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Zaobao journalist posts clarification on Facebook that she did not “sabotage” Dr Chee Soon Juan in her interview with him
March 24, 2010 by admin
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Written by Our Correspondent

Lianhe Zaobao journalist Ms Yew Lun Tian who conducted a rare interview with Singapore Democratic Party leader Dr Chee Soon Juan a few weeks ago, has posted a clarification on her Facebook denying that she had attempted to put Dr Chee in a bad light deliberately by portraying him as being evasive about his income.

Dr Chee had taken offence at the following segments of the interview which was published on 28 February 2010 in Lianhe Zaobao:

“坊间流传他是拿了外国机构的资金，所以才能继续在新加坡无后顾之忧地进行公民抗争式的斗争。左问右问，他回答说：“我是学者，偶尔也领一些外国的研究基金。我的著作有时获奖，有时也参加海外的研究计划。”哪方面的研究，是有关民主的研究吗？他含糊地说：“嗯，或者是人类行为之类的。”

The above was translated to an article by Jeremy Au Yong which was published in Straits Times the next day:

“After being prompted a few times, he replied he also gets money from doing research work overseas…….When asked what area of research work he does, he replies vaguely “er, human behaviour or something like that”.

A day later, SDP Assistant Secretary-General John Tan sent a letter to the editors of both Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao on behalf of Dr Chee who was in prison:

“I wish to give you the heads up that there are several matters in the reports over which Dr. Chee takes issue with. For instance, the articles appear to suggest, inaccurately, that Dr. Chee was evasive when touching on questions about foreign funds.” (read article here)

This was followed by letters written by Dr Chee Soon Juan to the forum pages of Lianhe Zaobao and Straits Times on 7 March 2010:

“Dr Chee Soon Juan has written letters to the forum pages of the Lianhe Zaobao and Straits Times over the interview that was published by Zaobao on 28 Feb 10 where the newspaper said that the SDP secretary-general was evasive when asked about his income.” (read article here)

The Straits Times Forum published Dr Chee’s letter on 17 March 2010 titled “Chee claims ZB interview implied he was anti-S’pore.”

Dr Chee accused the article by Ms Yew as an attempt to portray him as being evasive about his income:

“The way that the report is written is clearly an attempt to portray me as being evasive about my income. I had told the Zaobao reporter, Ms Yew Lun Tian, clearly that I depended on my books and from time to time, help from my relatives for survival. Because she found it hard to believe that this was sufficient, I told her that we lived simply and frugally……Yet Ms Yew reported it in such a way that I was trying to avoid her answer and had something to hide. What is left unsaid, although clearly implied, is that I may be a stooge of a foreign agent conducting activities against Singapore.” (read letter here)

In a posting on her Facebook yesterday, Ms Yew wrote that she received numerous feedback from friends and colleagues who thought that her interview was another attempt by the mainstream media to sabotage Dr Chee after reading his letter in the Straits Times Forum.

She added that she was tired of explaining to them individually and she is now laying the facts on her Facebook for readers to judge for themselves.

Ms Yew revealed that she was the one who initiated the interview with Dr Chee as she thought that readers are curious about him and the 30th anniversary dinner of SDP presented an opportunity for the interview with the emphasis that she was not directed from “above” to do so.

“Alongside the interview was a 500 word news article about the Dinner, and a photo of the fashion show highlighting SDP uniform. Both were written by me. To my knowledge, this is the first time local media ran a profile interview of Dr Chee and gave SDP under him so much publicity,” she wrote.

She explained further that she implied Dr Chee’s replies were evasive in the article because they were as she had to ask at least seven times in different ways to get the answers. In other words, she was simply reporting the facts as there were – that Dr Chee did appear to be evasive.

A partial transcript of the interview is posted here.

The predictable response of Dr Chee and his supporters may be sparked by historical animosities between him and the Singapore media which had demonized him countless of times in the past.

To be fair, the articles on the SDP anniversary dinner and the interview with Dr Chee by Ms Yew were largely objective, fair and balanced and did portray SDP positively on a whole, even prompting one blogger to write an article “The coming around of SDP and Dr Chee”.

Ms Yew even used a smiling photo of Dr Chee in her article (see left) and quoting him in a caption to generate a positive image of him and SDP which will not be the case had she really wanted to “sabotage” him.

While the mainstream media has not done itself any favors with some blatant unfair and inaccurate mis-reporting on opposition leaders in the past, we have to be rational and give credit when it is due.

Adopting an antagonistic stance against the mainstream media all the time will not do the opposition any favors.

In this case, though Dr Chee was portrayed as being evasive in the interview, he did state clearly the source of his income which has helped to dispel lingering public doubts about him and this would not be possible if Ms Yew had not proposed the interview to her superior in the first place.