Remember this photo and the photoshop scam anyone?

**dirtydog** · 19-06-2009, 05:50 PM

PHOTO OF PAD MAN GRABBING AND DRAGGING RED-SHIRT WOMAN BY HER HAIR WINS YEAR’S BEST PHOTO

Despite its wrong caption, Thai Rath’s photo of a former PAD guard grabbing the hair of a red-shirt woman and dragging her along the road during the military crackdown in April has won the Best Photo of the Year Award from the Mass Media Photographers Association of Thailand (MPA).

The MPA President explained it won because it is so vividly emotional that no description is necessary. Abhisit will preside over the ceremony on June 18.

On June 14, the MPA announced the results of its 13th annual contest (2008-2009). For this year, 600 photos and 46 television news clips were submitted to the contest which offered 35 prizes of about 700,000 baht in total.

The Best Photo of the Year went to the photo titled ‘Intolerable’ which captured the moment when a former yellow-shirt guard Kaweekrai Chokepatthanakasemsuk grabbed the hair of a red-shirt woman Mintra Soros, dragging her along Ratchaprarob Road on April 13 after she had reportedly reviled soldiers who were dispersing the red-shirt demonstrators. The photo was taken by Thai Rath’s crime reporter Prasith Niwesthong who will receive the King’s Cup together with a prize of 100,000 baht.

MPA President Wichai Walaphol explained that the jury decided to award the prize because the photo was outstanding and complete in terms of photographical composition captured during the melee. It can be seen in the photo that there were many photographers on the scene, but the photographer who took this photo stood in a particular spot, so he could take this unique picture. This photo is so emotionally descriptive that no description is necessary. The jurists voted for it unanimously, he said.

Pattaya Daily News

**dirtydog** · 19-06-2009, 05:51 PM

Should be retitled "Journalist grabs Thai womens hair so his mate can take a picture and photoshop the fok out of it"

**Mid** · 19-06-2009, 05:54 PM

Thai journalism : never let the truth get in the road of a story ....................

Bangkok Pundit: Photo of the Year UPDATE:

News from Thailand, the media and the political crisis. The Bangkok Bugle.: PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE WINS BEST PHOTO

**dirtydog** · 19-06-2009, 05:56 PM

Damn, I thought I was the first to remember

oh well it should be a bit embarrassing to the Thai media as it seems to be all over the net

**Mid** · 19-06-2009, 06:14 PM

oh well it should

won't , they'll think it's great .

see the Bkk Post's Twitter episode for confirmation ....................

**English Noodles** · 19-06-2009, 07:00 PM

She spat in the guys face before that.

**Rural Surin** · 19-06-2009, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

Thai journalism : never let the truth get in the road of a story ....................

Bangkok Pundit: Photo of the Year UPDATE:

News from Thailand, the media and the political crisis. The Bangkok Bugle.: PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE WINS BEST PHOTO

Should we expect anything less from the mainstream establishment-based media?

**dirtydog** · 19-06-2009, 07:09 PM

^^Don't blame her, probably realised what scum he was.

**baldrick** · 20-06-2009, 12:51 AM

attend a protest march in high heels ??

deserves to be caught in the filter of the gene pool

**kmart** · 20-06-2009, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

attend a protest march in high heels ??

deserves to be caught in the filter of the gene pool

Full make-up and heels.

D'ya think she went out to create a bit of drama..?

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that photo having her hair pulled, jeans down in a doggy position is just the tiniest bit... horny?

**dirtydog** · 20-06-2009, 09:19 AM

^Probably just you.

**kmart** · 20-06-2009, 10:28 AM

I'll get me coat..

**dirtydog** · 20-06-2009, 11:03 AM

^And David Carridine, although he's dead now

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

She spat in the guys face before that.

Allegedly, no proof of that Can't say I'd blame her though, the guy has an eminently spittable and punchable face:

.

Punchable attitude too.

‘I dare you [red shirts] to find me to take revenge for that woman. […] Damn! I feel overjoyed to see that the woman, instead of getting sympathy from society, was exploited by the opposition, and was despised, instead of me alone. Stupid woman! 555.’

And seems to be bragging that as well as being a grade-A twat he's also attempted murder.

‘I have done a lot more to you folks than what you’ve seen when I pulled the ‘grass’ on the woman’s head, but it just has not made the news, like when you gathered at the national stadium, I sniped at you people when you were on your way home. I regret that I missed the targets. I always have future plans. I think I alone can make a lot of trouble for many of you'

Quotes from Photo of PAD man grabbing and dragging red-shirt woman by her hair wins Yearâ€™s Best Photo award | Prachatai English

Another fine upstanding PAD hero

**dirtydog** · 20-06-2009, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Another fine upstanding Thai photo journalist

Corrected for you Paddy.

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

attend a protest march in high heels ??

deserves to be caught in the filter of the gene pool

But, but, why would she do that? The media told us they were violent thugs bent on incinerating Bangkok, eating the Royal family and turning Thailand into a Marxist-Isaanist dictatorship run by a Soviet of Lao Kha crazed motosai jockeys. Why wear high heels if that's your agenda? It's almost as if people were trying to demonstrate peacefully, got set up, attacked, and shafted, then lied about by a compliant local media which was then believed by the usual Thai and foreign bubbleheads.

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Another fine upstanding Thai photo journalist

Corrected for you Paddy.

He wasn't a photo journalist, you dim brit twat

**dirtydog** · 20-06-2009, 11:21 AM

http://www.prachatai.com/english/sit...s/u3/real2.jpg

**baldrick** · 20-06-2009, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

But, but, why would she do that?

gets all wet at the thought of a bit of the rough trade ?

has been prepared for reality outside the home by Thai docu soap operas ?

perceives herself as a Che Guevara jungle veteran ?

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by DrB0b

But, but, why would she do that?

perceives herself as a Che Guevara jungle veteran ?

Che wore high-heels

My idol is tarnished

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

http://www.prachatai.com/english/sit...s/u3/real2.jpg

He owns a camera and a bag, so do I and I'm not a photojournalist. He's just one of panthamit's nutjobs. He's no more a real photojournalist than you are Queen of the fairies.

**dirtydog** · 20-06-2009, 02:14 PM

So what does he do for a living to be able to afford camera gear in Thailand then Dr Knob?

**baldrick** · 20-06-2009, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by pommygit

So what does he do for a living to be able to afford camera gear in Thailand then Dr Knob?

Originally Posted by bobbles

nutjobs

ask butterfly

**DrB0b** · 20-06-2009, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

So what does he do for a living to be able to afford camera gear in Thailand then Dr Knob?

Dunno. Do you have to be a photojournalist to afford camera gear? My next door neighbour's a drug dealer and he's got camera gear too, do you think he's secretly a photojournalist but too ashamed to admit it?

This guy's well known, he's been interviewed lots of times, he has a couple of blogs and he posts regularly on PAD sites. He and other people talk about who he is and what he does (though nobody's pointed out yet that he looks like a fckn Iranian and drawn the obvious conclusions). No matter how much you want to insist on it he's not a photojournalist, there's no doubt about it. If you read something other than the Pattaya Daily News and the "What's that Rash on my Knob?" blog you'd know that too.

**English Noodles** · 20-06-2009, 07:42 PM

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