charlesfrith

cardholder, on 2010-07-22 09:01:20, said:

@ThaksinKharma

Your paraphrasing of the editorial headline "Thais Have Little Concept Of The Collective Good' changing to 'collective pride' is looking exposed to say the least for any champions of accuracy. Here's why pride isn't so good:

Pride walks hand in hand with pernicious. It strides around mentally goosestepping with its bullet proof jacket while burying young military blood. Pride gets tumescent saluting flags before freedom. Pride is into high fiving Roulette Generals alternatly grovelling to unmeritocratic favour fiefdoms over deaths so cynical that The International Communities collective view hasn't been so appalled since Thaksin endorsed summary executions. Everyone let that slide as did the chance for a fast human rights arrest. Pride .

On the other hand the word good is just good. It's unequivocally single minded. The editorial team used it instead of the pride you prefer and which logically supports your assertion that the article is innocuous? No doubt so were freedom fries until torture and habeus corpus rocked up for the extraordinary renditions party.

It's probably just a coincidence that you chose to have a j'accuse moment, when you least needed to fumble the execution through inaccuracy.

Of course the recent collective action by Bangkokians to clean their streets after the slaughter of Reds goes against this article but nobody every took an intellectual leap banking on The Nation to see the nuance in any discussion. Instead as usual this looks like a private grudge written by the editor about parking space. Most Thais don't drive. How about that for a statistic.

It's staggering to me that the Thai Government apologists fail to recognise the most pernicious act of media bias is the one where government closes down media. This above all else is the target for an open and transparent society not internationally respected media outlets.