Thailand’s ITV reporters lynched
Smartbrain reported Thailand’s ITV reported "live" from the scene there were only six thousand protesters at the Sanam Luang stadium.
When the protestors heard the "live" report, they started to lynch the ITV reporters at the stadium.
Smartbrain added police escorts were needed to bring the ITV reporters out of the stadium.
Based on Smartbrain’s estimates, they are more than two hundred thousand protesters at this very moment.
Is this the size of six thousands protesters? (photos at 1930 hrs Bangkok Time)
ITV reporters getting lynched by the protesters
Demonstrations and protests in Thailand
There has been public demostrations and protests in the past month for so, asking Thaksin to step down as PM amid claims of corruption and ineffectiveness. Why hasn’t this been reported in the mainstream media yet?
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The ITV reporter gave her account in a popular Thai News Variety Morning Show on Feb. 27.
She insisted that she was sensitive about not reporting the figures of the protesters, but was intimidated by a drunk man who listened in to her report and made up that she had so reported of the 6,000-7,000 protesters.
As a member of the media, she might have said the truth about some instigators trying to make the situation worse.
But who would benefit from the confrontation between the protesters and the ITV reporters? I wonder.
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Ok…
A few clarifications for the record.
ITV have denied reporting the figures and they have reviewed the tapes and confirmed that the figure “6,000″ was not said by the reporter.
Smartbrain was about 100 metres away when the scruffle broke out so did not hear anything first hand and only got the 6,000 figure from asking people what had happened.
BUT, is ITV not guilty? I think not. Why? Every other decent and half-decent news team was shooting from the middle of the Sanam Luang field. ITV was shooting from the point furthest away from the stage on the opposite side of the security perimeter. In other words, in the most deserted part of Sanam Luang that day.
Reporting from a deserted corner of the protests was obviously aimed at having the pictures show a deserted field.
But still, that was not enough of a reason for the reporters to be pelted with water bottles and threatened. ITV was in a no-win situation. They are now owned by Temasek so anything they do would be considered unpatriotic in the eyes of the crowds that day. Oh, well, life goes on.
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