Nicole Seah, former general elections candidate for Marina Parade GRC and a current CEC member of the National Solidarity Party (NSP), posted a heartfelt message on Facebook last week detailing the turmoil she experienced in her personal life in the past year.
When I read her Facebook message, I was touched by what she described and I could only imagine how much courage it must have taken to endure the events of her personal life after GE2011, which included rape threats, an emotional meltdown, a panic attack, the illness of a loved one, getting fired from her job, exhaustion due to the demands and expectations made of her, feeling helpless at having insufficient resources to help the needy folk she encountered, feeling insecure and self-conscious, and encountering men of unworthy intentions.
But to add salt to the wound, the mainstream media, like a malevolent predator smelling the blood of prey, pounced with its legendary viciousness, and smeared Nicole Seah with defamatory remarks that she was seeing a married man.
Both the English and Chinese newspapers tore into Nicole’s wounds like a pack of savage hounds intent not just on consuming but on destroying, declaring spitefully in big bold words: “In late October, Nicole Seah uploaded a photo of her with a man who is believed to be married“.
The truth is that this man is not married any longer, but divorced. Neither the man or Nicole Seah had done anything wrong. If they are having a relationship, it is a perfectly legitimate one. Yet the mainstream media shamelessly and gleefully pronounced this man as “married” on the headline of its articles. (See appendix)
Nicole Seah later clarified: “There are news reports in BOTH English and Chinese mainstream media that I am seeing a married man. This is NOT true at all, and an example of gutter journalism at its finest. Nobody even called me to clarify this and went to town with the story. To the mainstream media – If you’re looking to sensationalize your news in order to increase your readership at the expense of tarnishing a person’s reputation, please do so based on fact and have the decency to at least verify your sources before running off to print. This is grossly inaccurate and unacceptable.”
Let us stand in solidarity with Nicole Seah in denouncing as evil and immoral the predatory and unjust character assassination carried out by the mainstream media. This is vile and abhorrent. The mainstream media has tried to desecrate Nicole Seah’s fidelity in a most repugnant manner. But thankfully it has failed. The truth is known to us all.
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