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The Press Needs To Invest In Its Professionalism
Dr Cherian George has argued that the PAP government needs to invest in the credibility of the press. He pointed out that the government model of 'mass attention-on-demand through the mass media' is outdated and that its insistence on a 'crippled press' shows 'short term rationality', something that has 'hardened into dogma'. George insists that it is in Singapore's long term interests to have a mass media can play an effective Fourth Estate role in ensuring good governance or at least to provide a unifying force a la print capitalism in constructing and maintaining the collective consciousness of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. This portrayal is, of course, an ideal type; the mass media has often in the pocket of powerful interest groups, be they the political or business powers that be. But even so, the ideal type has a powerful appeal, both to media consumers and professionals. It seems that what underlies George's exaltation of a credible press as a social good are the norms of mass
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