{"id":368,"date":"2004-11-03T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2004-11-03T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:00:01","slug":"this_does_not_a_hero_make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"This Does Not A Hero Make"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t stand the way the contestants of the Subaru Challenge <\/a>are being lauded as heroes by the Mediacorp radio stations. Ok fine, so Mediacorp Radio is the organiser but still, the way the contestants, especially the last few, are lauded is just ridiculous. They are described as “brave” and are called “heroes”. Like purrrllleeeaassee, don’t make me puke. Granted it’s quite a feat to stand there and brave the erratic weather for so many hours, but it’s not as if they were doing it for charity. There’s nothing altruistic going on here for goodness sake!
\nSpeaking of Mediacorp Radio, I hate the blatant promoting of Singapore Idol every Thursday morning by the morning DJs. Just because the programme is broadcasted by Mediacorp TV, the morning DJs talk about who’s better and whose performance was better etc. And on Friday morning, they will talk about the previous night’s performance and speculate on who gets voted out. And no, I don’t follow Singapore Idol. I’ve had enough of the Idol franchaise.
\nAnyway, I’m more pissed off by the former issue rather than the latter. It’s bizarre how we glorify anyone and everyone these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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