Bangkok Post Top Story On Philippines Trafficking

[jbsears]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/tops...s.php?id=117109

One of the top stories of the Bangkok Post today was on human trafficking in the Philippines. I know it is a problem there, but isn't it a bit off for the Bangkok Post to feature the Philippines problem when Thailand has the same exact problem. Its like the USATODAY running a front page story on the negatives of Great Britain attacking Iraq.

[ThaidleHands]

Makes perfect sense in light of Thailand's unofficial motto... "Our Sh*t Doesn't Stink"

[Scott]

The journalist model in Thailand is as the previous poster has suggested. Everything is couched in terms that makes other places look bad or at least worse than Thailand.

It doesn't matter what it's about. If it's the business report and the stock market is down, then they will list 4 or 5 countries where it is worse!

Right now, everything is OK here. Mai Pen Rai, no problems!!

Nothing to report except on those dirty Flippers (until they can find something really wrong in Singapore).

[steveromagnino]

The journalist model in Thailand is as the previous poster has suggested. Everything is couched in terms that makes other places look bad or at least worse than Thailand.

It doesn't matter what it's about. If it's the business report and the stock market is down, then they will list 4 or 5 countries where it is worse!

Right now, everything is OK here. Mai Pen Rai, no problems!!

Nothing to report except on those dirty Flippers (until they can find something really wrong in Singapore).

Haven't seen the article, but anyway it is syndicated from DPA (NOT a Thai company) and is available and presumably featured around the world in various magazines. Gloria, the writer is presumably Philipino.

Typical newspaper/press drivel, BKK Post have always been a bit more of a lap dog than the staunchly hysterical Nation.

Scott, please let me know what you think of the last 2 weeks of Matichon. Do you also feel that the Thai language press couch everything to make Thailand look better?

[kmart]

Makes perfect sense in light of Thailand's unofficial motto... "Our Sh*t Doesn't Stink"

Sounds like a great tourism blurb! Have you informed the TAT yet?

The soporific Bangkok Post is so bland these days that sometimes I wish they'd ask Trink to come back.

Perhaps not.

[wintermute]

The journalist model in Thailand is as the previous poster has suggested. Everything is couched in terms that makes other places look bad or at least worse than Thailand.

The editorials are a real gasp, occasionally one of the Thai writers will come up with some decent points but it's usually a bunch of rambling justifying the current state of affairs. There is rarely dissent that goes against the status quo most of it is just sycophantic nonsense.

I remember when the coup happened one of the editorials written by a thai person basically stated that the poor were too stupid to understand democracy and that it's up to the more educated middle class and established elite to "guide" them.

[ThaidleHands]

I remember when the coup happened one of the editorials written by a thai person basically stated that the poor were too stupid to understand democracy and that it's up to the more educated middle class and established elite to "guide" them.

It's largely true, at least in the American or Eurpoean models of democracy. Democracy arises either through parliamentary reforms or popular uprisings, which are typically organized, led and funded by the social elites including intellectuals, office holders, large landowners and merchants.

[graesta]

Do you also feel that the Thai language press couch everything to make Thailand look better?

If you have been here long enough.. you just don't feel it -you know that they do..

[steveromagnino]

Do you also feel that the Thai language press couch everything to make Thailand look better?

If you have been here long enough.. you just don't feel it -you know that they do..

Matichon?

Really?