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2B's Thai Media Project is an
attempt to survey what most of the population are
reading in newspapers. Like the rest of 2Bangkok.com,
we hope it will ideally be "Thai news you can't
find anywhere else" (in English).
The English-language papers, The Nation and
the Bangkok Post reach a very, very small
audience. While they cover local news better than
they did in the past, both are locked into narrow
perspectives and edit news according to what is
assumed to be interesting to their English-reading
audience.
You can sniff at a sensational paper like ThaiRath,
but compare the English-language papers' daily circulation
of around 50,000 each with ThaiRath's 1,000,000.
Clearly ThaiRath is influencing a lot more
people in the Thai world and 2Bangkok.com will document
that.
Besides ThaiRath, we have picked the leading
'serious' daily Matichon (which has a circulation
of around 400,000 daily and takes an anti-government
line) and Thaipost, which sometimes has rabid,
news-of-the-moment stories that reflect the public
tone. I have put comments on the stories in brackets
[ ]. - Ron Morris, 2Bangkok.com Editor
2005
(Source: Thai Post)
Editorial cartoon: Thai
Post - December
13, 2005
Editorial cartoon that says: The foreigner investors
smell the odor of being broke (having no money).
(Thai Post can be rabidly antigovernment.)
Prachachatturakij
editorial: What is the plan to protect flood that
reoccur from North to South?
- December 2, 2005
Komchadluek
editorial: A question that has no answer
- December 1, 2005
Book
Review: The impurity of protest
Matichon
editorial: Quality of a Minister
- November 17, 2005
Thairath
editorial: To solve or make problems?
- November 12, 2005
Matichon
editorial: Thai-style working
- November 14, 2005
Khao Sod
editorial: Following the right way
- November 11, 2005
Matichon
editorial: The accusation about a secret prison
and criticism of Matichon
- November 8 2005
Thairath
editorial: Worry that the government is insolvent
- November 3, 2005
Thairath
editorial: The signal that warns the government
- November 2, 2005
Survey
of the Thai-language press: the by-elections
- November 1, 2005
Thairath
editorial: Freedom of the press "plummets into
a gorge" - October
28, 2005
Thairath
editorial: The gang to exploit poor people
- October 13, 2005
Thairath
editorial: Dialogue is not bad -
October 12, 2005
Matichon
editorial: Don’t trade in one dimension
- October 5, 2005
Matichon
editorial: Must talk about "The Opportunity"
- October 3, 2005
The constitution is
dead? - editorial of
Thairath, September 28, 2005
Thai media
and the different truth - the unreported riot - editorial translated
from Prachachat, September 27, 2005
Reactions
to Thaksin's 'X' -
August 27, 2005
Thai press
reaction to the new cabinet from Thairath,
Khaosod, Matichon and Manager:
'haew and bourbok selling out'
- August 6, 2005
Thaksin
Dictionary - June 21,
2005
The
end of a dayweekly
- June 17, 2005
War
and Peace at the Southern Border
- April 30, 2005
Chapter summaries from the Thai-language War
and Peace at the Southern Border by Dr Rung
Kaewdaeng, Deputy Education Minister. This is
the book that Democrat leader Abisit Vejjajiva
suggested that PM Thaksin should read...
The
Poojadkuan columns in Manager
From the Thai-language press:
Red light
areas in Bangkok in olden days
2005
Editorial: Quash corruption--not
duty - translated and summarized from Matichon,
July 29, 2005
Editorial: Prevent is better
than mending - translated
and summarized from Matichon, July 27, 2005
Editorial: 'Go to the right
way' - translated and summarized from Thairath,
July 25, 2005
July 4 - Baby drop daily/falling
off the balcony
June 15-17
- Mr. Prai Pattano, the Lord Mayor of Haddyai, Songkhla
won on four lottery tickets and won 32 million baht.
June 14 - Bangkok does
not agree to divide the area of Kwaeng Ladkrabang
and Kwaeng Tapyao
June 10 - The senators
who do not accept the government draft.
June 9 - Malaria still
spreads seriously in many places.
June 8 - 204,785 baht
that an officer embezzled
June 6-7 - She also had
a new boyfriend who is a policeman...
