CNN reporters did not intentionally violate crime scene - they are fined 5K each for illegal work

[IAMHERE]

4 hours ago, monkfish said:

So seems it's true what CNN claimed they were let in. I have to admit all Thai officials ( Civil Servants) in their uniforms look like police. Also there are plenty of graphic pictures and videos on social media inside the building so who made those pictures?

Worse thing is one government official saying it's okay then another afterwards says no it's not okay. Result is fines and forced out of the country. Sounds like a scam in the making; we'll hear of this scenario again is my guess.

[malibukid]

4 hours ago, monkfish said:

So seems it's true what CNN claimed they were let in. I have to admit all Thai officials ( Civil Servants) in their uniforms look like police. Also there are plenty of graphic pictures and videos on social media inside the building so who made those pictures?

only sick people would want to look at those

[DjSilver]

OMG, did they really wai? That is terrible, and I would never had done that no matter what. What are they gonna do next, allow Prayut to Ass fuXX them or what?

 

Why do something so stupid as wai, they are better than that. Let the Thai wai them as foreigners.

 

Every time I see a foreigner in Thailand step in to a store and wai or wai a waitress I feel embarrassed for them. They are making fools of themselves.

 

All foreigners need to stop waing Thais.

[Iknow]

The US media have gotten so used to covering mass shootings in their own country infringing on peoples grief comes natural to them !

[mjakob007]

What was the real hiccup?

 

- reporters' encroachment

- negative PR

[ikke1959]

Soft power of THailand all to attrack more visitors...Soft penalties and deportations...

[Maestro]

Removed a post that was incomprehensible off-topic gibberish.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I don't like what these reporters did and hopefully they will be fined so that they will never do it again.

 

But all those reporters who like to show blood and dead bodies wouldn't exist if there wouldn't be so many people who want to see exactly that. Here, look at some bloody dead bodies, maybe a little pixelated, and "enjoy" it. It seems there are too many of those people who like to see all the bloody details.

 

And this website is also not innocent. Sometimes I see here a headline like: "3 people die in a car crash - video included in the article."

I wonder how many people click on that and how many people would just click on a written article without pictures or video.

 

Personally, I read the headlines about the recent shooting. I didn't look at any pictures or videos. Because what's the point? 30 dead people are 30 dead people. I don't need to see pictures of the bodies and the room where they were killed or a row of caskets. It's sad that lots of people somehow look at those pictures as some kind of entertainment. 

[SchuetzRob]

3 hours ago, scorecard said:

Did he lecture them? What did he say to them? Do you know? Can he speak English?

 

Can any of the current batch of snr. police speak English?

I guess they all speak Thai - and this might be helpful while working in Thailand...... ????.

[Jack Cook]

Scum second rate so called journalists working for the biggest fake news station on the planet. A month in the Bangkok Hilton would have been more fitting.

[marcusb]

47 minutes ago, DjSilver said:

All foreigners need to stop waing Thais.

All people need to stop telling other people how to act, and what to do.  You do you, never mind what others do. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

Possible scenario .

   A Policemen is sent to the school to stop any reporters going into the School .

   He's sat somewhere and doesn't notice any reporters going in until they are inside . 

   He then gets his tape out and tapes off the scene and then arrests the reporters when they exit the building ?

[expat_4_life]

CNN reporters apologize at a hearing

 

 

[Iamfalang]

24 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Possible scenario .

   A Policemen is sent to the school to stop any reporters going into the School .

   He's sat somewhere and doesn't notice any reporters going in until they are inside . 

   He then gets his tape out and tapes off the scene and then arrests the reporters when they exit the building ?

you think a multi-billion dollar company wouldn't have any evidence of this????!?!?!

 

Possible scenario:   CNN reporters are really undercover artifact smugglers and were caught trying to steal a priceless artifact that happened to be buried at the school.  They all put on an invisible cloak, but some of the cloaks didn't work and they were arrested.  There are still 100,000 people in Thailand invisible to the human eye.  The artifact is still missing and can unlock the powers of the universe if solved.  

[Iamfalang]

That CNN apology.

 

I gotta admit, I've given many FAKE apologies before and this one is really bad FAKE apology.  Horrible acting.    But at least they played the game.

 

still......they need some acting classes.  

[curlylekan]

I was willing to take the side of the Thai authorities, until I read the part that they asked to come in and they were allowed. If they went in without asking to make sure it was ok and stared reporting on the issue, then they are for sure in the wrong, but from what this article states, if they were allowed in after asking, that falls on the Thai authorities for probably doing something they should not have.

 

After reading about what has happened to them as a result of their actions, I would say that there is more going on here then you and I will ever know. I'm not going to speculate, but military regimes generally like to make sure that they control any narrative. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Iamfalang said:

you think a multi-billion dollar company wouldn't have any evidence of this????!?!?!

 

Possible scenario:   CNN reporters are really undercover artifact smugglers and were caught trying to steal a priceless artifact that happened to be buried at the school.  They all put on an invisible cloak, but some of the cloaks didn't work and they were arrested.  There are still 100,000 people in Thailand invisible to the human eye.  The artifact is still missing and can unlock the powers of the universe if solved.  

You do have a vivid imagination .

Its a known fact that when the reporters entered the school , there was no tape to stop people going in and that tape was there when they exited the school , which means the tape was put up whilst they were inside the school  

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Surachate said it might have been a case of "miscommunication".

The miscommunication was that health office officers gave them permission to enter when they should not have done so. The reporters did what they were told they could, nothing more. If anyone was at fault, and they were, it was the officers who said they could go inside. Those officers were trying to be helpful, as Thais often do, but were acting in ignorance. As Thais often do.

