Western media finally getting the picture
Published on June 30, 2011
****In the June 27 HARDtalk, Stephen Sackur interviewed Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, and in passing dismissed the Oxbridge clique in politics to show that he was above it all when he himself is a Cambridge man.****
But he showed respect and restraint in contrast to the all-out attack in last year's HARDtalk with the prime minister conducted by the latter's fellow Oxonian, Zeinab Badawi, who acted on misinformation from the Bangkok end. However it would have been better if they had confined their skirmishes to the Boat Race.In all I feel there is a turn around in the CNN, BBC and the Western media in general in regard to their perception of this country, that it is not just another Third World country with an oppressive government intent on killing people.
Sumet Jumsai
Bangkok
Bron: TheNation 30-06-2011