Guardian Article Hits Raw Nerve With Idiots

[sinbad]

The Guardian newspaper along with the Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Independent are the UK's leading newspaper publications. They employ investigagtive journalists of the highest quality on a world scale. Duncan Campbell's report was based on observation and fact.

The two questions that have to be asked are: what was not true about Duncan Campbell's report in the Guardian newspaper? What particular point was sensationalist?

People like Prof. Fart, Thomas Merton, and Britmavia, who responded to the article in a negative way, used phrases like, "cheap sensationalism...a smack in the mouth is the least they deserve (referring to the journalist)"; and "...the ugly sister of political correctness"; and he's offended "...by bad boys who can get laid for as little as #10 pounds";and "utter rubbish". To any normal person, these comments say it all; that is, the warped mentallity of these people is clear for all to see. There are, in fact, some normal people living in Thailand; and, most normal people cannot help but draw the obvious conclusions from such comments -that these people have lived in Thailand for so long they have lost all touch with reality; they no longer know who they are who what they stand for; they are living in denial; they have never lived in Pattaya or drunk in bars like the Dogs <deleted>; or a raw nerve was hit psychologically, because, perhaps in trying to justify their own private antics they feel they must go on the attack (so perhaps they do live in Pattaya and frequent themselves with the type of people who frequent bars like the Dogs <deleted>); they refuse to admit they are hypocrites.

Pattaya is an unreal world. It attracts a huge number of the worst kinds of people, both farang and Thai. There is very little social control, and the police are a mafia unto themselves. When people open page three and four of the Pattaya Mail or Pattaya Trader and read all the horror stories of murders, suspect suicides, and crime, have these stories been made up? The sign outside the Dogs <deleted> that said Charlton versus Yids, was that not really there? The huge number of old, ugly men that can bee seen walking round with young tarts on their arms, do they not really exist? The murder case that Duncan Campbell referred to, was it fiction? The fact that hundreds of girls are drawn from poverty stricken rural areas and choose to sell their bodies for as little as ten English pounds, as one writer boasted, is that not true?

We are all hypocrites to a certain extent, some more than others, but don't live in denial and try to justify and defend the downside of this place; otherwise, things can never improve or move on.

[Vagin]

I agree entirely. Once people start living in denial, it proves they have been here too long. They can no longer tell the difference between Pattaya life and reality.

[fourbaht]

Sinbad

Your point is partially valid, I doubt if there is anything "Untrue" per say in this article, however that does not mean it is not sensationalist.

Live here and you will see that Pattaya has a lot more on offer than cheap goods for petty criminals to buy.

The article picked up on what the vast majority of people who live and work on Pattaya legally will tell you is a very small part of life here.

Bangkok I am sure has a larger international criminal element than Pattaya does, a check of where the foreigners that reside in the BKK hilton and where they were arrested would easily verify this I am sure.

Crime in Pattaya sells news papers, would a story advising that the number of families holidaying in Pattaya has risen 45% in the past 3 years be of any interest?

Would the fact that foreign investment in property and the retail sector has doubled in the past 4 years be of interest? No is the simple answer.

The problem is not with the press, it is with the readers, the papers only print the crap that sells, not what is fair and balanced.

The fact is fair and balanced stories do not sell newspapers.

A sign on Rupert Murdochs desk reads "give the people what they want not what they need" That about sums up the whole of the british press at the moment and why not they want to sell newspapers.

So the answer to your first question is no, nothing untrue, the answer to your second depends on your view of sensationalism.

But were you asking the right question? perhaps the question should have been is was this a balanced report on a town where 650,000 British and 2 million other visitors choose to holiday every year.

Real life is never quiet as interesting as the news papers will have you believe.

[cdnvic]

I'd be more inclined to agree with the validity of the point if the original poster wasn't using a second identity to post messages of support. That's beyond lame.

cv