副总裁的回应 Reply from VP v1268

Paul Chan 在新报对梁家班的7位艺人作出侮辱性的形容后，这个就是他给我们的解释。

After insulting 7 J Team Artistes, this is the reply from the VP.

看了新传媒品牌和宣传部副总裁陈国明的解释，很多朋友告诉我，这个就是我们这行必须接受和忍受的事实，当惯了王，很容易目空一切的。我解释，新传媒里面的副总裁多数都很谦虚也很有大机构官员的风范，毕竟要升到这个位子，没有智慧是不行的。

After reading the explanation from Mediacorp's VP of branding and promotions, many of my friends told me this is part and parcel of what we have to accept and tolerate if we were to stray in this industry. It's easy to be overly conceited once you are used to being high up on the branch. But my reasoning would be, most of the VPs in Mediacorp are very humble and have the demeanor of high ranking officers in MNCs. After all, without wisdom, you can't make it up to this position.

副总裁侮辱了我的艺人然后叫我不要生气，说他是开玩笑的，还叫我把这事当宣传，在这里我要告诉副总裁，梁家班在电视台以外的活动都有自己的宣传方式，还不需要他来告诉我如何宣传我们的艺人，除非是新传媒的电视节目。

After insulting my artistes, this VP tells me not to get upset, saying it's only a joke. He even tells me to take this as publicity. I'd like to tell this VP here, that outside of Mediacorp, J Team has our own set of publicity activities. Therefore, we don't need him to tell us how to pull off publicity for our artistes. Unless it's a program by Mediacorp.

梁家班和新传媒一路走来少说也有十八年，间中的风风雨雨，我们饮水思源，继续保留同一阵线共同进退，这不是在讨功劳只是要告诉无知的人，我们的奉献，来到今天的关系是经过严格考验的，身为新传媒的合作伙伴，我们互相分享资源、艺人、经验和创意，这种合作关系是很难得的我们一直很珍惜，陈国明副总裁没考虑他人感受的评语，已经深深的伤害了对演艺表演准备做出奉献的梁家班新人。

There has been at least 18 years of collaboration between J Team and Mediacorp. We've weathered quite a few storms, but we also show gratitude by staying on the same side of the line and work towards a common goal. We're not asking for credits here, but we need to tell the ignorant, our contribution, and close working relationship, till date, have gone thru rigorous test of time. As a partner of Mediacorp, we share resources, artistes, experiences and creativity. This sort of working relationship is very rare, and we've always cherished. VP Paul Chan's senseless remarks have deeply hurt J Team's new artistes who've been all ready to start their career in the acting industry.

还有，我身为新加坡艺人公会的艺术顾问，对于他用“7月歌台的歌星”来形容梁家班的艺人深表关注。7月歌台的艺人是一份靠演艺才艺和劳力赚钱的职业，是一份正正当当的职业，为社会做出不少贡献，包括这次的癌症基金筹款，他们也发挥了他们的影响力，副总裁拿“7月歌台的歌星”来形容5位艺人，呈现了一个明显的贬意，我作为一个前7月歌台艺人和现任新加坡艺人公会的艺术顾问有权力进一步了解副总裁这句话的实质含义，以免日后让歌台艺人有所误会。

Also, as a committee member to Singapore's Artiste Association, I am very concerned by his comments & comparison of J Team artistes to "those girls who sing at seventh month getai shows". Seventh month artistes are a group of people who depend on their talents and skills to earn a living. It's a clean and proper profession. They are contributing to the society, and that includes the recent cancer foundation fund raising event. They have used their influence. The VP has used the term "seventh month getai girls" to describe 5 of our artistes, and quite obviously those are disparaging remarks. As a former seventh month getai artiste myself, and now committee member to the Singapore Artiste Association, I have the right to probe further into those remarks that the VP passed, so as to prevent future misunderstandings that may arise form getai artistes.

我们吸收7位女艺人进入梁家班当然是有我们自己的计划，从来也没有想过要模仿新传媒的7公主。成立了强片制片厂（neo studios）后，我们拟定的艺人路线，有我们自己的商业考量，不分青红皂白就直接形容我们7位艺人是便宜的冒牌货，这个形容，单单用开玩笑来解释，是难以信服的。

We definitely have our own plans for the 7 artistes that we have recruited, and we have no intentions to "copy" Mediacorp's 7 princesses. With the creation of Neo Studios, we've prepared the future of our artistes, in line with commercial values and considerations. Having made remarks and comparisons of our 7 artistes to "cheap branded fakes" without even understanding the entire situation, and then passing off those description as "a joke", is simply very lame and not convincing.

我希望陈国明副总裁，身为一个发言人，请尽快出来为自己发言，我相信我的网友读者还有受伤害的艺人和他们的家人都很想听到一个像样和具有说服力的解释.

I hope that VP Paul Chan, as a spokesman, can step forward and clarify for himself. I believe my blog readers, as well as those artistes and their families who were hurt by him comments, would really like a decent explanation from him.