MUNITY East 2019 Pre-Conference Issue: Two Sides of The Same Coin

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FORUM: THIMUN Singapore XVQUESTION OF: The empowerment and support of journalists and mediaSUBMITTED BY: MUNITY EASTMUNITYE A STDear Readers,We are MUNITY East, THIMUN Singapore’s pressteam. Our team of 23 talented journalists focus on keepingyou up to speed with all that goes on during the conference.However, we also produce articles that cover the issues youdebate upon. In those articles, we strive to mirror the idealTHIMUN conferences are built upon: to introduce participantsto a healthy balance of opposing opinions and perspectives.We included three articles in this issue in an toachieve our goal. On page 6, you would be able to read abouthow opinion pieces arein contributing to positivesocial changes, but could also act as “echo chambers” andradicalize readers’ opinions to dangerous extremes. Or, topages 15 and 16, which are dedicated to answering the question:should free speech be left unregulated, or should censorshipofrhetoric— which could have disastrousconsequences in the real world— be allowed? Or, considerjumping to the last page of this issue, which features a positivitypage to highlight the fact that, while the international communityfaces many great challenges, there is also a great dealof positive changes being made.We will continue our to achieve our goal for therest of the week, so please be sure to read our issues to comeon MUNITY online! On the website, you will a PDF form ofeach day’s issues in addition to posts of short features, candidsnapshots of the day, and carefully curated videos that documentyour THIMUN experience. We hope that you will havefun discovering surprising gems in the feature articles,your face in a sea of photographs, or time traveling throughthe videos.Your editors-in-chief,Ray Chen and Xuan Lin TanEDITORS IN CHIEFXuan Lin TanRay ChenTEXT EDITORSPriyanka KrishnaHyoree KimAastha GokaniLAYOUT & ARTISTSRyan HsiaoAngel YangJessica HsuJessie LiaoIshwarya KrishnaREPORTERSElla HirmatoIsabella WoodJade HenryJoey LinPing TsaiMatias CamachoJoshua TangPHOTOGRAPHERSZara YapDorian ChenJerry LinMatias CamachoJoshua TangVIDEOGRAPHERSJerry LinNicolas PaccaudTijn Van Der DikkenbergContactsSnapchat:munityeast2019Instagram:munityeast2019Email:eastmunity2019@gmail.comX V2
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