June 1-3 - Followers
of Lung Por Pool win the lottery with his age/Thai
Rak Thai‘s people counter that Thirayuth is
only a marketing man
May 30
- ...cut her husband’s penis off while he was
sleeping.
May 24-27 - When the
abbot of Wat Phailom died on Visakhabucha day all
the lottery tickets in the temple sold well/ "controversial
actions" at Wat Phrakeo
May 23 - Luang Por Pool
Attarakkho, the 94-year-old abbot of Wat Phailom,
Nakornprathom, died
May 13 - Dengue fever
has taken 14 people’s lives and made 7215 ill.
May 12 - Thaksin is upset
and cries out that the media are dishonoring the
government
April 28
- Tesco Lotus allegedly the store ordered workers
to work on holidays without getting payment.
April 27 - He counters
that it is not true that Muslims are second class
citizens.
April 26 - His friend
said that day Mr. Aek had a 'black face.'
April 25 - Banharn failed
because people lose the faith in him, not becuase
of a 'big rain.'
April 22 - Drug dealers
shot dead
April 21 - “Factors
related to refraining from sex in female youth”
April 20 - Special helmets/Songkran
blessings
April 19 - Replacing
the Giant Swing
April 13 - The new year:
'riding a donkey and eating milk and butter'
April 8 - “Horoscope
of the Nation: Year of the Rooster”
April
7 - A look at Thaksin's
cabinet 2/1 - "where we want to go"
April 7 - Editorial:
Government Efficiency
April 6 - Stop the terrorists
from expanding
March 31
- Worms/runaway taxi driver/Kanjanaburi dam won't
break
March 30 - 50-year-old
villager who eats the flesh of dead bodies burnt
at the cemetery
March 29 - On April 10,
the government will organize a big merit ceremony
for the country.
March 25 - Man believes
his family will steal his kidney
March 23-24 - Hail storm
and tornado/126 Esarn members of Parliament gather
to be a 'group of sticky rice'
March 22 - A bloody day
March 21 - Ban Laem Tukkae,
a tsunami-impacted fishermen's village, declared
it would not permit tourists to visit.
March 17 - Leech!
March 15 - Who moved
the date trees?
March 14 - ...shot himself
at his workplace because of losing his new mobile
phone/ Feng Shui at the Ministry of Agriculture
March 12 - 'Destroy world
day'
March 11 - 27 nauseous
and vomiting students
March 8-9 - People became
diseased from a mercury toxin substance in a gold
digging area
March 2-3 - Degree curriculum
based on local Intelligence/She put a necklace with
a portrait of King Rama V on the girl
March 1 - Two guys fight
to win one charming widow/Headless farang ghost
February
28 - She tried to fight, but was hit by an electric
mosquito net and soda bottle
February 25 - Resisting
the concession of Pong Mountain to make a mine for
Sintanan Company
February 24 - Inappropriate
behavior of students
February 21 - Arab websites
show the Takbai event video for the first time
February 18 - The '9th
Group' is actually is the arms and legs of Suriya
and Somsak.
February 16 - Danger
from toxics in the sweets case
February 14 - Military
and police intimidate TRT voters in the South?
February 8 - Astrologers
foretell the future of Thaksin--it's not good
February 7 - Party leaders
react to the election
February 3 - An officer
and DJ were punched by a group of 20 drunken men
February 1 - New sex
drug/kidnapped new born
January
28 - People whose ID cards are held by loan
sharks get new ones made to vote
January 27 - Gambling
house raid
January 25-26 - Protection
requested for rape accuser
January 24 - Between
the devil and the deep blue sea!/computer game addict/ThaiPost
front page
January 21 - Taxi thieves
crash
A survey of
the Thai-language political quarterly
Fah Diaw Kan and its main editorial.
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2004
Bangkok
Biz News - "Say goodbye to the cruel monkey
year!" - Thai-language newspapers' December
31 editions
December 27- December 31
- Feng shui and the Democrats
December 26-January 1 - Tsunami-related headlines
for these dates are contained in the tsunami
newsfeed
December 22 - Bahharn
neglected?
