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Dear Sirs/Madams,
As a first-rate global news agency, CNN has an inherent professional duty to deliver all sides of the truth to the public who have faithfully and sincerely placed their trust and reliance in you. Your network, by its longtime transnational presence and extensive reach, has been put in a position of trust and care; CNN's journalists, reporters, and researchers have a collective responsibility to follow the journalist's code and ethicsto deliver and present facts from all facets of the story, not merely one-sided, shallow and sensational half-truths. The magnitude of harm or potential extent of damage that erroneous and fallacious news reporting can cause to (and exacerbate), not only a country's internal state of affairs, economic well-being, and general international perception, but also the real lives and livelihood of the innocent and voiceless people of that nation, is enormous. CNN should not negligently discard its duty of care by reporting one-sided or unverified facts and distorted truths drawn from superficial research, or display/distribute biased images which capture only one side of the actual event.Recently, CNN Thailand correspondents Dan Rivers and Sarah Snider have made me seriously reconsider your agency as a source for reliable and accurate, unbiased news. As of this writing, thousands of CNN's viewers have already begun to question the accuracy and dependability of its reporting as regards events in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, in addition to Bangkok.
Rivers and Snider have not done their best under these life-threatening circumstances because many other foreign correspondents have done better. All of Rivers' and Sniders' quotes and statements seem to have been solely taken from the anti-government protest leaders or their sympathisers. Yet, all details about the government's position have come from secondary resources. No direct interviews with government officials have been shown; no interviews or witness statements from Bangkok residents or civilians unaffiliated with the protesters, particularly those who have been harassed by or suffered at the hands of the protesters, have been circulated.
Why the discrepancy? Why the failure to report all of the government's previous numerous attempts to negotiate or invitation to the protesters to go home? Why no broadcasts shown of the myriad ways the red protesters have terrorised and harmed innocent civilians by burning their shops, enclosing burning tyres around apartment buildings, shooting glass marbles at civilians, attacking civilians in their cars, and worst of all, obstructing paramedics and ambulances carrying civilians injured by grenade blasts during the Silom incident of April 24, thereby resulting in the sole civilian casualty? The entire timeline of events that have forced the government to take this difficult stance has been hugely and callously ignored in deference to the red 'underdogs'.
Rivers and Snider's choice of sensational vocabulary and terminology in every newscast, and choice of images to broadcast, has resulted in law-abiding soldiers and the heavily-pressured Thai government being painted in a negative, harsh and oppressive light, whereas the genuinely violent and law-breaking arm of the anti-government protesters - who are directly responsible for overt acts of aggression not only against soldiers but also against unarmed civilians and law-abiding apolitical residents (and whose actions under American law would by now be classified as terrorist activities) - are portrayed as righteous freedom fighters deserving of worldwide sympathy and support. This has misled the various international human rights watchdogs to believe that the Thai government is sending trigger-happy soldiers out to ruthlessly murder unarmed civilians without cause.
As a current resident of war zone Bangkok who has experienced the effect of the red protests firsthand and is living in a state of constant terror and anxiety as to whether her family, friends and home will get bombed or attacked by the hardcore anti-government paramilitary forces - I appeal to CNN's professional integrity to critically investigate and scrutinise the misinformed news reporting of your above-named correspondents. If they are incapable of obtaining genuine, authentic facts from any other source except the red protest leaders and red-sympathising Thai translators or acquaintances, or from fellow non-Thai-speaking journalists who are similarly ignorant of Thai language, culture, history and society, then perhaps CNN should consider reassigning field correspondents to Thailand.
I implore and urge you to please take serious action to correct or reverse the grave injustice that has been done to the Thai nation, her government, and the majority of law-abiding Thai citizens and expatriate residents by the poorly researched and misrepresented news coverage of the ongoing political unrest and escalating violence in Thailand.
Copies of this open letter have also been distributed to other local as well as international news media and social networks for public information. Please feel free to contact me further should you require any additional concrete and reputable evidence in substantiation and corroboration of my complaints and claims stated above.
Napas Na Pombejra
Bangkok
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