Netizens on Reddit had a field day in the comments section, despite CNA apologising for broadcasting a SEA Games medal tally table that mismatched nine out of 11 countries’ names and flags.
Out of the 11 countries, only Myanmar and Timor-Leste were matched correctly. The erroneous table was shown for less than half a minute and then corrected for subsequent updates.
In a Facebook post on Thursday (May 12), CNA said: “We made a mistake in our SEA Games medal tally table which aired on Asia First on CNA at around 7:50am this morning. The names of the countries participating in the SEA Games and their respective national flags were mismatched.
The error was on air for about 25 seconds. This error was corrected for subsequent SEA Games updates during Asia First, which included an on-air apology. We deeply regret this happened. It falls short of the professional standards that we expect of ourselves and we extend a sincere apology to our viewers. We will strive to do better.”
Despite their apology, netizens of Reddit were rather unforgiving in their comments. Here’s what they said:
Last year, CNA published a commentary on Wednesday (Jun 30) that many netizens, especially females, were not too happy about.
The commentary was originally entitled “Are university-educated women in Singapore asking too much for marriage?” and was later amended with the word “No” at the end.
Freelance writer Tracy Lee noted that based on the latest Population Census, 8.7 per cent of women from the ages of 40 to 49 were single in 2020, while more than twice that figure or 18.7 per cent of women in the same age bracket, who had gone to university were single.
“A figure that was roughly the same 10 years ago,” she noted.