A litany of death and destruction as reported by TV. Better or worse than usual?

[thaibeachlovers]

I don't often look at my alternate e mail account so get a long list of TV notifications. I can't remember when there has been such a depressing collection of titles of death and destruction as today. Yes, there are always some, but today it's appalling.

Is Thailand really getting worse. Just the inevitable Songkrn death toll is bad enough, but to take the present crop of farangs killing each other and trying to throw babies to their death, that seems new.

What's your impression- is it getting worse or better?

[Swiss1960]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

[thaibeachlovers]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

I know that. I was asking if it's getting better or worse than in the past.

[jarrcbb]

Don't learn Thai. Once I started reading the Thai newspapers my view of things got much, much worse.

[thaibeachlovers]

Don't learn Thai. Once I started reading the Thai newspapers my view of things got much, much worse.

Yes. Just the pictures are bad enough.

[Swiss1960]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

I know that. I was asking if it's getting better or worse than in the past.

How could we possibly know, since there are no reliable statistics available here in Thailand?

MAYBE it is getting worse and that is why we see more such stories.

MAYBE it is NOT getting worse and we see a higher percentage of such stories because of a higher percentage of population / foreign tourists

MAYBE it is NOT getting worse, but the newpapers must fill their pages with such stories, because in the last year, they lackes stories about the political demonstrations, hicup and squabbling of the politicians...

How would we know.. for me personally, the situation got neither worse or better, since in all my years, I have never been victim of or even close to any crime.

[i claudius]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

I know that. I was asking if it's getting better or worse than in the past.

When i first came here there was a magazine full of pictures of people who had been murdered ,killed in car crashes ,all in full colour ,the Thai love this sort of thing ,but now they pixilate the gory bits . its the same all over the world ,yes the world seeems to be getting worse ,there are more of us living on top of each other ,if you think its bad now wait till there are 10 billion ,15 billion on the planet ,things are going to eventually get out of control ,but as stated who in the hell wants to read about us with our kids watching tv and driving to Tesco ,its only interesting if i kill the wife on the way and then get shot by the police after throwing another farang off a balcony.

[Aachen]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

I know that. I was asking if it's getting better or worse than in the past.

Yes.

[berybert]

_{I read the online version of an English paper called the Daily Mirror. They seem to travel the world looking for stories of people getting killed, raped, street fights. Or anything to do with people with loads of money. I think the money stories are thrown in to make the uneducated jealous therefore hopefully leading to the previous.}

_{As for TV as long as I can read about a taxi driver returning 100000 baht once a month, then the beatings of westerners and deaths of babies is ok.}

[NeverSure]

as long as I can read about a taxi driver returning 100000 baht once a month, then the beatings of westerners and deaths of babies is ok.

[Costas2008]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

There is a newspaper in the UK, that it's called, News of the world.

This newspaper is like the TV, news section.

All deaths, murders, rapes and UFO's appearing over the UK.

The only difference is that News of the world put a picture of a naked chick sometimes, but TV as they care about our morals, do not do that.

So nothing new here and also think that in a population of 60million people and another 3million foreigners what is happening and what TV reports is a needle in the haystack.

TV, you are doing a good job, carry on as before but please give us some naked chicks to enjoy.

[thaibeachlovers]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

There is a newspaper in the UK, that it's called, News of the world.

This newspaper is like the TV, news section.

All deaths, murders, rapes and UFO's appearing over the UK.

The only difference is that News of the world put a picture of a naked chick sometimes, but TV as they care about our morals, do not do that.

So nothing new here and also think that in a population of 60million people and another 3million foreigners what is happening and what TV reports is a needle in the haystack.

TV, you are doing a good job, carry on as before but please give us some naked chicks to enjoy.

They may not give us any pin ups, but the models on the "dating"/ "wife for sale" ads are pretty cute.

BTW, is anyone stupid enough to believe that the models are really looking for some old fat bald guy to marry for "luuuuuuuuuuuve"?

[CharlieH]

sex and bad news is what sells... not farangs happy with their Thai wife / GF...

There is a newspaper in the UK, that it's called, News of the world.

This newspaper is like the TV, news section.

All deaths, murders, rapes and UFO's appearing over the UK.

The only difference is that News of the world put a picture of a naked chick sometimes, but TV as they care about our morals, do not do that.

So nothing new here and also think that in a population of 60million people and another 3million foreigners what is happening and what TV reports is a needle in the haystack.

TV, you are doing a good job, carry on as before but please give us some naked chicks to enjoy.

Just for you Costas, chicks in their birthday suits.......

[redandyellow]

It's abysmal. I wrote 2 books about it so far, one in 2014 - one this year, but no one cares in the age of supreme, myopic entitlement - unless it happens to a loved one, no one give a sh-- in general about the veritable plethora of foreigner fatality factors in the LOS.

Except a few people like us.

Such is the state of the world.

I makes one a bit apathetic too, after years of it..

Now we know how the Thais feel - with their hands

Kind Regards