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I was reading the Singapore city guide on The Economist's online edition when I first read about Chen Jiahao's case with his caustic soda blog. I attempted to check the post, but I was too unfortunate to find out that he shut the entire blog down. I did some research and got some second hand information from various sources, one of which is Channel News Asia's. But, I don't think this report unearthens all the facts so I had to conscientiously dig for more. up:gucci bags

Luckily, the Sassy Lawyer's entry on the blog case popped up amongst google search results. I was surprised that this story was interesting subject among peers in the blogosphere around first week of May (so ayun, mejo huli na naman ako sa balita). Anyhow, you may read her entry; scroll down to the section where she captured (in verbatim) Chen Jiahao's email addressed to Valerie Tan for her biased report.

This case unmistakably italicizes two important phrases: freedom of expression and ethics in journalism.

Firstly, I think of freedom of expression, maybe because, Singaporean government agencies, known for its ways to file defamation lawsuits against the media could be "notoriously" maneuvering to curtail the freedom of people in the blogosphere. Secondly, I suppose Mr. Chen has the right to claim that Channel News Asia was not true to their journalist's creed for all the one-sided press releases.

Regarding my stand, I'm undecided. Too ill-fated to not possess some first hand essentials. (Takot ma-shut down ang blog. haha!)