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จดหมายถึงบรรณาธิการ New York Times
Date: Monday, December 16, 2013, 11:41 PM
Dear Sir or Madam,
I've written a letter to your SE Asian correspondence,
Thomas Fuller, to inform him that his report contained
distorted facts and was not in line with the practice of
good journalism. I want to share the facts with him so
that he can file accurate and fair reports in the future for
the benefit of general readers worldwide as well as your
organization. I sent my letter below to him at his email
address next to the articles he wrote.
Since am not so sure if he would receive my letter and be
able to read it in the entirety, I am emailing my letter
(below the dotted line) to you. I would greatly appreciate
if you will forward it to him and to your editor as well as
the Executive in charge. I just want to help you ensure
that your correspondence will adhere to the high ethical
standard in journalism and to do his/her job in a
professional and responsible manner.
A internationally renowned news media like you should not
condone any reporter who writes his/her article that
contains fault hood and/or twisted fact, is biased and with
hidden motive. As you know, allowing inaccurate, unfair
and faulty reports to be published will have negative
impacts and not be beneficial to your organization.
Sincerely,
Peter Tang-piankij
To: Thomas Fuller
The New York Times – SE Asian
correspondence
Dear Thomas,
For any Westerner like you who dared to try Durian and has
fallen in love with the king of the fruits, I have to say
that you’re not an ignorant person. But after I read
your article “Economic Realignment Fuels Regional
Political Divisions in Thailand” published on 12/3/13 in
the New York Times (your employer), I couldn’t help but
join other well-informed readers of Thai nationality to form
the opinions that perhaps you are. Any readers worldwide
would come to the same conclusion if they’ve read the
articles on the same subject separately written by Philip J
Cunningham and Tony Cartalucci. Nonetheless, I will give
you the benefit of the doubt for now that you might have
been misled to hook up with the wrong crowd in Thailand in
your quest for sensational stories. To help you return to
the practice of good journalism (accurate, fair and truthful
reporting), I’d like to point out the flaws in your article.
You only interviewed two individuals (Nidhi Eoseewong and
Charles Keyes) who are known to strongly support or
sympathize with the fugitive former ex-PM, Thaksin
Shinawatra, his puppet regimes (PMs Samak Sundaravej,
Somchai Wongsawat, Yingluck Shinawatra) and his red-shirt
followers. You failed to provide the equal opportunity to
other qualified individuals who have opposing views. Thus,
you’ve practically denied your readers or general public
the information they should have to balance out the
different perspectives and to make their own conclusion
which side of the stories is more sensible and credible.
For Nidhi Eoseewong and Charles Keys to tell you and your
readers that the cause of conflict or the mass protests came
from socioeconomic change or classes, from power struggles
or dialectic variation in the northeastern provinces, and
from the uncertainty on the royal succession in the future
are totally irrelevant, so ridiculous and nonsense! These
two men totally missed it when they conveniently blamed the
conflict or unrest on the economic disparity or jealousy
between the elite (rich) in Bangkok and the poor or the
wealthier farmers in the rural provinces. They did not
know that Thai government in 1980s had crafted the plans for
the Board of Investment (BOI) to provide incentives for
investors to set up factories in provinces for the purposes
of spreading economic growth and jobs outside Bangkok.
Despite the bountiful truth involved, their misstatements
and fact-distortion here and elsewhere can only be
interpreted as ill-will toward Thailand and Thai people.
As you know, on the truth and being truthful, President
Abraham Lincoln said “you can fool all the people some of
the time, and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time.”, while Buddha
said three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon,
and the truth.
But for these two educators, the passage of time and the
expanded availability of factual information on the charges
of corruption and/or misconducts by Thaksin and his cronies
have not helped them reduce their ignorance. The two men
like to act as spokesman for Thaksin and his cronies,
crediting Thaksin’s populist policies aimed to exploit the
poor and ill-informed Thai people, and defending the
misconducts or corruption charged against Thaksin and his
cronies. They like to sidestep the issues involved while
frequently conjecturing the words military coup, majority
votes, democratically elected, politically motivated,
undemocratic, etc. The two men continue to bend the
attention and focus on the root causes that have fueled the
ongoing turmoil. They even won’t hesitate to
irrelevantly link the conflicts to the Thai Royal
institution and our beloved king as well as the Lese Majesty
law; all favorite points attempting to fool foreigners and
quickly get the attention from Western media! These two
men have been known to have distorted mind and twisted views
consistently making unconstructive statements on
controversial issues in favor of Thaksin Shinawatra, his
political parties and red-shirt supporters while against
anyone who opposes the convicted fugitive ex-PM. This fact
was reaffirmed in your report here when they knowingly
misrepresented the cause of conflict as between the old
elite and new wealthy farmers, between people in Bangkok and
the north and northeast provinces.
