Stomp Editor gets karma

[Littleknown]

 

Stomp has made many singaporeans mousy, escalating small disputes with phototaking, giving one sided stories, publicly humiliating people, causing people to judge one another too readily.

 

Even ST editor is hanging up the Stomp editor, making him apologise himself after apology last week. Too bad no picture of him.

 

This is karma. Hope he learns to edit Stomp better. If he gets to keep his job

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stomp editor apologises for false picture on website

 

Stomp editor Azhar Kasman apologised to train operator SMRT on Friday for a false picture posted on the citizen journalism website by one of its employees.

 

He also expressed regret that he did not cooperate promptly with SMRT staff during its investigation into the picture that purported to show a train moving with a set of its doors open.

 

It was posted last week by Ms Samantha Francis, 23, a Stomp content producer.

 

She has since been sacked.

 

 

Mr Azhar was writing in response to a letter from SMRT's interim chief executive Tan Ek Kia, which said that he had withheld material information from SMRT staff after the picture was first posted.

 

'This was a serious error of judgment on my part,' Mr Azhar, 32, wrote. 'I can only say in mitigation that as a relatively new editor, this was the first time I was dealing with a situation like this.'

 

He said he hoped to learn from this mistake, and that Stomp's operations would be tightened to prevent a repeat of such an incident.

 

On Friday, Stomp addressed on its website some of the questions that have swirled since the incident.

 

It said that posts from its staff would no longer be put up under nicknames but instead be clearly attributed to 'The Stomp team'.

 

It also made clear that Stomp - which has one editor and six content-producers - does not pay for content contributed by members of the public

 

[Xanavi]

Knn.... Not simple wor.... Must be some one up there ordered the apologies wor.

SMRT recently too many negative news liao.. must keep things under control... Sigh.. "Or arm"...

[Mockngbrd]

Stomp is b-------t. Shd just close it down

[Xers007]

where got time to edit all... so many rubbish post need to find out its validity and only a few editors... the most they can do is make sure no vulgar or derogatory remarks on the post.

[SGCMmaomao]

Close DOWN Stomp!

[Tonyng]

 

The editor Azhar and that junior Samantha pictures should be Stomped.

 

Why still keeping showing the open MRT door that was not to be? Sort of like posting the original crass defamatory statements in an apology. SMRT still clueless as ever.

[Wolfy3769]

Will this be like the NKF or CHC issue.. apologise now ... then 8~9 year down the road... find out to be otherwise??

[Celicar]

I thought the photo was a dead giveaway that it was a fake, at one corner got the sticker that can be seen from outside the train, how to not be taken from outside? Only ter gong will think got chance to bluff through.

[Matdxb]

This shows some ppl are gullible, easily believe what ppl tell them, Stomp must kena Stamp now.

[Yoongf]

Stomp should not allow anon postings.

[Jamesc]

"It said that posts from its staff would no longer be put up

 

under nicknames but instead be clearly attributed to 'The Stomp team'."

 

I think this is the bigger story than faking the doors being open.

 

[Jamesc]

  On 6/30/2012 at 4:17 AM, Yoongf said:

Stomp should not allow anon postings.

It wasn't anon.

 

[Celicar]

  On 6/30/2012 at 4:25 AM, Jamesc said:

It wasn't anon.

 

Why? It was under the name Wasabi, you have to put some name but that's not the really name, how is it not anon?

[Albeniz]

the 2 names sound very unfamiliar.

[Jamesc]

  On 6/30/2012 at 4:29 AM, Celicar said:

Why? It was under the name Wasabi, you have to put some name but that's not the really name, how is it not anon?

"It was posted last week by Ms Samantha Francis, 23, a Stomp content producer."

 

They should have declared it was by a member of their own team

 

and not a member of the public.

 

So they knew full well who the poster was.

 

It was their own staff.

 

[Celicar]

  On 6/30/2012 at 4:39 AM, Jamesc said:

"It was posted last week by Ms Samantha Francis, 23, a Stomp content producer."

 

They should have declared it was by a member of their own team

 

and not a member of the public.

 

So they knew full well who the poster was.

 

It was their own staff.

 

They knew does not mean it was not an anon posting. The public who read it does not know the identity, so it was anon.

[Jamesc]

  On 6/30/2012 at 4:48 AM, Celicar said:

They knew does not mean it was not an anon posting. The public who read it does not know the identity, so it was anon.

You are absolutely right!

 

Fooling the public to think it was a story by the public

 

and not a story by their own staff is not acceptable.

 

[Assaxefour]

  On 6/30/2012 at 3:18 AM, SGCMmaomao said:

Close DOWN Stomp!

please do it!

 

STOMPER = MF**ker, STOMPER editor = chief MF**ker! ST = Lord MF**ker!