Missing out being in Singapore during the current General Elections (GE), I viewed most of it over the Web. However, depending on where you get our information about the GE, the information covered varies. So I've decided to tabulate the past 7 seven days (28 April to 04 May) online articles by the 4 mainstream Singapore media Websites -- The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, Yahoo Singapore and AsiaOne.
The compilation was based on articles published from the party’s perspective. If an article covers more than one party’s perspective, an article count will be given to all parties involved.
I realized that the media coverage do vary quite a bit when comparing The Straits Times (ST) and Channel News Asia (CNA) coverage. Articles covering parties such as Singapore People's Party (SPP) and Workers' Party (WP) doubles in CNA. The results suggest that if want broader and in depth coverage of the general election, CNA, Yahoo Singapore and AsiaOne are better.
First time attending a rally? How did that go?
I don't get to vote. The system is not clear with the proceedures. I had to clarify it via a few emails with the Elections Department of Singapore. If overseas Singaporean want to vote in this election we have to inform them earlier this year. However, by the time the news of an election came around, it was way past the dateline already. So a lot of us do not get to vote.
