Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, at the Foreign Correspondents Association

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Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, at the Foreign Correspondents Association

[Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, at the Foreign Correspondents Association Lunch Time Talk on 22 March 2007.]Ms Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, President FCAMembers of FCALadies and gentlemen,Good afternoon.1 I would like to thank the FCA for giving this opportunity to share my views on the new media with foreign journalists based in Singapore.2 Let me start by saying that all of you, journalists, owe your jobs to the invention of the printing press. It was first invented in China almost a thousand years ago, and subsequently in Europe some four hundred years thereafter. It enabled the creation, storage and dissemination of exponential volumes of new knowledge; laid the foundations for scientific inquiry; built new economies (including new jobs); and catalysed enormous political changes by dispersing the power that comes with information more widely than ever before.3 The invention of the

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