Every day I get a feed about how an organisation is adopting some form of Web 2.0. But it was surprising for me to read about the CIA and the US Army being so open to them.

• CIA adopting Web 2.0 tools despite resistance
• Army Orders Bases to Stop Blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr

Singapore has its own headlines on Web 2.0 too. A while ago Digital Life had a series on how various companies here used different forms of Web 2.0 to increase productivity, change work culture and practices, and so on. Those articles were presented in a positive but FYI kind of way.

Lately, there seems to be a negative tone to the headlines. Don’t believe me? Then take a look at a June 3, 2009 headline in the Straits Times:

The same article in the online version of ST read:

Not selling enough newspapers, ST?

Sensationalism is not the way to go unless it wants to walk down the tabloid path of The New Paper. I’m certain that the ST is facing the same pressures of news publishers in other parts of the world, but stooping low is not a way to distinguish itself.

But I think that it has already begun its slippery descent. After all, the same publishing company gave birth to Stomp. The denizens that used to congregate and in-breed in Stomp seem to have wandered into ST Forum. A cursory glance at the responses to most readers’ letters will reveal a village idiot or three.