Green issues 'need in-depth coverage'
MR ABDULLAH TARMUGI yesterday called on the media and concerned groups to play a bigger role to raise public awareness of the need to protect the environment.
The Minister of State for the Environment said that newspapers had done their bit to give prominence to articles on the environment.
But more could be done. In-depth articles that make "readers think and reflect on how things like littering, recycling, and pollution affect their surroundings and their country" could be published, he suggested.
There were also too few locally-produced television documentaries on the environment.
Mr Abdullah was speaking at a photography competition prize-giving ceremony at Times House in Kim Seng Road yesterday.
Quality controller Vincent Chin, 39, won the top prize of a plaque, a Kodak Cameo camera and 30 rolls of film in the competition with the theme "Love Your Environment" for his picture of a dead fish floating in a pond.
The contest was organised by the Singapore National Union of Journalists and the Environmental Forum for Communicators of Singapore and sponsored by photographic film manufacturer Kodak.
Source : The Straits Times 16th Apr 1995
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