tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post294907950284878810..comments2024-03-16T15:49:59.567+08:00Comments on Senang Diri: Blue on Blue: Part 14David Boeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401913253357584603noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-40534213302185901152019-02-02T11:00:52.871+08:002019-02-02T11:00:52.871+08:00This article is worth revisiting in 2019 after ano...This article is worth revisiting in 2019 after another round of accidental deaths.<br />So much have changed. So much haven't. Money Henghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09947387120081181327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-88111313774289854482009-12-28T13:48:28.290+08:002009-12-28T13:48:28.290+08:00Anon @ 28/12 9:21am, and your point is...?Anon @ 28/12 9:21am, and your point is...?Viper52noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-32842599937110944212009-12-28T09:21:51.496+08:002009-12-28T09:21:51.496+08:00"Given the unique setup of our national media..."Given the unique setup of our national media - and I'm being polite here - it is very easy for the system to impose a total news blackout on all SAF deaths. 90C would comply. So would the state-owned radio and TV stations."<br /><br />Interesting given that Field Marshal Boey was once part of the state apparatus and is now a paid casino man under the employment of a foreign entity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-41669254398040093222009-12-27T18:04:06.312+08:002009-12-27T18:04:06.312+08:00ref wednesday deaths.
remember I told you about m...ref wednesday deaths.<br /><br />remember I told you about my classmate's fatal accident in 1982? it seems similar accidents involving A-vehicles happened within a few days for two straight previous years. so what can we say except there are somethings we don't understand. BTW in case I did not mention to you, the dates were within the period leading to the surrender of Singapore on Feb 15.FIVE-TWOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16851587877202687062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-26204166312701371842009-12-27T17:39:28.212+08:002009-12-27T17:39:28.212+08:00FIVE-TWO: It's tough enough compiling the data...FIVE-TWO: It's tough enough compiling the data when officialdom isn't forthcoming. My goal is to achieve the best possible compilation of data and I'll let the social scientists, medical professionals and statisticians trawl through the figures and arrive at their own conclusions.<br /><br />There was one year when we had a spate of deaths on Wednesdays. How do you explain that?! Poor karma? Mis-alignment of the planets?<br /><br />re: Blackout on reporting deaths. I agree that there are many who prefer this approach.<br /><br />Given the unique setup of our national media - and I'm being polite here - it is very easy for the system to impose a total news blackout on all SAF deaths. 90C would comply. So would the state-owned radio and TV stations.<br /><br />The downside of that is surrendering the initiative to the rumour mill. Cynics would have a field day retelling the story any way they want as there's no official account to set the story straight.<br /><br />My sense of the matter is that the cost of a news blackout on SAF training accidents would far outweigh any potential gain in saving MINDEF/SAF's image.David Boeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11401913253357584603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-40273267230525165872009-12-27T17:01:08.205+08:002009-12-27T17:01:08.205+08:00There are many who would prefer it if no bad news ...There are many who would prefer it if no bad news are ever reported at all, this is the mentality which persists even after four decades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2348464617577736454.post-65071143867764631042009-12-26T22:51:33.256+08:002009-12-26T22:51:33.256+08:00David, does your fatality tally separates them int...David, does your fatality tally separates them into training accidents (as in heat exhaustion, crushed by tanks, killed by explosives and ordnance, drowning during mission, etc) vs "administrative deaths" such as dying during IPPT and runs, killed by LR in camp, etc)?FIVE-TWOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16851587877202687062noreply@blogger.com