Bangkok Post reporter retracts interview with Yingluck

[jesimps]

Bangkok Post has become a red-rag ever since the protests started last November. I'm sure someone at the top got bought. Their reports of some of the confrontations missed out many important extreme red-shirt actions and they 'allowed' many new forum members who were clearly some English speaking PR company. They were all extremely pro Pheu-Thai, wrote excellent English (unlike the average red-shirt whiner up to then) and - most revealingly - wrote with a similar style and grammar.

I'm sure they thought the world would believe that Thai public opinion supported Pheu-Thai but the effect for me was exactly the opposite. It showed just how dirty they were prepared to play.

This article is no surprise to me at all : it was a political piece written to gain public support for Yingluck. Bangkok Post are currently sniping at the junta every chance they get. It just confirms how deep the rot goes and why Prayuth has such issues with the media. Don't get me started on the raving red shirt loony called 'Kong' who they give column space to ....

You bitching about the BP makes me very determined to start buying it.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

its author, Wassana Nanuam, later wrote on her Facebook that the piece was not based on an interview with Yingluck. Rather, the article was drawn from bits and pieces of private conversations with the former leader, Wassana wrote.

"I just wanted to present lighthearted and colourful angles [of former PM Yingluck]. I didn't want to focus on politics," Wassana wrote. "Let me insist that this is not an interview. It's a recollection of lighthearted and colourful topics about the former Madam Prime Minister."

According to Wassana, the editors at Bangkok Post "misunderstood" the intention of her article when they edited the piece.

From a journalism perspective, I have no idea what all of this explanation is supposed to mean....

Private conversations with Yingluck talking with whom, the reporter or someone else? Private meaning off-the-record, or something else?

Conversations when? Back when YL was still Prime Minister, or after her ouster?

Is she saying the editors at the Post mangled and changed the content of her writing?

And more to the point, how is Yingluck likening her ouster in the coup to getting car-jacked at gunpoint anything remotely resembling "lighthearted and colourful topics" about the former PM?

[JAG]

With that kind of journalism, why are we buying the Bangkok Post?

Because the alternative is The Nation?

[Thai at Heart]

Hahahaha.

So they got her to admit she just dreamt up all these statements and that is supposedly better

[metisdead]

A post containing off topic rambling comments has been removed as well as a reply.

[louse1953]

Sounds like dear leader has pointed a gun at the reporter. Guess it's off to the factory to have her I love dear leader chip implanted.

You really dont like the fella, do ya'

To be honest no. He demands admiration and respect from the masses and if you don't love and adore him you are dragged off for forced adjustment. Yingluk was a numnut and had to be replaced but this guy is totally self centred. He thinks he is god and the country is his and he is extremely dangerous.

This is Taksin your talking about,right.

[Chaz1819]

Was it not reported yesterday that YL was not returning to politics and wanted to be a social worker ?

No investigative journalism here but a lot of the fantasy version.

Sounds like dear leader has pointed a gun at the reporter. Guess it's off to the factory to have her I love dear leader chip implanted.

You really dont like the fella, do ya'

To be honest no. He demands admiration and respect from the masses and if you don't love and adore him you are dragged off for forced adjustment. Yingluk was a numnut and had to be replaced but this guy is totally self centred. He thinks he is god and the country is his and he is extremely dangerous.

ditto