1. Muhammad Hasnor Hashim is an attention-seeking liar. Or maybe he just agreed to say whatever Straits Times wanted him to say to get his 15 minutes of fame.
2. Straits Times is a joke of a newspaper.
This one has been clear for a while now, this latest episode simply confirms it.
This all means last week's article was not even verified. The Straits Times journalists are simply fed the stories and completely believe whatever people tell them. No fact-checking, not even a mental "does this even make sense?" check. Almost everybody on HardwareZone forums has doubted this story ever since it first came out but apparently this didn't seem even remotely weird to anybody at Straits Times. Real journalism is alive and well in Singapore.
And this week's articles come with not even an apology or even a firing of the said "journalist" and her editors. Instead we get a pathetic article that, I guess, tries to explain how this came about. But really, it's all just a bunch of bullshit. Straits Times failed big time with this and did not even have the decency of taking responsibility and apologising. Instead they are trying to shift all the blame to Muhammad Hasnor Hashim.
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