I feel so utterly disgraced by some of the comments made by fellow Singaporeans in those Razor TV clips. I hope this is NEVER viewed by a wider international audience.
You'd think that if you're trying to take a jibe at Michael Jackson, you could at least do it with a little clever WIT?! Not pathetically lame comments like "MJ will contribute to global warming because he's plastic. He should 'beat it'!"
Oh wow, grade school toilet humor.
And Razor TV chose to depict Singapore's reactions by using these uncultured, uneducated, miserably insensitive remarks? You don't have to be a fan to even feel outraged at the sheer stupidity and misrepresentation of it all.
The people who did the post-production for these Razor TV clips should be wholeheartedly ashamed of their work and selection of interivews. If you're going to try to capture the flipside of reactions to MJ's death, at least use the ones that make some sort of sense (I.e. non-media propaganda lapdogs, hungry for camera time). Not only are you representing the people of Singapore as an insensitive, shallow bunch of bigots to an International Internet audience, you do it at such an inappropriate time. Nobody expects your amateur productions to be of the standards of CNN, but sheesh, with content like this, you're almost making STOMP look like credible award-winning journalism. Most annoying of all is the way the journalist, in her faux accent which resembles a mutant cross between an English amateur journalist and an Aunty at a coffee shop taking an order for meeeeeloopeng, feeds and guides her interviewees towards feelings of 'negativity' for his plastic surgery and child molestation charges. Where is the professional neutrality?
I'm sickened. And the only reason I'm so harsh towards this is because these clips are free to be viewed by anyone in the world. And what would people think of us if we're generating such media content? There's a difference between a random person Vblogging on his YouTube channel, and a so-called Internet media channel approved by the governing media bodies of Singapore. Adequate would have been fine, but these clips, especially Part 2, are just plain disgusting.
