“Our public service media play an important role to inform, educate, and connect Singaporeans,” added Mrs Teo.
“They provide trusted and timely sources of information to form a common basis for social discourse. They also reflect our multicultural fabric and way of life.”
Mrs Teo said that the government provides funding for the overall operations of public service media entitles, rather than individual programmes in order to allow them to “effectively adapt and innovate in the fast-changing media landscape”.
Responding to Mr Foo’s point on funding local programmes, she said MDDI has moved from solely tracking Mediacorp’s TV reach to a “broader reach metric across all Mediacorp’s platforms and social media platforms”.
