Cool off but watch your TV
CNA attempted to justify the ridiculous ‘cooling off period’ proposal by pointing to the fact that “Australia has a three-day black-out of election advertising and Indonesia has a three-day cooling-off before Legislative Elections and a two-day cooling-off before the Presidential election.”
This is a disingenuous comparison. The Australian black-out bans election advertising. So does the Indonesian. LHL’s proposed ban, in contrast, does not apply to party political broadcasts.
This only makes it all the more transparent that the purpose of the proposed cooling off period is to allow the PAP to make full use of its media dominance to in effect have an extra day of campaigning via the mass media, during which the opposition parties will have little exposure.
