must push someone to cover the back side.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
50 residents.
wow.
That's why the actual result was very different from the surveyed result.
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Originally posted by Smarttech.888:
Wayang wayang lar.anywhere is the same, if things getting out of hands, must push someone to cover the back side.
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alamak, must be the life in this little red dot . needs to tip-toe on watever u r doing
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Originally posted by charlize:
That's why the actual result was very different from the surveyed result.
But I thought our elites always claim that our traditional media is the best and always report the truth unlike the internet. Also always tell us not to trust the polls/result that are not by the "official". Now make me blur already, am I suppose to trust or not
