Media Watch for the ASEAN Football
Championship
With 48 hours before the ASEAN Football Championship start and
Singapore kicked off to defend it ASEAN crown, let take a look at the media
reporting this time round as one never forgot how they always seek to ask where
the support is when they should also be asking themselves that question.
It seem the local media (especially SPH) before this year ASEAN
Football Championship, has been more balanced in their reporting
Before the previous edition, even when
This year even when
For unlike last time, even up to the semi-final of the Tiger Cup,
SPH had the audacity to send a female interim reporter to report on the match,
with no senior reporters in sight, this time a friendly Cup competition like
the King Cup saw SPH dispatching a reporter.
First of all, there is nothing wrong with the reporter being a
female or an interim but it was the fact she was more into lifestyle than sport
and had admitted in her article she wanted to be in
How then was it that the article got past the editor cut, one
never know but it was not about sport and how hypocritical (All of them as take
your pick with those who were harsh before suddenly writing he always believed
in Singapore and proud of it) the editors are once Singapore was in the Final
(and it was the second leg as in the first leg SPH wrote as little) as they all
jots to write with both the AFC website and soccernet website picking up on it
noting up until then the SPH media was non-existent but this time had 6 pages.
So then if Singapore do well this time, hope the Lim and the Tay
do come around and write about how they believed in Singapore so do not end up
like in their own reports why Singaporean do not come out in force to support
the National Team when they themselves should looked at the mirror and asked
their own (biased) reporting.
As for Mediacorp Today, that year 2
years ago was the start of the partnership (S-league and
This time around it not much different as they are the only paper
that consistently send a reporter to Singapore overseas trip with last year
Asian Cup qualifiers a good example as they were in UAE, China and Jordan
(while others may relied more on overseas report)
So the question is will it last?
Maybe for MediaCorp Today but not
holding too much over any of the SPH papers as their track records over the
years do not fill one with confidence.