“I Say, You Say”

The lamestream media got it wrong again. Zaqy Mohamed did not inititate any legal proceedings, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chua Chu Kang GRC merely demanded that the website take down an offending post within 24 hours. And will someone please tell the MP only licensed websites have to take down unfavourable posts within 24 hours or risk losing $50,000, and the instruction has to be issued presumably by MDA?

This has to be one of those “I say, you say” situations which Lee Hsien Loong said will leave "a permanent question mark hanging over his reputation, and the reputation of my government."
Zaqy maintains that his credibility hinges on the replacement of railings at the staircase, that the railings have been there for some time and are not new. The lady hurt as a result of a poorly maintained staircase says different:

The "I" and "you" parties involved in the dispute are obviously Zaqy and lady, or vice versa, as both have a conflicting understanding of the incident.  Zaqy said he and the town council will respect the claims of investigations being conducted with regard to the staircase accident in the Chua Chu Kang GRC which left Ms Serene Tham injured. So why is a third party reporter dragged into the fracas?

One plausible reasoning is that the MP does not want to see his name associated/tarnished by the negative publicity in the event the insurance investigators rule in favour of the damsel in distress. Here someone should tell the MP about the Streisand effect. Wikipedia defines this as the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.

Thanks to the brouhaha raised about "editorial integrity", we are entertained again by the sight of another MP shooting himself in the leg.