for some reasons, foreign journalist are more sexy than Thai journalist
- By Tammy, Thai Intel’s humanity journalist
Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck, yestrday, accepted request from the global newspaper association to host its global annual meeting in Thailand next year.
The event, will spot-light Thailand, with about 3,000-5,000 global journalist from newspaper from around the world converging in Thailand.
But the spot-light, might also be on Thailand’s newspapers-as clearly, perhaps, some Thai newspaper people will address the meerting.
Yet, it is not really news, that Thai newspaper journalists have very little moral and ethical standard, in going low and dirty to atttack someone they hate-like many Thai newspaper hate Yingluck.
- Consider the following:
Recently, Thailand‘s prime minister, Yingkuck, took a break from Parliament, citing a secret meeting, and went to the Four seasons Hotel.
After that, Yingluck was accused and attacked by the Democrat Party, of having a love affair, in what many neutral observers said the attack was quote: “As low and dirty as it gets.” As Thai Intel have reported, several Democrat Party MPs, used the word, “Sperm Fluid” in their attack of Yingluck.
Yingluck’s opposition, however, under-estimated the reaction of that very nasty attack, and the public opinion tide began to turn against Yingluck’s antagonist-with even pro-Democrat Party media personality such as Somkiat Onvimol, posting on Facebook of his disgust at the Democrat Party.
And Thailand’s women groups, began to express outraged-at the attack.
Worse for Yingluck’s antagonist, one after another businessmen began to come out and said they were part of a group of people who went to see Yingluck at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Clearly, at this point in the news thread, the news began to flow in favor of Yingluck.
But lets back-track a little. At the height of that attack on Yingluck’s character, last week, the Green Group lodge with the Thai parliament’s Ombudsman, to investigate Yingluck’s behavior, at going to the Four Seasons Hotel, for breaking Parliament moral and ethical codes.
And since last week, the ombudsman said they accepted the case-and it became news, but not big news.
But lets fast forward to last Sunday and Monday, when the news flow on this attack on Yingluck was going in favor of Yingluck, as the outraged against those “Low and Dirty” accusations and news of Yingluck meeting many businessmen hit the news flow.
The reaction of many Thai journalist of that possitive news flow in Yingluck’s favor?
The reaction is, some of Thailand’s news organizations, again many are highly anti-Yingluck, began to report that the ombudsman had accepted the case on Yingluck-an old news.
And in these reports, cited no source and gave no date-and just said that, quote: “ombudsman accepts the case to investigate Yingluck.”
What followed is that from those few media that re-hashed old news, in an attempt to blunt the news flow that is going in Yingluck’s favor-many of Thailand’s news organization, like Bangkok Post, known as an institution in Thailand, got inticed and curious-caught the re-hash fever.
So the result, on many of Thailand’s newspaper, on the front page-as women’s group were out-raged at the dirty attack on Yingluck to the point that even pro-Democrat Party people were criticizing the Democrat Party and when news that Yingluck went to meet a group of business people and not to have an affair became clear-on the front pages of newspaper, like at Bangkok Post, the “Very Big News” is that ombudsman investigate Yingluck.
- The following is from Bangkok Post:
PM urged to clarify hotel meet
Published: 22/02/2012 at 08:41 AM
Newspaper section: News
The Office of the Ombudsman has decided that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra‘s decision to skip a parliamentary session for a private meeting with a group of business people poses concerns about her ethics.
Staff of the Four Seasons Hotel block Pheu Thai PartyMP Pracha Prasopdee, centre, in front of the hotel yesterday.He planned to lead reporters to inspect the seventh floor of the hotelwherePrime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra held a private meeting with businessmen instead of attending a House session. SOMCHAI POOMLARD
Ombudsman chairwoman Panit Nitithanprapas said yesterday the office has accepted a petition by the Green Political Group to look into the prime minister’s use of official time for private business that the group says has remained unexplained to the public.
On Feb 8, Ms Yingluck skipped a House session to attend a meeting classified as secret with Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong and a group of businessmen including Srettha Thavisin, president of property developer Sansiri Plc.
The meeting has drawn criticism from members of the opposition. They said it was inappropriate for the premier to meet in secrecy with a select group of business people. Since the Shinawatra family also owns property developer SC Asset, such a meeting could pose a conflict of interest, the opposition said.
Mrs Panit said the ombudsman’s office had ruled that the petition concerns the ethics of Ms Yingluck as a political officer and member of parliament.
She has sent a letter asking Ms Yingluck to clarify the matter in 30 days.
Meanwhile, a Pheu Thai MP’s attempt to dispel questions over the propriety of the meeting between Ms Yingluck and businessmen at the Four Seasons Hotel fell apart yesterday when the hotel denied him and a group of reporters entry.
Pracha Prasopdee took a group of 60 reporters to the hotel on Ratchadamri Road, intending to show them the seventh floor where the meeting took place.
However, in the event, he and his group were allowed only as far as the hotel’s downstairs lobby. The hotel’s staff refused to let the reporters in, saying Mr Pracha, an MP for Samut Prakan, should have made a request in advance.
Undaunted, Mr Pracha asked to check in to a room on that floor, which houses suites and an executive club. Four Seasons staff allowed only one reporter to follow Mr Pracha into the hotel. Once inside, however, Mr Pracha was informed the seventh floor was fully booked.
Eventually, Mr Pracha’s fact-finding mission ended up at the hotel’s buffet table where he spent about one and a half hours discussing details of the hotel’s seventh floor plan with its staff.
Mr Pracha said the trip to the Four Seasons was his own idea. He wanted to dispel allegations of conflicts of interest dogging the prime minister.
He said there was nothing unseemly about Ms Yingluck’s meeting because business people were able to give her information that was useful in running the country.
“The PM can meet anyone, anywhere, as long as it is not against law and order,” Mr Pracha said.
Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said his party still has suspicions the prime minister and her audience were up to no good.
Since the government has never declared which areas will be designated floodways or water retention areas under its flood prevention plan, questions could be asked whether it was trying to find areas of mutual interest with the businessmen.
He said the party will also keep a close watch on new land valuations that take effect in the middle of this year.
In December, the Treasury Department announced new land values that were supposed to take effect on Jan 1.
Land valuations increased an average of 20% nationwide, though the appraisals failed to take into account the impact of last year’s floods, Treasury Department director-general Naris Chaiyasoot said.
The Land Department asked for the valuations to be delayed by a year to ease the burden on flood victims who may have to pay higher taxes. The land appraisal committee chaired by interior permanent secretary Pranai Suwanrath allowed a six-month postponement.
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