由反抗到調適:新加坡媒體與政府的關係--以平面媒體為分析對象

Abstract

新加坡特殊的政治環境塑造其政府對媒體基本不信任的態度，從而發展出對媒體層層箝制的管理方式。然而，究竟星國媒體從業人員對身處的工作大環境抱持何種想法？其他國家駐星國的學者或記者又是如何看待此一「空調型國家」的媒體系統與機制？本文除由歷史層面瞭解星國媒體政策形塑的時空背景外，並親赴新加坡訪問當地媒體人員，藉由當局及其他組織最近釋出的各項文件，嘗試勾勒星國平面媒體未來走向。

The special political environment makes how Singaporean government treats its media: always suspicious of the intention of the later and thus develops numerous ways to manage or even control the media. However, what do people work in such environment think of their jobs and the government under which they’re working? And how do the scholars and reporters from overseas look at the mechanism and system of such an “air-conditioned nation”? The writer managed to analyze how the media policy was made in term of Singaporean unique political history and interviewed local media people in Singapore. Based on the documents released from Singaporean government and other organizations, the author tried to outline the direction that the Singaporean media is going to in the future.