FTI: More than 100,000 SME operators would call it quits

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The article doesn't state, but presumably the reason for their quitting would be lack of sales. So we need the press to start getting the facts straight here. It is a lack of sales not political turmoil. If sales were good, would they still be threatening to quit because of political turmoil? We need the press to start drawing the distinction that sales are down and this probably is attributable to demonstrations and blocking roads inhibiting people from reliably getting to work to sell and manufacture.

So if it is business issues like lower sales and employees not able to get to work, the press should start clarifying this and not just throwing the reason for quitting of 100,000 SMEs because of 'political turmoil." The Thai press has a responsibility to get the issues correct and not create and engender uncertainty as to politics as the sole reason without clarifying the economics.

Secondly, we can fairly assume that a large number of SMEs will fail every year from lack of financing, poor business operations, and faulty business premise anyway, so why is the Thai press sensationalizing that this large number, 100,000 SMEs, is all of a sudden using political turmoil as the excuse for their failure?

You are entirely correct about many of the SME's going out of business every year. Does the 100,000 include them.

All so the press and many of the different organizations have a habit of taking not too good and making it really bad.

for sure those in the area of the demonstrations can be in big trouble and there is no way they can get out of it as long as the protesters are there.

The Nation newspaper shall definitely be one of the first to go. No one buys the bleeting thing...

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