Thread: Your opinion about the Bangkok Post

The Bangkok Post is totally biased in my view on certain subjects. It's not worth posting an opinion there. If you are interested I noticed the Bangcockpost dot com was available if you want to create a site to mock the Bangkok Poop. As much as I hate the paper for its political views and lack of serious journalists working for it, I do have to check it at times as there are few alternatives.

Because Thailand's journalists are very biased or cowardly and the warped yellows bumbling through the streets are willing to keep information away from people should they once again get control with their military cohorts, there is an opportunity for a new newspaper based abroad which could provide a more objective view of what is happening in LOS.

I see the Bangkok Post and the Nation as equals in pushing lies through ignoring stories and pushing others. Their slogans should be The truth will not set you free!

10 years ago when I first got here I found it interesting and refreshing.

It got very censored around 2009-2010 and since then I have never bought it. Read it if its at a cafe where I'm eating - but it's like one of those local free newspapers you get in the UK really.

I use google for news - change the settings and you have every newspaper pretty much at your fingertips for free

Only buy it two days a week, Saturday and Sunday. Great cryptic crossword on saturday, and two reasonable straight clue ones on Sunday.

The rest of the newspaper is kept for the dog to pee on.

^.....

Yes it's biased but it's still worth a read.....

Let's take today...reading between the lines.....:

A shutdown plan too far
A shutdown plan too far | Bangkok Post: opinion

But his plan to "shut down Bangkok" next week is a step too far. It puts his great mass uprising on a dangerous trail that risks fringe violence, harms ordinary people and once again punctures the country's image.


The tactic is a sign that Mr Suthep's movement has lost focus.


Mr Suthep has falsely promised "total victory" on several occasions. The thousands of faces watching his nightly speeches exclude roughly equal numbers of Bangkokians who do not approve of either his...

No figures of protest numbers (as others have pointed out)....Tens of thousands rather than millions so why is he being allowed to get away with it?

On cue......

The military holds the key to suthep's victory _ or defeat

The military holds the key to suthep's victory _ or defeat | Bangkok Post: opinion

Originally Posted by Troy

The military holds the key to suthep's victory _ or defeat

The military holds the key to suthep's victory _ or defeat | Bangkok Post: opinion

seem to recall reading somewhere that the military just happens to be moving tanks and heavy equipment into bangkok - for a pre-planned parade.

Still, probably pretty convenient to have them more - close to hand.....

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Only buy it two days a week, Saturday and Sunday. Great cryptic crossword on saturday, and two reasonable straight clue ones on Sunday.

The rest of the newspaper is kept for the dog to pee on.

Must be a mongrel, up his standards.

CMPO tells media not to provoke unrest

The Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) is to invite editors of selected media to discuss and make clear that their reports should not provoke unrest, the CMPO's secretary Paradorn Pattanatabut said Wednesday.

He did not reveal which media would be invited. His statement came a day after the government announced a state of an emergency in Bangkok and the surrounding areas to deal with the ongoing antigovernment protests led by former Democrat MP Suthep Thaugsuban.

"We should have a similar understanding that news reports are not a source of provocation and instigation that could lead to chaos and unrest," he said.

CMPO tells media not to provoke unrest - The Nation

The mailbag has their beloved pets. It is generally the same idiots featured their beating their tired drums. Other than that the BK Post makes for a good liner for a bird cage.

I had my first Post subscription over 25 years ago on Samui, it came 2 days after publication. Kept it up for 24 and a 1/2 years. I cancelled it 5 months ago. No content, biased, and just a very short read. It had gone from up to an hour with the 3 sections, down to 20 minutes maximum in the new format. The only thing I miss is some of the Op Eds, and Letters. Three or four time a year I could get a rant in.

Understand the history behind the BKK Post.
Why it gave birth - for/by who.

