This initial poll seemed to indicate sympathy for the opposition, but the debate had yet to begin – the night’s speakers, with their wealth of experience and skill, promised to change some minds. Two choices were given by the host: to sit on the left, and support proposition or to sit on the right to stand for the opposition. Upon entering, members of the audience were challenged with the motion ‘This House regrets media censorship in Singapore’. Students were invited by Raffles Debaters to spend an evening pondering the relevance, legitimacy and implications of these concepts in the second instalment of the Hodge Lodge Debate Series. Discussions about the presence, role and freedom of the media in Singapore never exclude buzzwords like ‘authoritarianism’,’ ‘free speech’, ‘draconian’ and ‘harmony’, but what do these terms actually mean? In terms of press freedom, Singapore is barely staying out of remedial. The World Press Freedom Index ranks Singapore 154th out of 180 countries – the 85th percentile. By Ernest Lee (17A01B), Gan Chin Lin (17A01B), Bryan Ling (17S06C), and Hari Kope (16S06H)
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