Online journalists fair and accurate?

Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K, Shanmugam took to task the socio-political blog – The Online Citizen – for its incomplete report which implied that MP Seng Han Thong made a racist remark on national television. Political commentators told TNP that this latest development affirms the need for the online media to be more accurate and balanced in their news reporting. SMU assistant law professor Eugene Tan commented, ‘The fact that The Online Citizen is not going to respond will quiet things down… but one hopes this issue has not subjected the social fabric here to strain.”