Your answers are solved.
You don't have to be too much of a genius or even a keen observer as to know why it exist.

the posts thai news is biased, abbreviated and controlled for the foreign market it is aimed at, and the foreign stories are just cut and pastes from the agencies.

not enough in the way of comment or investigation, although the comment pieces have improved lately, voranai makes sense to me, i wish though that they would let him off the leash a bit. sadly there are lines here that cant be crossed.

for westerners used to hard hitting and no holds barred journalism its all a bit of a bland beige disappointment.

i read it online or in the coffee shops and pubs, its grossly overpriced for what it is.

the best bits are the crossword, sudoko and the target word game, along with the monty cartoon strip.

the nation is an even poorer rag.

with so much better quality journalism available free and online, these redundant rags cant go on for much longer surely.

Something that always bothered me is that the Shinawatra clan doesn't try to build a counterpart paper in english.

Guys in the bar used to write to the letters page under names like Don K Felcher and Kamel Toe.

Was a laugh when people used to reply.

Dear Mr Felcher or Mr Toe...

Originally Posted by KimDidMeGood

Something that always bothered me is that the Shinawatra clan doesn't try to build a counterpart paper in english.

I have always asked myself the same question.

I don't (can't) read the local press but it seems the government doesn't make any effort to explain its policies and to defend its action with the Bangkok middle class. There are a lot of groundless accusations that are regularly publicized by the press controlled by the opposition. The opposition is also very present and organized in the social media, even in the foreign forums (I've my doubts about the motives of a number of recent obviously Thai TV posters).

Why is the government totally absent here and why people who want to get some counter arguments to the yellow propaganda have to look in the foreign press to get them ?

Originally Posted by KimDidMeGood

Something that always bothered me is that the Shinawatra clan doesn't try to build a counterpart paper in english.

Yes, just like the Thai language newspapers of opposition.

The fact that a biased rag like the BPaste can exist in Thailand, while openly supporting acts of sedition and treason vs the government, rather puts the lie to the nonsense that the press sector is persecuted here. (a certain press sector is persecuted btw, but that is because of the elephant in the room) It's bias is well known and hardly concealed- so suffice to say it is better that it is free to exist and publish mostly drivel, than exist in a country where there is no free press and it would be shut down.

Originally Posted by KimDidMeGood

Something that always bothered me is that the Shinawatra clan doesn't try to build a counterpart paper in english.

Because the views of the foreigners in Thailand are simply not worth courting.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Because the views of the foreigners in Thailand are simply not worth courting.

In a nutshell.

Originally Posted by aging one

I had my first Post subscription over 25 years ago on Samui, it came 2 days after publication. Kept it up for 24 and a 1/2 years. I cancelled it 5 months ago. No content, biased, and just a very short read. It had gone from up to an hour with the 3 sections, down to 20 minutes maximum in the new format. The only thing I miss is some of the Op Eds, and Letters. Three or four time a year I could get a rant in.

How about that Night Owl guy who used to have a column? When computers & email came along, put him out of business. Used to crawl the bars of Pat Pong with his Thai wife to get stories on decadent farang mongers.

The Bangkok Post is shit, it has been like that for the last 10 years, since it was taken by some Thai HiSo to tone it down and the Editor and writers stopped being English speaking native journalists

The sports pages suck, golf, tennis, football. Never cared for Thai politics more than for those of an ant hive. The Bangkok Post is good value if you need many pages of paper to clean windows, especially on the days it comes with adendas for economy, cars etc.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by aging one

I had my first Post subscription over 25 years ago on Samui, it came 2 days after publication. Kept it up for 24 and a 1/2 years. I cancelled it 5 months ago. No content, biased, and just a very short read. It had gone from up to an hour with the 3 sections, down to 20 minutes maximum in the new format. The only thing I miss is some of the Op Eds, and Letters. Three or four time a year I could get a rant in.

How about that Night Owl guy who used to have a column? When computers & email came along, put him out of business. Used to crawl the bars of Pat Pong with his Thai wife to get stories on decadent farang mongers.

Bernard Trink - but I don't give a hoot.