I’m sure it’s just an editorial mis-step but I have, I must confess, been wondering for the past few days – why has The Nation put this article in its sports section?
On the front page it is filed under “Sports” (above articles like FA extends Mascherano ban and Croatian football player dies following injury sustained in match) and the URL (…sport/sport_30070437.php) makes it unmistakable.
My eyes are not playing tricks on me, are they? What is the referee’s decision?
Update 20 April: I’m not wanting to dwell on this…but…the article highlighted here remains the first “Sports” report on The Nation’s website. It must have been there for at least a week already. Has it become a permanent fixture? Or are the relevant webmasters just taking an extended Songkran vacation?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Grasshopper // Apr 17, 2008 at 11:33 am
politics is sport
come gather round the court
come see Surayud become all privy
as you cheer and down a tiger beer
you think they’re looking like they could be back in form this year;
they’re sporting all the same smear rorts,
they lost the shoulder-smacking military-backing
after the lights were ablaring things were happening
you see the media sacarin glistening on their tongues
they’ll be climbing up the rungs to the top of the industry echelons
keep it going on cos they didn’t just come to play they came to win
pros like them know losing is a sin
and when it comes down to handling their balls
these privy boys’ll give it their all from hand to eye
down the line super fine electoral control
along with some underhanded power plays
they’ll be leaving all the opposition in a stunned daze
you find they always have the last laugh
as the crowd roar
for yellow some more
now the crowd goes wild for sufficiency skills
so Samak teaches lessons in regression
but it sure doesn’t pay the bills
what the hell we hitting for?
royal companies keeping score;
don’t ya see Thaksin’s suffered one too many knocks
trying to get those financial statements from the office desk
before the military whacked him for six
then they started pumping out the oh so innocent hits to feed the media blitz
now watch the swollen champs blow the champers on bikini clad
tank straddling chicks
high five and then we pray to our living god;
before we play to the throbbing mob
so if you’re ever on the sideline or sweating in the court
just remember my friends
politics is sport!
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…. Regurgitator’s – Music is Sport butchered shamelessly
2 Dog Lover // Apr 17, 2008 at 12:19 pm
The Nation is just plain screwy these days. Hopefully in its death throes, to be replaced by something approaching a newspaper.
3 Mister Ed // Apr 17, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Probably because the article includes the word “premiership”.
4 Srithanonchai // Apr 17, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Maybe, because Thai politics is a multi-team game these days that needs good sportsmanship not to cause a serious upheaval amongst players, referees (or those who have appointed themselves to these positions), and the spectators? Maybe, we will see rival groups of fans battling it out? The fun that is Thai political sports these days.
5 Lleij Samuel Schwartz // Apr 18, 2008 at 1:41 am
Re: Grasshopper
Hey, thanks for introducing me to Regurgitator! Is it just me or do they sound, at times, like a more sane version of the Polysics?
6 Awzar Thi // Apr 20, 2008 at 1:45 pm
And how about the Nation’s leader comment of April 18: “Appointment of new US ambassador to Asean augers well for future cooperation and action”
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7 Grasshopper // Apr 20, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Awzar Thi, haha a new US ambassador appointed by Bush to ASEAN for drilling a hole in an otherwise stable regional plank. The hole in the plank is to prevent ASEAN crossing the bridge of colonial paranoia to Japan, Korea and China and securing pathways to economic parity. Economic parity! Oh no! What would be the point of borders if everyone was equally wealthy? You guessed it! Crazy fundamentalist ideologies and grudges harbored by well fed people. Or maybe they just want to speed up drilling all that Chevron oil off Sihanoukville? “Auguring for utopia: The Nation since 1971″
LSS, definitely.
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