attended two wp rallies over the past one week. one at hougang. the other at amk today. today didnt stay long to hear from low as i was q tired. on the way back, my colleague drove past the pap rally site at buangkok. wah seh. the difference was so damn big. at amk,the place was so crowded that walking or even driving was a problem. at buangkok, there was significantly much less pple.

if one uses the number of pple at rallies to judge the support of the party, then clearly wp will definitely win the elections at their respective grcs. but of course, the crowds at amk do not equate to the number of votes. there are of cos pple like me who go for the fun of listening to an alternative view. and yes. those politically apathetic will stay at home and vote for the pap.

but another thing that sparked me was the apparent biasness that the media display in favour of pap. yes, this is a super wellknown DUHHH fact. but it is simply appalling. i was watching channel 8's coverage of the elections. it was so ridiculously skewed.

1. at buangkok. where the pap was, they showed the crowd which had quite a number of pple. there seemed a lot of ppl simply because of the camera angle. at pasir ris, where sda was, they showed some pple sparsely seated. i dunno the whether this was true or not. BUT they nv show the HUGE crowd at the fields, the long chains of cars and pple moving towards the rally, the wp flags, the pple watching from their hdb, etc etc.

2. when they telecast the speeches of the candidates, the footage was cut to show the support for pap. how? if u notice, whenever the pap spoke, u can hear the cheers from the crowd at the end of the clip. but for the wp, they cut immediately after the wp finish their points. i know there were cheers because i was there. and the crowd was so spontaneous that after every point cheers and applause will be heard.

3. this is not about the coverage. BUT why mr wong kan seng get so much airtime as compared to mr low and mr yip?

i think the media should mature. else, like wat a wp guy said, we are a first world country with a third world free press. you cannot hide things in the present world. with internet it's highly difficult to prevent the masses to know about the truth. come on. the thousands of pple at amk will definitely know how well received wp is. these pple will spread the truth thru sms, blogs or watever means.

ok lah. q late le. but here is the disclaimer: i still dun support the opposition. just feel appalled at how our media works. hmmm... will blog something about democracy. an article on democracy that appeared in st.