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**Ifroham4** · 09-06-2012, 04:26 AM

I don't think Pritam expected it nor knows about it but he seemed to have undermined the PM's and PAP's carefully choreographed attempt to secure a stake in the online world. The event at the Istana seemed to backfired in an unexpected way. It is now the talk amongst the PAP political circles. Apparently Shanmuham's trial attempt to convert an online blogger has reaped results and with that PM decided to go the full hog.

Background:
Blogger met Shanmugam in June this year and wrote an article which is this http://gintai.wordpress.com/2012/06/...-shanmugam-sc/
Apparently they have been monitoring his blog to see if it worked. I have not followed his blog as I only heard about this today but it seemed to worked and thus the desire to rope in more bloggers who without realising it would become at least passive supporters of the PAP. Anyway its an Asian trait not to comment negatively after having accepted hospitality from the man himself. At least some will swing across, other will tone down and the remaining will remain with what they started.

And the man who ran this interesting campaign is ex-president's son who is now the Propaganda chief for Singapore Inc.

The Pritam Online Incident
I did not pay much attention and there is already an active thread in this forum, It is common knowledge that under LTK, WP has shied away from online political engagement. To the extent they saw the exit of 2 candidates as a result of it after the 2006 elections. Well no one expected an MP let alone a WP MP to go online and start what was a hilarious typical Singapore incident including settlement talk, making up over makan and drinks. It was obviously not planned neither was the fish that took the bait. And the fish was Andrew, the man who was engaged contractually by the same outfit that runs the Propaganda Unit.

I guess everyone will now be watching the Istana 27.

09-06-2012, 04:26 AM	#1
Ifroham4 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,196 Senior Member	Pritam has made someone really mad!! I don't think Pritam expected it nor knows about it but he seemed to have undermined the PM's and PAP's carefully choreographed attempt to secure a stake in the online world. The event at the Istana seemed to backfired in an unexpected way. It is now the talk amongst the PAP political circles. Apparently Shanmuham's trial attempt to convert an online blogger has reaped results and with that PM decided to go the full hog. Background: Blogger met Shanmugam in June this year and wrote an article which is this http://gintai.wordpress.com/2012/06/...-shanmugam-sc/ Apparently they have been monitoring his blog to see if it worked. I have not followed his blog as I only heard about this today but it seemed to worked and thus the desire to rope in more bloggers who without realising it would become at least passive supporters of the PAP. Anyway its an Asian trait not to comment negatively after having accepted hospitality from the man himself. At least some will swing across, other will tone down and the remaining will remain with what they started. And the man who ran this interesting campaign is ex-president's son who is now the Propaganda chief for Singapore Inc. The Pritam Online Incident I did not pay much attention and there is already an active thread in this forum, It is common knowledge that under LTK, WP has shied away from online political engagement. To the extent they saw the exit of 2 candidates as a result of it after the 2006 elections. Well no one expected an MP let alone a WP MP to go online and start what was a hilarious typical Singapore incident including settlement talk, making up over makan and drinks. It was obviously not planned neither was the fish that took the bait. And the fish was Andrew, the man who was engaged contractually by the same outfit that runs the Propaganda Unit. I guess everyone will now be watching the Istana 27.
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