Who is in charge of The Nation's website?
What is going through the mind of The Nation’s webmaster? The newspaper gets a lot of stick for some of the content it publishes, but the website has taken a bizarre turn since it was revamped. For about two weeks now the homepage has featured a video of two girls fighting. All we are told about the video is this:
The video shows the bickering between student girls from a famous college in northern province of Chiangrai.
There is no option to comment on the video, there is no mention of which college or when the fight occurred, and there isn’t even anything to say why the video has been published on the website of one of Thailand’s biggest English-language newspapers.
For a quick, cheap thrill the video is rather funny (the two girls fight like windmills), but it doesn’t belong on the front page of a newspaper that takes itself seriously.
The Nation overlooks videos from the recent protests in Bangkok and last month’s Live Earth concerts and adorns its homepage with videos of girls fighting and ninjas running through classrooms.
I can’t imagine who would have had such a brainwave.
Ok the girlfight-vide was shot at least in thailand. But what about the nonja video. it seems to have happened in some other country. May be the webmaster just considered it as funny. (Which it is not)
In the print copy today there is a full page color ad for a jazz group that is playing at the Thailand cultural Center. The add is filled with grammar mistakes. It's a Nation Group add and I can just not figure out why they would not have someone proof it before it goes to press. Baffles my mind really.
Highlights are the following quotes:
"For reserve, please call at Nation Group"
"A vocalist of world class, the talent of highest order featuring with hot Jazz Trio band from Europe"
and the best:
"The intelligence musical talent" WTF does that mean??
Really who writes these ads?
In other words, you should not take the website too seriously.
I also saw the clip last week. It was nothing special except that the girls who took part in the fight looked somewhat stupid and funny.
They are going to be in a deep thing that comes out of human's nether region, if their parents or their college find out.
Let them fight as long as they do not kill one another.
I didn't know Rupert Murdoch was buying newspapers in Thailand.
~Chani
I found it funny though cos there's no news like petty fights. other than that it's the XXX tat's wat thailand is famous for.
The simple answer is that the editors at The Nation have no integrity. They have no integrity in their reporting. They have no integrity in their editing. They have no integrity in their publishing. They have no integrity concerning their website. The foreign sub-editors are underpaid and exploited
I once tried to sign up for a blog at the website. After my first blog, which basically said everything that I say at my own blog, I got a window that said, "You is banned."
That should tell you everything you need to know about The Nation.
These kind of things are usually highlighted in the Thai Rath newspaper.