OPINION

Question of balance

It appears the Bangkok Post belongs to the mainstream media of this world and only prints articles from Associated Press, The New York Times, etc (especially from Paul Krugman), but never prints articles from opposing sides.

Thus, I can only read one set of opinions, and it is not fair for politicians in the US who are portrayed by The New York Times, AP, etc as very bad people. I wonder why you only choose articles from sources which are dishonest and biased?

This can cause Thais to be misled about what is happening in the US, especially during the presidential election. I think even though the election belongs to US citizens, you have a responsibility to print different opinions.

Of course Eric Bahrt ("Easy win for Hillary", PostBag, Aug 7) knows for sure that election rigging cannot happen in the United States. After all, he is there to deal with information on the spot, first-hand information, not watching it on CNN like 99.9% of the expats here.

Eric, there is a first time for everything, even in the United States, and Ms Clinton is so dishonest she'd stoop to the lowest depths to achieve the presidency.

Look at your history, Eric. After World War I, it was said there could never be another such war, until World War II broke out. Look at Thailand. After the first coup in 1932 it was said there would never be another coup. Look at … oh, never mind.

Go join the ranks of the armchair political analysts if it will keep you happy.

Once again, True Visions has slapped the local expat community in the face. As a Platinum subscriber and a customer of True for over a decade now, I am outraged at the changes made over the past few years.

We have seen the guide downgraded to a virtual "Thai only" publication with the English version not having the majority of the available channels. We see adverts for channels not on offer and promotions we cannot participate in because of the lack of English.

We get on-screen programming info in Thai so we can't determine the dates and times of the few programmes available. We are sent SMS messages advertising who knows what, again only in Thai, as is their Facebook page and website.

Their "zone" type programming assigns to the same channel three or four different channel numbers for the same programming, and the new, enhanced, interactive menus promised have disappeared from their advertising.

And, whoopee doo, we now have the addition of four more football channels offering 1,500 matches to the already bloated schedule that relies on replays of past matches to fill the weekly time slots. And now, it would seem, we are to be denied any broadcast of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Fortunately, the growth of internet TV will soon make this overpriced, out-of-touch company re-evaluate its relationship with its customers. But, without realistic competition, that is probably an empty hope!

US Watchdog, in his Aug 5 letter "Breaking convention", said Hillary Clinton was flooded with red balloons during the closing ceremonies of the US Democratic Convention. Nonsense.

The balloons dropped at the end of the Democratic convention were in three colours: red, white and blue (which is the traditional way Americans refer to their colours).

Furthermore, the author was not expressing an opinion but merely a wish, unsubstantiated by any arguments. I hope PostBag will stick to opinion pieces in the future, rather than to provide a platform for partisan wishes.