[newnative]

    Hmm.  I don't remember reading about any international news correspondents being booted out of Thailand for covering the Thai cave rescue without a work permit.  Just googled an old story and it said there were reporters from NBC, CBS, ABC, the BBC, and, yes, CNN at the cave site reporting on the story.  

[snoop1130]

2 CNN reporters deported from Thailand for having incorrect visas, not blacklisted

 

 

Two CNN reporters, who entered the crime scene at the childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province to cover the mass killings last Thursday, are scheduled to depart from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport for Hong Kong this afternoon (Monday).

 

Thai immigration sources said that the two journalists, Australian Anna Coren and Briton Daniel Hodge, are being deported because they held the wrong visas, tourist visas, to work in Thailand, adding that both had already been fined by the police in Na Klang district in the province.

 

The sources said that the two reporters will not be blacklisted and they can return to work in Thailand, provided that they obtain the appropriate visas, which are the non-immigrant type, with which they can apply for work permits.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/2-cnn-reporters-deported-from-thailand-for-having-incorrect-visas-not-blacklisted/

 

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[Confuscious]

I don't understand why everybody is making such a fuzz about 2 reporters who did nothing wrong, except doing their work while on a tourist visa.

The Thai media and many Thai sites publish this story in all colors and flavors without anybody lifting a finger.

 

Maybe it is because they are "Fahrang" and publish gore pictures is only allowed by Thais?

[sambum]

6 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

How if it has already been put out into the world wide press and viewed.  Not sure it can just disappear, well it can be scrubbed to a degree, but the dark web will have it somewhere forever.

Yes, horse and stable door! 

[spidermike007]

6 hours ago, dddave said:

"So how did it feel seeing your father stab your mom?"  Thai TV news reporter.

Get the <deleted> out of my face, you inconsiderate and insensitive super freak, would have been my answer. 

Edited October 10, 2022 by spidermike007

[edogthong]

2 hours ago, DjSilver said:

Every time I see a foreigner in Thailand step in to a store and wai or wai a waitress I feel embarrassed for them. They are making fools of themselves.

 

All foreigners need to stop waing Thais.

Yes, finally someone said it. It looks absolutely ridiculous when foreigners go around waing to Thai people in daily life. Just be polite like you would back home (hopefully), no need to go overboard. It's the same with foreigners saying "kap khun kRRRap". Don't try and be overly polite in their culture. You end up looking like a fool. Save your wais for maybe senior monks in a temple or perhaps when visiting someone's home if they're considerably old. Otherwise, a nod and a thank you is all you need.

[riverhigh]

Looking at the photo I feel like I'm in a high-end seafood restaurant on Walking Street. Two waiters in white explaining the seadood menu, 

Edited October 10, 2022 by riverhigh
spelling error

[riverhigh]

Love the thumbnail photo of the two journalists doing a dramatic and sincere wai. They should be given an academy award. No wnder they were only fined  5,000 baht. After seeing that photo I am positive they will never "unknowingly" break the law again. 

[Sharp]

5 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

And yet you did.

 

 

 

 

Again ????

[IslandLover]

8 hours ago, monkfish said:

So seems it's true what CNN claimed they were let in. I have to admit all Thai officials ( Civil Servants) in their uniforms look like police. Also there are plenty of graphic pictures and videos on social media inside the building so who made those pictures?

First responders?  It won't be the first time, will it, if past experience is anything to go by.  

[roo860]

1 hour ago, edogthong said:

Yes, finally someone said it. It looks absolutely ridiculous when foreigners go around waing to Thai people in daily life. Just be polite like you would back home (hopefully), no need to go overboard. It's the same with foreigners saying "kap khun kRRRap". Don't try and be overly polite in their culture. You end up looking like a fool. Save your wais for maybe senior monks in a temple or perhaps when visiting someone's home if they're considerably old. Otherwise, a nod and a thank you is all you need.

No need to 'wai' anyone, anytime. A polite nod of the head suffices.

[Yme]

No one complaining about the graphic vision coming out of Kyiv currently following the Russian missile strikes. 

A lot of people expressing fake outrage at two journalists DOING THEIR JOB and totally ignoring the bad precedents' being set and further tightening of press freedoms.

You let the genie out of the bottle and good luck putting it back. It's not any journalist's right to criticise a working journalist for not sticking with the pack and writing and filming the same stuff as everyone else.

 

It's especially out of line for the FCCT to criticise working journalists, endangering them and other foreign media.

 

So as it stands now the press, at least according to Teeranai Charuvastra, Jonathan Head, Saksith Saiyasombut and the FCCT board, should have freedom to say, do, and go where they want if it's about politics, or certain institutions (but not other institutions that those criticising this CNN pair won't write about), but not in the area of crime. How about the environment? Or government contracts? or agriculture?  

It's amusing that those making the most noise are those who don't routinely do field work, but are happy to illegally possess and wear a ballistic jacket when they do venture out of their office at those times when it is wise to have one.

Also the same old grifters such as HRW sticking their nose in to <deleted>bag out of town journalists (because they can't get played by him the way the ones he drinks with can). The same HRW grifter who refused to support journalists when they tried to get legal access to PPE about 10 years ago saying it wasn't a human rights issue.

The only thing missing from the RTP video is two guys standing on each side with their heads wrapped in a Keffiyeh holding AK-47s. Anyone who thinks that's a good look for two people doing their job, or for Thailand, really should give it another thought.