Business ads seize on SPH CEO Ng Yat Chung’s ‘umbrage’ comment

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Trust businesses to take “umbrage”, I mean advantage, of a good promotion opportunity when it arises. Singapore Press Holdings CEO Ng Yat Chung’s “take umbrage” comment at a news conference on Thursday (6 May) has propelled it into the hottest catchphrase in Singapore.

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SPH to restructure media business into not-for-profit entityFollowing more questions about maintaining editorial independence, SPH chief executive officer Ng Yat Chung appeared to lose his cool and said he took umbrage at such questions. Pointing to reporters present at the press conference, he said that their media outlets “receive substantial funding from various sources”, but they do not describe themselves as “bowing to the needs of advertisers in doing your job”. “(At) SPH, we always have advertising, but never pander to the needs of advertisers… The fact that you dare to question (the editorial independence) of SPH titles… I don't believe even where you come from, you concede in doing your job,” Mr Ng said.
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