December 21 - Cadmium
contamination at Phadaeng Industry Mine company
December 19 - Punched
by a monk
December 17 - More beer
bar areas to be investigated/check the Donmuang
TRT candidate/ “hi-so
junior”
December 16 - Sirivipa
Krajangsung, ex-moviestar, shot
December 14-15 - A
tale of two newspapers: Beer bar demolition/no
crabs for somtum boo
December 13 - The
youth of Thailand are champions of whisky drinking
December 10 - “Moei
Khab” on the grass in Doi Intanon and Doi Angkhang
December 9 - Where
frost is front page news
December 8 - Jobs for
the southern provinces
December 6-7 - Two die
from smoke inhalation
December 3 - Oke's
mobile fun park
December 2 -
C.P. Company astrologer predicts the next government/Tom-Dee
murder
December 1 - Matichon
punished for the sexual harassment news against
Sanant
November 29-30 - Skewered
by a sharp iron
November 26 - 200
illicit logs bob up to the surface/taxi driver
gets slapped
November 25 - Singapore
uses Udon Thani airport for training
November 23 - Candidates
for the upcoming election
November 22 - Monks with
amphetamines in their rectums
November 19 - Germany
company J.K. Defense Industrial to set up
weapon factory
November 16-17 - Actors
steal cars/ Editorial: The Professional
November 15 - New pickup
truck stolen even though the steering
wheel was removed and and the brake was locked
November 12 - Merit making
not related to the victims killed
in the south/Girl falls off bus
November 11 - Yasotorn
government to be monitored/Editorial: The
manhandled and forgotten
November 10 - Man falls
off building/Worry over Christian booklet
November 8-9 - Teacher
shot in front of student/Chinese swordfight over
dog meat
November 5 - “Vake
Malaengsab” showed how to eat live cockroaches
November 4 - Editorial:
Participation-Non-violence/Senate fight:
"Strong bad smell around
the world!"
November 3 - Three
sex-mad students drown girl/Teacher orders
49 students to hit one student
on the head
November 2 - Black
magic flags buried with the names of TRT MPs
November 1 - Editorial:
Is it the right way?/Retort to Malaysia
October 27-29 - TRT MPs
smile happily because of extra money for the election/ Thai
Post editorial: The riot
October 26 - A
cruel monk shot three people/ Lotus
Superstore strip searches
October 25 - After
drinking whiskey and gambling and quarreling, the
head of the gambling house was punched in the face
October 22 - It is assumed
he was accidentally shocked at the construction
site.
October 21 - Terrorists
in the South kill longan trees by cutting the stem
and pouring gas into it to make it die.
October 20 -
Abortions average 1,000 per day/A
new trend for Thai gays
October 19 - The
old lady who won 22 million baht in the lottery
October 18 - Recently
he felt affection for a beautiful widow in the village
who is charming to other men also.
October 15 - His
tongue got a tetanus infection and he cannot taste
anymore.
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October
14 & The
look of two newspapers - comparing
Kom Chad Luek and
The Nation
October 13 -
The latest trend
in youth behavior in Chaiyapoom province
is to have a big penis/there is a group
wanting to overthrow Thaksin
October 12 -
A
young guy is addicted to computer games,
but has no money so he robbed Bangkok Bank
October 11 -
Short,
fat, and old caddies
October 8 - Falling
into a boiling pot of tuna
October 7 -
'Oil smuggling mafia kills police in the
south'
October 5 - After
making them take off their jeans, they gave
the victim shorts to wear
October 4 - The
student who found a finger in minced pork
is very upset.
October 1 - Democrat
Party raps the government drivel of talking
about a coup |
(Photo: 2Bangkok.com) |
September 30 - Thaksin
is tense about the coup news/SMS sex
September 29 - Woman
gets 25 years for killing infant
September 28 - Looking
for sex with the telephone
September 27 - A tale
of two newspapers: The threatening billboard
September 24 - Scalding
at Oishi
September 23 - Mother
and daughter drink pesticide.
September 22 - Attacking
the Chamlong Foundation
September 21 - Kroo
Bala set up himself to be a god of mountains and
a reborn person.
September 20 - Editorial:
The death of the judge, the failure of the government/ The
owner of the rottweiler [that mauled a boy] is defiant.
September 19 - An
elephant named “Kumpai” gives birth to
a baby weighing 100 kgs.
September 18 - Making
women in Thailand lose their reputation/New structure
of police force: “No belly” |
