Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Apparently, he's presented it to the news media, but I have not seen what he's proposing,

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.