and then what? have the stupid press blow up the "poor plight of innocent aspiring students passionate for music, CHEATED by a con-artist in the most heinous of ways," thus stigmatising the general lot of really good/honest private teachers, both on and off here?
Pardon me, but I believe that it would not stigmatise honest teachers. We already have a name for this particular black sheep, thus making it a lot easier to pin-point her for her mistakes.
The problem is, she's been conning people from all over the place. I doubt SOFT is the only forum that she's tried to pull this stunt. There are a lot more popular Singapore Forums and, I believe, she's done this stunt to other fellow Singaporeans.
In a way, this is to warn other people about her and hopefully, no one would get conned by her.
If she is capable of doing this in many forums, I won't be surprised that she would try to do this to other people outside of these forums. Not all Singaporeans patronize online forums, and she may try other dubious means of pulling the same stunt again.
In a way, going to the press, although not exactly the best form to blow things up, may be the only way to effectively stop her from playing these stunts.
And as for whether the press would do anything, all I can say is that The New Paper just thrives on any story that sounds juicy enough to them. They won't bother what's going on so long there's a sellable story. It's a tabloid, for goodness sake.
If you want reliable news, go to Straits Times. They don't thrive on gossip as much as New Paper. They deal with a lot more facts and is a lot more reliable then compared to New Paper. Not saying that they're 100% reliable, but at least, they're a lot more reliable.
Whether such a story would be used to cover up that, I'm not sure. I don't really bother much about politics or economics, and the general idea I get from the
layman in the street is that they don't bother too much about politics and economics in higher detail, well, apart from whether the government is not interfering too much and making their lives happy and that prices don't exponentially increase. I'm not saying that everyone's oblivious to it, but majority of the people aren't really interested or would find out until it affects them personally. Sadly, but true.
And, if you asked me, AWARE was blown up beyond belief. The New Paper kept barking up the wrong tree, which didn't allow the new team to even do anything at all. The "New Exco", in my humble opinion, could have done something constructive if The New Paper hadn't purposely distracted them from their main idea. Oh wells.
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