Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh questioned why Asia Sentinel needed to carry a correction notice not only on the page hosting the article, but also on its main page.
SINGAPORE: Online publication Asia Sentinel was required to carry a government-issued correction notice on both its main page and the offending article in order to reach as many readers of the original article as possible, said Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information Janil Puthucheary on Thursday .
It did not carry a correction notice at the top of its main page. The notice on its article was also placed below an editor's note which stated the online publication was"reserving the right to answer their demand at a future time" and that"we stand by our story".Mr Singh asked why the government needed Asia Sentinel to include a correction direction not only on the page hosting the article, but also on its main page.
“The inclusion of the POFMA correction notice on more than one location on Asia Sentinel’s website is to try and achieve the objective that I stated above,” Dr Puthucheary said. “Because having it on the article itself would be sufficient because then, the reader would know that this particular article is the one that has been flagged out – not every article on the Asia Sentinel website.”
“So, we need a variety of tools. And depending on how the site is laid out, depending on how the publisher manages its material, propagates its material – there needs to be some assessment of that done to make sure then that the correction is visible,” he added.
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