There’s an email doing the rounds which purports to come from the Manager Media Group (and I have no reason to doubt it). It contains a series of images showing just how lovely the People’s Alliance for (Sufficiency) Democracy really is. Here is a sample:
Oh!!! They have kids!!!! They must be right then!
….. Samak ok pai!!!!!!
3 responses so far ↓
1 amberwaves // Jun 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Andrew is going soft. I’ve seen the e-mail as well, and it is an uncharacteristically inept attempt to manipulate the (mostly Western) media (text below). Points for chutzpah, though, considering the amount of uncritical coverage the PAD gets in the Thai media.
—–Original Message—–
From: Ladawan Pittayapiboon (Wan)
[mailto:(XXX)@manager.co.th]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:36 PM
To: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); UNESCO & Communication and Information; Overseas Press Club of America; Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia-Pacific; Asia-Inc.; The Wall Street Journal Asia; TV11 News and AsiaWorks Television / Karuna Buakamsri; BBC; Asahi Shimbun (Japan); FCCT; The Straits Times; Foreign Correspondent’s Club Hong Kong; Pee Mod
Subject: the truth at rally ground
Dear Sirs,
The attached photos show you something not reported by the government. Will
the government still want to disperse them ?
Thank you for your kind attention.
Best
Ladawan Pittayapiboon (Wan)
Executive Secretary
Tel. 662 (XXX) x 1200
Fax. 662 (XXX)
Manager Media Group Co., Ltd. / Thaiday Dot Com Co., Ltd.
102/1 Pra-arthit Road, Chanasongkram, Pranakorn,
Bangkok 10200 THAILAND
2 Leif Jonsson // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:21 am
seen from very far away (in the US), the imagery suggests that we are squarely post-Thaksin, that what we now have is an emerging Thai-Rak-Thai-Na-Rak party. Will they revise the prostitution, too?
3 fall // Jun 4, 2008 at 11:46 pm
So when tension of confrontation increase and government threaten to use force, they bring in woman and children… nice strategy, very commendable…
PS – remind me of that prank pic of baby with bomb belt… innocent n harmless…
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