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| ====== 1967 ======= | ====== 1967 ======= | ||
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| + | ===== n.d.: Government vs Straits Times ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Protagonists ==== | ||
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| + | * Lee Siew Yee, deputy editor-in-chief, //Straits Times// | ||
| + | * Lee Kuan Yew, then prime minister, Singapore | ||
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| + | ==== Actions Taken ==== | ||
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| + | * According to Turnbull, who was commissioned to chronicle the history of Straits Times: | ||
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| + | >"The prime minister himself on occasion summoned and harangued editors. Lee Siew Yee recalled two 'extremely unpleasant meetings' in 1960 and 1967, when Lee Kuan Yew "made clear, in brutal language, that the Straits Times was on sufferance'" (p. 226). | ||
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| + | ==== Source ==== | ||
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| + | * C. M. Turnbull. (1995). //Dateline Singapore: 150 years of The Straits Times.// Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings. | ||
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| + | ==== Category of Repression ==== | ||
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| + | * Summoning and censure of editor by prime minister. | ||
| ===== March: Government vs Utusan Melayu ===== | ===== March: Government vs Utusan Melayu ===== | ||