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sharecropper, on 2009-11-18 17:21:52, said:
Pattaya Diver, on 2009-11-18 15:46:24, said:
Some people need to read better and more and bitch less.
The bar owner story was in the Pattaya Mail
http://www.pattayama...news.shtml#hd12
The rape story is in Friday's Pattaya Mail. And, as howard accurately stated, the victim herself inissted the matter not be disclosed to the press.
The bar owner story was in the Pattaya Mail
http://www.pattayama...news.shtml#hd12
The rape story is in Friday's Pattaya Mail. And, as howard accurately stated, the victim herself inissted the matter not be disclosed to the press.
Thank you for proving my point, although you need to be more attentive to dates.
1. The bar owner died on October 1st, was removed to Bangkok, autopsied and brought back for cremation with zero publicity here. The Pattaya Mail story appeared over 2 weeks after the death and after the temple rights and only as a result of the Pattaya Ghost journalist’s involvement. No crime scene photos or report, and no follow-up on the bizarre death story.
2. Re the rape, the Pattaya Mail isn't out yet. We have many daily news bulletins on the internet, some of which have no fear where others do. None have so far covered this story in the time since it occurred.
I don't recall the poor father whose son drowned in Pattaya Water Park having much say in blanking out news coverage. Didn't he get fined for trying?
Obviously the local news outlets don't have the resources to cover every single incident, or the channels to get the info on every single incident that happens in pattaya from every police station every day, process it all and report on it.
Yes the news isn't fantastic, they pick up the handful of stories they can find and report for the day and move on to the next day. there's no bbc budgets, usually just a half dozen people to do everything.
On one hand your telling everyone about a conspiracy to cover up the news 'the effective blackout' and on the other your shouting out how bad and slow the reporting is. as if they could organise a media wide blackout on an article while at the same time not being able to report anything else property because they're too slow and inept.
How is it no different to all the crimes that go on in any other country every day that don’t get reported because the person in question doesn’t want it publicised?
If you have so much time on your hands and are concerned about the news, donate your time to one of the local agencies to try and improve it. i doubt many tourists read the local news and the locals know the local news isn’t fantastic, so like yourself they also read international news.
End of the day there's not enough resources, reporters, staff or money to do it all, find the news, report on it, fact check it and follow up on the outcomes.
But I digress, i'm just feeding the fools own delusion on reality.
Maybe users should have to pass a reality check before they are allowed to post on a forum?
Edited by foxxx, 2009-11-24 15:15:41.
how do i become a ptv Howard?,i speak and Read Thai and I'm pretty good at Martial Arts and i know allot about Thai law.
