More positive news from the British press!

Brits flee battle of the gays

September 01, 2007

SCORES of teenage male prostitutes and transvestites battled with clubs, knives and petrol bombs in a three-day тАЬgay warтАЭ.

Police arrested two young men after one bar was set ablaze and another was completely ransacked in the Thailand resort of Pattaya.

Foreigners including British tourists fled the area, 100 miles east of Bangkok.

The area is famed for gay sex tourism but the trade is in recession.

It is thought the feud erupted when two male hookers, known as тАЬladyboysтАЭ argued over a foreign client. During street fighting a gun was fired into one gay bar.

Pattaya is popular with British sex tourists.

Teenage boys are available there for as little as ┬г12. Prostitution is illegal but cops are paid to turn a blind eye.

The majority of the resortтАЩs foreign gay bars are thought to be owned by Britons.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007400839,00.html

[Wesley]

So, what is the real story. I assume the Sun Times like most American press only reported what they wanted you to hear, not what actually happened.

Wesley

[llz]

The story written in the British rag has about no relation with what was printed in the english-speaking thai newspapers ; it happened in Soi Buakao (not a gay hot spot as far as I know) between staff members of two karaoke shops battling over a FEMALE customer. And of course nothing related with underage prostitution.
I cannot understand how British laws can allow such a distortion of truth by a so-called newspaper ...
Full stories in all Pattaya newspapers, see for example :
KARAOKE WAR OVER FEMALE CUSTOMER; SHOP SET ON FIRE (http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000003732)
KARAOKE BOMBER ARRES (http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000003738)

A comment from a Sun reader:

"Brits flee battle of the gays
I hope the Sun post this, this is the real story of what happened, the fight involved twenty young men from two Karaoke bars that are only frequented by Thais, it was over a young female singer who is very popular changing venues, the fight lasted 15 mins and later after one of the bars closed a single molotov cocktail was thrown through the window, and the bar caught fire, no gay escorts or Ladyboys were involved and there would have been next to no tourists in this end of the street at that time of the morning, the police here in Pattaya now have all twenty of them in custody, I suppose sensationalising such a small incident sells papers but does nothing for a tourist industry that is already suffering the worst low season on record."

[Smiles]

Also old news. Told here before: http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/fo ... 12651.html (http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/wow-anybody-heard-anything-about-this-one-t12651.html)

Cheers ...

[Wesley]

Also old news. Told here before: http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/fo ... 12651.html (http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/wow-anybody-heard-anything-about-this-one-t12651.html)

Cheers ...

If this is old news why is the Sun just now on September the 1st reporting it and if old news why posted here a second time.

Wesley

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

another fab night at a Sunnee Plaza bar.

I'm not sure that a UK newspaper should be moralizing about rampaging youth in Thailand in the same week a poor 10 year old lad gets gunned down in Britain...with a number of young teens accused of committing the dreadful crime.

[Marsilius]

The Sun is a loathsome rag (though, sadly, it is the biggest circulation UK daily paper).

Nevertheless, in its defence on this occasion (a) it did not "moralise" in its original report as given above - just reported (admittedly completely erroneous!) facts, (b) it did, on the other hand give blanket coverage over several days to the killing of the young boy in the UK earlier in the week.

The Sun is a loathsome rag (though, sadly, it is the biggest circulation UK daily paper)And it's owned by Rupert Murdoch, a man married to a woman young enough to be his grand-daughter. I wonder whether JakeNasty approves?

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

I was at a London soiree several years ago and someone introduced the fragrant Wendy Deng..without me realising who she was.

I said .."and what do you do dear ?"..she said.."Oh I no work..I with him !!"..pointing to the grizzled old Aussie they called the Dirty Digger standing a few feet away.

How do they get away with publishing trash? Simple; successive British governments (the most craven of which was Blair's) have indulged Murdoch and his far-Right political agenda to such an extent that they are terrified of any criticism that appears in this splendid example of the gutter press.

How do they get away with publishing trash?1 No-one will ever go broke underestimating public taste
2 Freedom of the press (unlike Palestine)

I assume the Sun Times like most American press only reported what they wanted you to hear, not what actually happened.


On the BUTTON and in a short sentence!

The British Press seems to lead the pack on it and that's where the trash on Fox and the other talking-head channels in the USA breeds from.

It is unethical, if not immoral, and certainly extremely immature to slander other cultures like that as the British often seem to feel they have the blessings to do whereevr they please.

News needs to keep its fat nose where THEIR news is from.

[Smiles]

" ... How do they get away with publishing trash? Simple; successive British governments (the most craven of which was Blair's) have indulged Murdoch and his far-Right political agenda to such an extent that they are terrified of any criticism that appears in this splendid example of the gutter press ... "
Translation: The Sun has said 'anti-Palestinian' things.

Cheers ...

[Marsilius]

But the Daily Mail is far worse, pandering to the uninformed gut prejudices of people who ought to know better.

the uninformed gut prejudices of people who ought to know better.Is that possible? Does that statement make any sense at all? If they are uninformed how could they know better?

[Marsilius]

They choose a paper which occasionally uses long words - so proving that (unlike most Sun readers?) they do actually have the intelligence to become better-informed if they chose to do so.

But they wilfully choose instead - by the tone adopted and the content selected by the newspaper of their choice - merely to reinforce their gut prejudices rather than to educate themselves towards the truth.

But they wilfully choose insteadObviously if they can't even spell willfully then there should be no surprises