Comments on: Video from Thailand coup on YouTube

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By: Safran

Safran — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:02:38 +0000

I got an email from a friend and smart news guy whose judgement I completely trust. He preferred not to use his name here, given his position, but is permitting me to reprint his comment in full. He writes an excellent counterpoint to my comment that “Forget distilled reports - when you see tanks riding peacefully down the street with passenger cars, that tells you plenty.” Here it is:

What does it REALLY tell you? Here’s what you actually know: that someone (identity/motivation unknown) took video somewhere (location/time unknown) showing tanks alongside traffic. What happened before this clip? What happened afterwards? (Let’s remember the tanks entered Tien An Men square piecefuly too Is this pastoral scene representative of what is happening across Bangkok? Is the poster a civilian? If, as often happens in “bloodless coups,” someone has been imprisoned, beaten or even killed — do you really believe it would happen in front of someone’s civilian DV cam? )

I’m all for citizen journalism. Citizen journalists can be what we used to call “eyewitnesses.” But it is NOT the WHOLE story, and you can’t even be sure it’s the REAL story.

And Steve, you should know better … tanks riding peacefully down a street is never, EVER, the whole story.

(Safran note, again: He’s right, especially about the “whole” story. What I was trying to get across was the sense that by surfing YouTube for several videos and by reading blogs, I got what I believed was a good sense of the reaction on the street.)

By: Donnie MacIntyre

Donnie MacIntyre — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:45:44 +0000

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. All the news reports I’ve seen have made it perfectly clear that this was a peaceful coup.

By: Rico

Rico — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:32:35 +0000

What I find surprising is that the photographer(s) in these cases were not roughed up…

By: hehe

hehe — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:52:27 +0000

Sorry America… You deserve your news sexed up in a promo read by a booming male voice.

Not as it ACTUALLY is…

Tonight at 10

Tanks. Troops. Guns. Citizens are forced to stay inside after a massive military coup in Thailand.
The former leader… now in the United States.
How will this affect the Middle East and War on Terror?
At ten, we’re live in our studio with an AP wire report and some b-roll from CNN.

And… The Pope. The Shuttle. The Coup. And Viera. Tonight, why this religious leader is saying we’re days away from the end times.

Plus, why is this elephant in the local library? He’s not just NOSING around… The sweet-ass amazing video caught on tape tonight on Fox 11 Action News Early Edition at 10. B*tch.