17 April 2008...6:05
Newspaper of record covers Songkran
If it were not for the New York Times, people around the world might not have noticed all the food riots in Thailand lately.
U.N. Panel Urges Changes to Feed Poor While Saving Environment.
The price of basic food like rice, wheat and corn has been rising sharply, setting off violent protests in Haiti, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Yemen, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and even Italy.
Emphasis added. I guess the newspaper of record happened to walk in during a Songkran water-gun fight and just drew the obvious conclusion — that Thailand was having one of those food riots.
I guess that because the only other explanation, literally the only other possibility is that reporter Steven Erlanger, who is in Paris, simply made it up and his alleged “editors” were too busy to check.
The archive (proof) is here. This ridiculous story hasn’t a shred of fact, not a credible word in it.
5 Comments
21 April 2008 at 19:45
[...] New York Times last week reported falsely that there had been violent protests in Thailand over food prices. There have been no violent protests about food in Thailand. There haven’t [...]
21 April 2008 at 19:46
[...] New York Times last week reported falsely that there had been violent protests in Thailand over food prices. There have been no violent protests about food in Thailand. There haven’t [...]
23 April 2008 at 10:40
[...] shortages and riots here in thailand??? damn! it’s the first i’ve heard of [...]
3 May 2008 at 7:51
[...] Jump to Comments I hadn’t meant to make a crusade out of this when I pointed out the ridiculous claim by The New York Times a little over two weeks ago of violent protests in Thailand over food prices. [...]
4 May 2008 at 8:53
[...] us recapitulate. The New York Times (from Paris) reports food riots in Thailand that didn’t happen. Four days later, The New York Times, this time in a [...]
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