ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

ASEAN NOW will re-launch the World News Forum on May 25.

 

The World News forum is located below the Thailand forums, so it should be easy to find.

 

Direct link to World News forum:

https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

 

Our news team will publish Breaking and Top news stories from around the world for our members to comment on.

 

NOTE: Forum rules applies. We are also doing a major overhaul of the forum rules to be announced shortly.

 

More exciting things is in the pipeline for ASEAN NOW!!

 

I’m happy to announce that I have joined the ASEAN NOW team again after 6+ years doing other media projects, radio and entertainment.
 

Feel free to keep in touch in the comments, or by PM, if you have any questions.

 

Check out the World News forum! The news stream will appear later this evening and be in full force by tomorrow:

 

Go here: https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

 

Kind regards

George Anderssen

Business Development Manager and 

Founder and former CEO of Thaivisa.com / ASEAN NOW

 

Nice one. Good to see you back in this space, George ????

Great news!

Great news if different  opinions will be tolerated. Looking forward to the overhaul of forum rules!  Let's be fair. 

1 hour ago, alex8912 said:

Great news if different  opinions will be tolerated. Looking forward to the overhaul of forum rules!  Let's be fair. 

We can only hope that Musk's version of reality is adopted. I won't hold my breath though. 

Thanks for the link.

Welcome back too.

Can we have the same hopes for this forum as others had regarding Elon Musk and Twitter?

Golly jee and heavens to Murgatroid, its George,  The Ghost Who Walks!!????

 

Will we be free to criticise the US or will the truth still not be tolerated ?????

Will we be free to share scientific articles if they question or contradict political narratives? Will we be free to share proved insider information about the causes of contemporary political and health issues? Will there be a reconsideration of the definition of "misleading" and "troll" posts?

 

BTW: I appreciate if ASEAN NOW protects the members from violating local laws. But for everything else: We are adults as well with knowledge and experience.

Good to see that you are alive and kicking George.????

Going to give the ThaiVisa Bar another go around, huh?

31 minutes ago, Lite Beer said:

Good to see that you are alive and kicking George.????

Hi, long time no see. KK still?

Miss you mate!

26 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Going to give the ThaiVisa Bar another go around, huh?

Or an ASEAN NOW venue? Lol

I visited the forum and even contributed something to an argument that was fossilized over a year ago. I couldn't help but think about Jurassic Park and the law of unintended consequences. Are we all in danger now that these threads are coming back to life?

George, if you're only going to allow Reuters, CNN and the BBC, it won't be much news.  It'll just be propaganda.  But, you just keep on believing "Media Matters".

4 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

George, if you're only going to allow Reuters, CNN and the BBC, it won't be much news.  It'll just be propaganda.  But, you just keep on believing "Media Matters".

That's ridiculous. Reuters especially is highly objective and credible.

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/

 

LEAST BIASED

These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes).  The reporting is factual and usually sourced.  These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biases sources.

Overall, we rate Reuters Least Biased based on objective reporting and Very High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information with minimal bias and a clean fact check record.

Thank you for bringing it back.

Great to have it back and nice to see you my old friend. 

 

 

23 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

George, if you're only going to allow Reuters, CNN and the BBC, it won't be much news.  It'll just be propaganda.  But, you just keep on believing "Media Matters".

Perhaps Fox and RT to balance things.

18 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

That's ridiculous. Reuters especially is highly objective and credible.

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/

 

LEAST BIASED

These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes).  The reporting is factual and usually sourced.  These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biases sources.

Overall, we rate Reuters Least Biased based on objective reporting and Very High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information with minimal bias and a clean fact check record.

We will use different sources so it will be good stuff, don’t worry!

 

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1 hour ago, george said:

We will use different sources so it will be good stuff, don’t worry!

 

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I'm not worried but I do recall in the past it was frustrating because there were always some topics that obviously should be covered but there was no mechanism for user generated suggestions.

"NOTE: Forum rules applies. We are also doing a major overhaul of the forum rules to be announced shortly. "

Let's hope these changes include a sustained effort to drive out the anti Thai obsessives, the Thai haters, Thai bashers and generalised anti Thai racism whose constant trolling is a distraction.

Thanks for your comments so far! Watch this space, and we hope you will like when site moves on to be a better place for all! ????

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

That's ridiculous. Reuters especially is highly objective and credible.

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/

 

LEAST BIASED

These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes).  The reporting is factual and usually sourced.  These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biases sources.

Overall, we rate Reuters Least Biased based on objective reporting and Very High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information with minimal bias and a clean fact check record.

Sorry to say, but I have to disagree here.

 

While Reuters indeed is a good source for many topics, it's definitely not the case always and everywhere.

 

Keep in mind why a certain critic of local politics left Reuters Thailand. He talked about self-censorship.

 

Also note that James C. Smith is chairman of the Thomas Reuters foundation, while at the same time he is member of the board of directors of Pfizer. Conflict of interest? Possible.

 

Also check the role of the United States Council of Foreign Relations and it's influence on the world's biggest media houses.

 

Last but not least: Who are these so called "fact checkers"? Often biased themselves while belonging to the entity they check, often hardly having any own scientific background to check those who have, often having a lazy attitude, these "fact checkers" act frequently like a privatized ministry of truth, to speak in the words of Orwell.

 

But again, for many topics Reuters is a good source.

I do not understand the purpose of copying news from other sources, isn't it plain ridiculous ? or maybe just a way for old men to keep busy ? Never ever a world news had any interest in this forum and I don't think you are better when older...

 

A massacre  in America does not make news?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/may/25/texas-school-shooting-news-victims-uvalde-elementary-school-latest-updates

5 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

Will we be free to criticise the US or will the truth still not be tolerated ?????

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/may/25/texas-school-shooting-news-victims-uvalde-elementary-school-latest-updates

A troll post and several replies have been removed.

Reopening will go some way to make up for lack of interest in the regional forums.

 

And a renaming back to TV ? ????