Written by Ng E-Jay
08 April 2014
STOMP is an SPH-run website that supposedly aims to bring light-hearted entertainment and citizen journalism to the masses. But in recent months, STOMP has disgraced itself time and again. It is both vile and atrocious that it dares to call the content it produces “citizen journalism”.
STOMP has mislead and misinformed the public time and again. It has churned out fabricated stories and has committed plagiarism on more than one occasion. It brings out the worst in human nature by encouraging people to send in incriminating videos and photos of other people caught engaging in anti-social acts, regardless of the mitigating circumstances surrounding those acts. STOMP is the epitome of what journalism — light-hearted or not — should not be.
On 24 March 2014, STOMP published a submission by an individual who fabricated a story about an National Serviceman not giving up his seat to an elderly woman on an MRT train. The story was entitled “Elderly woman stands right in front of him on MRT, but NSman simply acts blur.”
The STOMPer had written:
“I saw this NSman sitting on the train reading his book, even though there was an elderly woman standing in front of him. It may not be a reserved seat, but that doesn’t mean that we do not have to give up our seats to the elderly. He was just acting blur.”
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=8662