立刻当场拆毁谎言的重要性

Translated by Tan Lee Chong, Chinese Correspondent

(Original article by Fang Zhi Yuan HERE)

学习过心理学的人,会认识到人脑对谎言有巨大的容量和忍受性。

就像空白的屏幕一样,将吸收和接受任何投射在它上面的光,而不用进一步分析。

这就是主流媒介如何设法对多数新加坡人施加持续的影响力,虽然超过50%出版的东西不外是编造的故事、费话和宣传。

在一个繁忙的早晨,多数人只是浏览报纸,并不详细阅读它的内容。

报纸标题 (headlines) 是最重要的,因为他们设定每篇文章的议程和语调。

我们之中有多少人实际上肯花精神仔细地阅读文章去了解在词句之后真正的意思?

首次阅后印象将是决定性因数。新闻工作者知道选择某些词句插入标题内,为了引导或甚至误导读者,在他们的脑袋里产生合乎主流媒介所期望的观念。

就拿最近一篇文章谈及大多数新的工作给了外国人为例。

第二排次标题这样写道:“去年每10个新的工作7个给了外国人,而本地人避开这些行业”。它制造出错误的印象:统计数字是如此,因为本地人不想要工作。

多少新加坡人会停下来想一想这标题首先是否合理呢? 并且多少人会仔细地了解文章所引述的数字,从而知道公民和永久居民被编组在同一个“本地人” 的类别之下呢?

新闻工作者既然设陷诱捕信任它的读者,我们便要暴露他们的恶行。

一个谎言经常被重覆不休而不受到反驳和谴责,它很快便将成为无可辩驳的真相。

许多消息灵通的网民知道1993年詹时中(Chiam See Tong)先生从新加坡民主党(SDP)辞职的情况。然而,多数新加坡人仍然拥有错误的印象,认为詹先生被徐顺全(Chee Soon Juan)博士驱逐出该党。

这事件能够如此,是因为谎言未立刻当场被揭穿,还被重覆不休,使它成为新的“真相”。

在黄承德医生(Dr Allan Ooi)去世后整个星期,主流媒介不断地炮制和宣传各种误论关于他自杀的起因。

这些近乎荒唐的猜想包括了他沉迷于网上游戏和赌博。许多新加坡人相信了这个故事,虽然他们并不知道真正地发生了什么事情。

因此,当我们收到了黄承德的遗书时,我们决定立刻把它公布,不得延迟。或许我们可以等待几个月后才公布它,但那时造成的损害将会变得不可扭转,因为虚假的印象已经深深地印在公众的脑袋内而不被扭转。

当真相最终被显露时,所有谎言立刻消散了。媒介停止了人身攻击,网民强烈出来支持黄承德的家人和谴责SPH的新闻工作者,并且家人的委屈得以伸诉了。

无论何处出现误论、神话和谎言,就必须立刻拆毁他们。他们越是长期流通,他们将越是深深地确立,并且随着时间的流失,真相将越是困难地浮现出来。

我们对主流媒介每时每刻都必须保持警惕,我并且恳切地祈望所有网民加入我们的探索行列,作为主流媒介的监视人。

让我们不允许另一名无辜新加坡人的品格和名誉再被这些恶作剧者所抹黑。

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