In case you missed it, please be informed that the
wrongdoings committed or involved by Thaksin and his cronies
are not allegation but factual. It’s fairly easy to find
the information from various sources; in print, audio and
video (YouTube). The long list of his wrongdoings and
details can also be found at the http://www.antithaksin.com/SiteMap.php website.
With the factual information gathered, you will find that
Thaksin and his cronies are definitely the root cause of the
problems (not the socioeconomic change that Nidhi Eoseewong
distorted). As long as Thaksin owns the largest political
party in Thailand and as long as he continues to meddle in
Thailand’s governmental affairs, he is definitely in the
center of conflicts. However, in addition to uprooting the
Thaksinomics, we want to comprehensively reform our nation
to, once and for all, clean up the wrongdoing messes and
prevent unpleasant political crisis from recurring.
And if you have listened objectively to the unified voices
of anti-government protesters, you would easily know that
the massive peaceful protests are not the conflicts between
classes, not between Bangkok and outlying provinces, and not
between the yellow-shirts and the red-shirts. You would
also learn that it was the last three series of misconducts
that compelled the silent majority to come out in millions
on the street to peacefully protest against the current
gov’t demanding Yingluck Shinawatra to step down from the
PM post. The last straw that broke the camel's back
involves:
• Their attempt to enact a blanket amnesty bill that
would whitewash all wrongdoings committed by everyone during
2004 through 2013. This means that Thaksin, his cronies
(which many are in the current cabinet) and all convicted
criminals would be set free from their crimes and
misconducts.
• Their hasty passage of resolution to approve a
project that would put Thai people and their descents in
debt for at least 50 years.
• Their covert actions to amend the Constitution
promoting nepotism to allow family members to be elected
members of both lower and upper Houses. They openly
denounced the Court's decision and announced that they would
not accept the verdict after the Constitution Court decided
and declared that the amended provision was illegal because
they knowingly voted for their absent colleagues, altered
the wordings and supporting documents in the version
subsequently submitted to the Court that significantly
different from the original version. Their act and
declaration clearly are unconstitutional and disrespectful
to the judicial branch.
Due to the lack of an effective check-and-balance system or
any provision in the Constitution that allows the recall and
removal of the sitting Prime Minister found to be
incompetent, unethical, irresponsible, or unaccountable,
Thai protesters have no choice but to resort to mass
protests. Since a military coup d’état is no longer
acceptable or can be counted upon, Thai demonstrators
believe it's their own duty to protect the Constitution,
their rights, and the interests of the people.
The majority of Thai people (who were silent in the past) no
longer can tolerate or accept the authoritarian or fascist
system Thaksin’s regimes used in disguise of democracy to
rule the country. We want leaders and politicians who are
ethical, responsible and accountable – not the crooks,
convicts and terrorists in the current government and former
cabinets under Thaksin’s control. Based on VDO and audio
clips, it’s the fact that Thaksin has been the one who,
from his residence overseas, remotely sets policies for his
puppet governments to follow, and calls the shots when
things failed to go his way. This fact was even confirmed
by the article you reported and published in your NY Times
on 1/29/13. We also want the real democratic system that
will lead Thai people to greater freedoms and rights, real
equal opportunities and better standard of living for all.
Thai people want to have more says, power and participation
as the check/balance mechanism. We’re very eager to quickly
embark on the comprehensive reforms which include systems of
election, voting, political party, and campaign financing to
get rid of vote selling and party buying. This means
temporarily putting the elections aside until the reforms
are done so that there won’t be any repeated political
crisis, prolonged conflict and senseless impasse with
uncontrolled corruption and unaccountable leaders and/or
representatives.
By badly misdiagnosing the real cause of the conflict and
the purposes of the massive protests in your article,
you’ve tarnished your reputation and lowered your
journalism ethics. Whoever and whatever influenced you to
take the low road and join the conspiracy group against
Thailand and the majority of good Thai people, I’d suggest
that you reconsider your relationship with him or her; the
unconstructive collaboration should be terminated. As a
goodwiil gesture from a human being to another fellow man, I
sincerely urge you to choose the high road in your journey
to attain greater professional achievements. You should
follow the path of high ethical journalism standard that
Water Cronkite, Bill Moyer, Ted Koppel, Dan Rather, Peter
Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil have
traveled and helped them earn immense respect and trust from
people all over the world.
I also strongly hope you would reexamine your stand and do
the right things by timely and appropriately taking the
corrective actions to put yourself on the same path that
those great journalists and correspondence have traveled,
and be on the same side with the majority of Thai people and
fair-minded foreign readers all over the world.
Sincerely,
Peter Tang-piankij
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