STruggling Roles

I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.

Another veiled assault at a blog. My dear ST Journalists, why are you so afraid?

There was once a photo-journalist who shot himself in the head after taking pictures of starving African children.

There was once two journalists who brought about the downfall of the most powerful man on Earth and in so doing, stopped a senseless war in SEA.

ST journalists, you know your own power. Don't you remember?

Remember a few months back during the NKF affair?

Remember how you systematically destroyed TT Durai and ripped his credibility into pieces with your choice of words, headlines, pictures and innuendoes?

Remember how you gently evoked some subtle thematic balances in the reporting of the debacle? Carefully but surely demonising your enemy into public enemy number one.

Remember how you stoked the flames of public hatred squarely onto TT Durai with repeated coverage that he will not resign?

Remember that picture of a defiant Durai?

Remember how you twisted the peanuts out of MM Goh's wife and brought public outrage onto new heights?

Remember how the people and even the new media lauded you, the ST jouralist?

Remember the feeling of being a hero of the People, for once? To be an independent journalist?

When the People thought you did it out of true public interest and not self interest or regime interest?

So tell me ST Journalist. Has the ST found its role yet?

I am XenoBoy. I am the Political Savant.

"Father, I betrayed you. I trampled on the picture of Christ", said Kichijiro with tears, "In this world are the strong and the weak. The strong never yield to torture and they go to Paradise; but how about those like myself who are born weak ... who when tortured and ordered to trample on the sacred image ..." "There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong?" -- Shusaku Endo, Silence