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  Project Eyeball says goodbye, for now   (cont'd)

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A LAST LOOK

By Bertha Henson

THIS is the story of a newsroom which tried.

We tried to put up a newspaper that was different. It would have a voice, we would speak for the young, we would dare to be different.

Yes, we started stumbling from Day 1. We made the mistake of hitching ourselves onto the dotcom bandwagon. And although we're pretty proud of our website, you know what websites are like - they don't make money.

And we made the mistake of looking too much like a technology/Internet only newspaper.

Of course, there were business decisions that on hindsight seemed pretty screwy -- in a market which also saw the launch of two free sheets, the 80-cent cover price was too high.

But still, we tried. Almost everybody here is in their 20s, and they went into this job with outstanding vigour. Today, they are a hardened lot who had the courage and stamina to carry on even when the going was rough.

There were some articles we were particularly proud of, like disclosing news of a top secret survey to evaluate students views' on national identity and the quiet closure of Singapore's only sex change clinic.

And over the past 10 months, while the work was hard, we had fun. Fun poking fun at Singapore's strait-laced ways Christmas carol-style. Fun trying to see if we could scoop other newspapers despite our small size. Fun coming out with the flashiest website with the full multimedia works, and the most elegant looking newspaper in Singapore. Yes, we're arrogant enough to say so.

But probably the greatest fun was getting reactions from readers who thought we had attitude and were willing to share theirs with us.

We'd like to think that we gave them the latitude to air their sometimes rational, sometimes irrational views -- and we printed them too.

That's because we believed that Singapore is ready for discussion - discussion of issues that might be considered taboo, like asking the PAP to campaign on the issue of foreign talent, because, really, people aren't too happy with it.

But at the end of day, money talks. And we're not bringing in the moolah. But that's the way the world works.

Maybe, we're a paper ahead of its time.

By the way, if this is your first time reading this newspaper, we wouldn't blame you. Because one other screwy thing about Eyeball is, we were pretty hard to find.

After today, we'll no longer be found.

Goodbye.

 

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