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Hundreds of defiant Singaporeans protesting censorship gathered in Malaysia to see a documentary banned by regulators in their home country as a threat to national security
JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia Hundreds of defiant Singaporeans protesting censorship gathered in Malaysia on Friday, September 19, to see a documentary banned by regulators in their home country as a threat to national security.
'To Singapore, With Love' poster
The film, "To Singapore, with Love", examines the case of political exiles in the city-state and features interviews with nine former activists, student leaders, and self-confessed communists who fled Singapore from the 1960s until the 1980s and are currently settled in Malaysia, Britain and Thailand.
Organizers estimated 400 people watched the screening, saying most of the audience was made up of Singaporeans who had crossed the border to view the production in the southern Malaysian city of Johor Bharu.
The Media Development Authority (MDA), Singapore's media regulator, on September 10 banned the documentary, saying it provided a "distorted and untruthful" account of the exiles' situation.
It said the film's contents undermined national security because it showed "legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimized innocent individuals".
According to the Singapore government, a number of the exiles featured in the film were former members of the Communist Party of Malaya, which had sought to overthrow governments in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s.
Singapore became independent from the Malaysian federation in 1965.
"I am disappointed by the reaction of the MDA, I wish it was otherwise of course...I spent a lot of time making it and really would have liked this film to have been seen (in Singapore)," director Tan Pin Pin told the audience in remarks after the screening.
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Defiant Singaporeans watch banned docu in Malaysia
Okay, I have to tackle this one.
The media, which are not exactly immune to crazed obsessions, now stand accused of going off half-cocked on the NFL.
That is, theres a backlash to the backlash against the league, an argument that the press has taken some cases of domestic violence and abuse and practically equated the National Football League with the evildoers of ISIS.
To wit: On the NFL, the media has lost its collective mind.
The argument comes from National Review Editor Rich Lowry, writing in Politico. And while I admire Lowrys writing even when I disagree, on this one he is missing some crucial points.
Yes, the media do everything to excess, and the video of Ray Rice punching his fianc was aired so many times that it became mind-numbing (to the point that the networks finally agreed to cut way back). As Lowry says: The coverage of the Rice elevator video managed to combine moralistic preening with voyeuristic pandering. Everyone on TV professed to be so outraged by domestic violence that they had to show a clip of a woman getting viciously punched, over and over again.
And yes, cable news can cover such emotional stories in an endless loop. Lowry even likens the NFL coverage to the missing Malaysian plane.
But this is no longer a mere news story. Its a cultural moment. We are actually engaging in that much-overworked phrase, a national conversation.
Roger Goodells initial wrist-slap for Rice quickly gave way to a focus on other cases. The furor forced the Carolina Panthers to bench Greg Hardy at the last minute after his conviction for throwing his ex-girlfriend in a bathtub, choking her and threatening to kill her. The uproar forced the Minnesota Vikings to sideline Adrian Peterson at the last minute after his conviction for child abuse in the whipping of his 4-year-old son. And if all this wasnt bad enough, Jonathan Dwyer of the Arizona Cardinals was arrested Wednesday on assault allegations, with police saying he head-butted his wife and broke her nose after she refused him sex, and punched her in the face the next day. Lovely.
Im glad the press is going nuts over this. Of course the problem is not limited to professional sports, but men like Rice, with their $10-million-a-year salaries, are cast as community icons. This is not a debate that should be limited to ESPN and the sports pages, as Lowry suggests. Its been ghettoized there for too long. This is front-page, top-of-the-newscast stuff.
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Media out of control on NFL? Nope, it's about time
911 Call Reporting George Zimmerman #39;s Road Rage Threats
A 911 caller reported that George Zimmerman threatened him, then followed him to a store. Two days after, the man sees Zimmerman at his place of employment a...
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Social networking sites can help people lose weight, according to a new study.
For people who are obese, sites like Twitter and Facebook can be an inexpensive and convenient source of support from doctors as well as peers, researchers found.
"One advantage of using social media over other methods is that it offers the potential to be much more cost effective and practical for day-to-day use when compared to traditional approaches," the study's lead author, Dr. Hutan Ashrafian, a health policy researcher at Imperial College London, said in a university news release.
"The feeling of being part of a community allows patients to draw on the support of their peers as well as clinicians. They can get advice from their doctor without the inconvenience or cost of having to travel, and clinicians can provide advice to many patients simultaneously," Ashrafian, who is also a surgeon at the college, said.
The study's authors examined the results of 12 previous studies involving almost 1,900 people in the United States, Europe, east Asia and Australia. They found that the people who used social networking sites to lose weight had a modest but significant decrease in body mass index.
"The use of social media to treat obesity encourages patients to be more pro-active and empowers them to contribute towards their own treatment. It's not the only solution to the obesity epidemic, but it should be introduced as an element of every country's obesity strategy." Ashrafian noted.
The study, written for the World Innovation Summit for Health and published in the Sept. 8 issue of Health Affairs, pointed out that social networking may not be a good option for all overweight people trying to lose weight.
"There are also possible downsides, such as potential privacy issues and a need for the patient to be Internet savvy, so it may not be right for everyone," Ashrafian explained.
"The studies we looked at were the first to investigate social media approaches to obesity. There needs to be more research into this area to see what approaches work best for which patients in light of the dramatic global adoption of social media tools and content," said Ashrafian.
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Social Networking Sites Can Help Obese Lose Weight: Study
