Notadoctor Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 one geographical definition of a town in UK as opposed to village used to be the presence of a Woolworths store. In a similar vein one can make definitions about a countries freedoms by the existence within that country of the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notadoctor Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, retarius said: Quite. How often have you heard the BBC going against British Foreign policy. Why is there nothing about Yemen and the starvation there caused by the Saudi/US naval blockade? Your ill conceived comment would indicate that you a have little or no knowledge of the BBC or any other form of media and how to assess it. It also appears that you consider that "bias" (a word you patently don't understand?) is the be-all and end-all of broadcasting; this only reinforces that appearance. ALL media is "biased" - it just depends on when and how - news is not facts alone as only a simpleton might think, it is what you make of the news that counts - and that is usually through some form of bias....LONG LIVE BIAS! one thing about the Beeb is that over 95 years of broadcasting, despite repeated onslaughts from both ends of the political spectrum is that they have consistently shown a bias towards rational and logical analysis and the truth. Edited March 9, 2017 by Notadoctor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMHILL Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 22 hours ago, whatawonderfulday said: Not needed anymore anyway. With the Thais fully conversant with social media, VPNs, Google auto translate etc etc they can get the truth anyway. It is highly unlikely that the station is truly used for what is publicised. Anyways, BBC and truth in the same sentence !!!??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 22 hours ago, webfact said: The centre’s large red and white transmission towers in Nakhon Sawan 240km north of Bangkok beamed local language news into tightly-controlled countries such as China and North Korea, and into places where many still rely on radio like Pakistan and Afghanistan Add Thailand to the list of locking out freedom of speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 6 minutes ago, JIMHILL said: Anyways, BBC and truth in the same sentence !!!??? In comparison to Thailand its a non brainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMHILL Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Retiredandhappyhere said: I do not agree that Google Auto Translate is particularly useful, if at all. When I have tried to use it in the past, I have needed to employ a translator to unravel all the gobbledy gook. Similar to a Swede visiting IKEA and asking for a translation of the signs & labels ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exnavy Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 22 hours ago, heybruce said: Pakistan and Afghanistan "well controlled"? Do you think these governments have the financial and technical means to jam radio signals across thousands of kilometers of border and millions of square kilometers of territory? Please tell us more. Thailand wants to censor BBC news. The BBC won't agree. The towers will be moved, Thailand will lose out on the money paid and the country's reputation will suffer another blow. BBC news has been censored for years! By the BBC itself! If you believe they broadcast the truth, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. Only politically correct sh.. comes out of the BBC these days so that they don't offend the 'new natives' and the corporate giants of this world. CNN, NBC, you name them, all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 2 hours ago, simon43 said: Radio Free Thailand, anyone? Is that the one where the husky wrestler type lady shouts out the news??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMHILL Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 24 minutes ago, Exnavy said: BBC news has been censored for years! By the BBC itself! If you believe they broadcast the truth, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. Only politically correct sh.. comes out of the BBC these days so that they don't offend the 'new natives' and the corporate giants of this world. CNN, NBC, you name them, all the same. You are almost correct, but try this one: The BBC has been censors from its inception! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BsBs Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 22 hours ago, worgeordie said: The Government must not have heard of that saying, Keep your enemies closer, so the BBC will just move to another Country,and broadcast the truths that the current Government does not like,and will have no control over. Regards Worgeordie Remember, they are Thai... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 12 hours ago, the guest said: BBC is fossil from the past, and biased. I won't be losing too much sleep that the BBC is no longer around. and you're not biased? Maybe you read Twitter for your news, and believe it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portroyal Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 An "uncensored truth" doesn'mean it is "The" truth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook23 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 23 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: Sorrowful... This is not what most of the Thais who were in the streets of BKK signed up for. They signed up for Radio Prayuth. And they got it 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 6 hours ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said: They signed up for Sutheps coup utopia and got a junta sewer. Nice turn of a phrase. That too would be my perspective on what most of the Thais protesting on the streets of BKK (against YL at the time) were hoping for, and then, what drastically different result they got instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notadoctor Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 27 minutes ago, portroyal said: An "uncensored truth" doesn'mean it is "The" truth... Must stick that on my fridge....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, simon43 said: Radio Free Thailand, anyone? Probably would be much needed here these days, given the way things have been going. At least, one benefit of the BBC ultimately having to move its transmitters out of Thailand -- if that's the end result here -- is that they won't any longer be subject to any potential technical/regulatory interference or meddling by the powers that be. I believe I saw a documentary on North Korea a few months back where, if memory serves, they indicated that basic possession of shortwave radios by the general public is outlawed, and of course all television is state controlled. So in the documentary, they had footage of North Koreans huddling secretively at home listening to illegal shortwave radios, and sharing illegal/smuggled thumb drives with video files of newscasts and entertainment shows from outside NK. Edited March 9, 2017 by TallGuyJohninBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunroaming Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 On 3/8/2017 at 7:42 AM, whatawonderfulday said: Not needed anymore anyway. With the Thais fully conversant with social media, VPNs, Google auto translate etc etc they can get the truth anyway. And all the lies and fake news and just about any other bull that gets broadcast these days. Best to just tune into Fox News! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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