One may wonder about the one-sided pro-West editorial tones and outright propaganda peddled on the online "news" site, Asian Correspondent. It is clear in Thailand, its "blogger collective" backs the regime and despises the protesters, in lockstep with the West's traditional corporate media (
Reuters,
BBC,
NYT). Who are these "bloggers" and what is this platform called "Asian Correspondent?"
It is a business - and it is a business funded by Western corporations, as well as clearly driven by their interests. This is in fact openly admitted by Asian Correspondent founder, James Craven. A Guardian article titled, "
Asian Correspondent.com to build far-east foreign reporting collective," -
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