Nation Channel website gives false headline about red shirts in Lampang

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Nation Channel website gives false headline about red shirts in Lampang

Thu, 17/12/2009 - 19:58

The Nation Channel headlined a news report ‘Red Shirts in Lampang throw stones at a villager’s house’, while the news was actually about an incident where red shirts surrounded a villager’s house after being stoned by the villager.

The content of the news report, which was posted in the website’s Breaking News section on 16 Dec, told a different story from the headline.

Police from Mae Tha station in Lampang Province were called in to take control of an incident in Mae Wa Village, San Don Kaeo Subdistrict, where over 30 red shirts were surrounding a house, whose owner was believed to have thrown stones at their gathering in the village on 14 Dec, damaging their PA system and injuring many of them. About 150 red shirts had gathered to prepare their protest to oust the Minister of Information and Communications Technology who had been scheduled to come to Tha Nae Village in Mae Tha District on 17 Dec to open the subdistrict’s ICT Centre.

According to the report, the police managed to take control, as the house owner agreed to come out to make apologies and take responsibility. The red shirts then agreed to disperse.

Source:

http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2009/12/27019

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by John Francis Lee (not verified) (127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1, 118.172.70.252) ... Thu, 17/12/2009 - 20:55.

Dead fish come back to life

Dead fish come back to life and complain when wrapped in the pages of The Nation at this point. That publication has fallen below the far-right wingnut, reactionary register, through the fish wrap register, and now to the malicious purveyor of vicious nonsense register below.

And everyone knows it.

I wonder what drove its owners to destroy their own property in the sad and foolish fashion they have done? It used to be a fairly reputable, at least run-of-the-mill "liberal" rag. Now it has lost every shred of credibility it ever had and is obsessively and compulsively groveling in the gutter, befouling itself over and over again with its irrational stream of hate-filled trash.

Why?

by doctor J (not verified) (127.0.0.1 61.90.7.131) ... Sat, 19/12/2009 - 10:28.

Conflict of interest with

Conflict of interest with Thaksin over the 'ITV'.

Plain, simple but true.

by Darren Nelson (not verified) (127.0.0.1 78.147.39.159) ... Fri, 18/12/2009 - 04:17.

I think this is relevent; I

I think this is relevent; I have just read the Bangkok Post online,it reports that 2 Thai Colonels have just been sentanced to life imprisonment for their part in a drugs ring.Well despite this case dating back to 1997 (at which time the 2 were named) the Bangkok Post apparently doesn't think it relevant to publish any photos of the two after they were sentanced.Why would this be I thought.As it would certainly put readers minds at rest to see that finally these sort of guys were actually sharing the space(or lack of)an inhumane "Monkey House"with the rest of the "criminal "community, but then it dawned on me that it could well be another bit of spin from the BP on behalf of Abhisit or whoever.What do you think?Is there any real proof they are locked up?

by sam deedes (not verified) (127.0.0.1 124.121.94.179) ... Fri, 18/12/2009 - 14:11.

"Now it (The Nation) has lost

"Now it (The Nation) has lost every shred of credibility it ever had .....

Why?"

Who are the friends of the new editor?

"spin from the BP on behalf of Abhisit "....

BP is sinking too, just small things so far like you can't send comments direct to a certain dissident columnist any more, but you have to send them direct to BP office.

by Darren Nelson (not verified) (127.0.0.1 92.29.109.84) ... Fri, 18/12/2009 - 20:55.