Shah Salimat is the editor-in-chief of Singapore entertainment, lifestyle and issues website Popspoken. He tweets at @firdianshah1.
Just recently, I found a Web article about an artist whose "invisible art" sold millions. The words were prefaced by a photo of artgoers looking at blank walls, trying to find the "art" that was presented by the artist.
I shared it on my Facebook news feed, incredulous that such a gimmick made the artist a fortune. I then saw another friend sharing the same article. A comment under that post highlighted how the writers of the article came from a satire radio show that was fabricating articles and passing them off as news.
I got trolled, big time.
For some reason, I got the same feeling when I saw a video released by The Online Citizen showing a different view of the heckling that happened between Return Our CPF protesters Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui, as well as participants from an event held by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).
The ‘heckling’ – which actually consisted of disruptive chanting of ‘Return our CPF’ – made the news because, well, surely anti-government protesters would be exactly the type of mean-spirited, heartless people that would heckle special-needs children, right?
Read the rest of the article here: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/comment--various-accounts-of-cpf-protest--heck...