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August 6th 2008 06:26
PHNOM PENH POST MISSES THE CRUX OF THE NEWS AND PROVIDES THE MOULDY CRUST OF THE NEWS
Once again, the Phnom Penh Post has not felt it important to actually inform their readers about the source of their proclamations. This time, the article FBI to help in case of slain journalist* reported that “Cambodian authorities have accepted the US Embassy’s offer to provide Federal Bureau of Investigation assistance” in the investigation of a murdered journalist, Khim Sambo, but failed to say when this decision was made and who announced it. Not only did they fail to report these main details of the story, the Post didn’t bother to talk to either a representative from the US Embassy or the FBI about Cambodia’s decision to accept their assistance (assuming we are to simply the believe the Post that this decision was actually made). On top of that, from the two sources the Post actually did use for the article, one was an anonymous source** and the other was an almost word-for-word repeat of what was reported in a previous article on the subject***. So basically, within one article, the Post made an unsubstantiated proclamation with no background information and then tried to back it up using an anonymous source and re-stating old news. It leaves me asking the question – does Phnom Penh Post staff do any reporting at all in a day’s work?
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* FOOTNOTE * The article in question can be found online at Really Long Link
** FOOTNOTE ** Not only did the article quote an anonymous “police officer”, his statement supposedly represented “Several senior security officials [that] made clear they did not want the FBI involved in a Cambodian investigation.”
*** FOOTNOTE *** In this article, Government Spokesperson and Information Minister, Khieu Kanharith, was reported as saying: “We never rejected the assistance. It is good to collaborate with the FBI, so when we find the killers, the opposition party will not claim they are fake.” In a previous article written on this subject, (see FBI could probe journalist’s murder) the Post reported Khieu Kannarith as saying “It would be good if we could cooperate with the FBI in investigating this case. We could trade experiences. Either way, we would not be blamed if we could not find the killers, or if we found them [critics] would not say [the suspects] are the fake killers.”
Once again, the Phnom Penh Post has not felt it important to actually inform their readers about the source of their proclamations. This time, the article FBI to help in case of slain journalist* reported that “Cambodian authorities have accepted the US Embassy’s offer to provide Federal Bureau of Investigation assistance” in the investigation of a murdered journalist, Khim Sambo, but failed to say when this decision was made and who announced it. Not only did they fail to report these main details of the story, the Post didn’t bother to talk to either a representative from the US Embassy or the FBI about Cambodia’s decision to accept their assistance (assuming we are to simply the believe the Post that this decision was actually made). On top of that, from the two sources the Post actually did use for the article, one was an anonymous source** and the other was an almost word-for-word repeat of what was reported in a previous article on the subject***. So basically, within one article, the Post made an unsubstantiated proclamation with no background information and then tried to back it up using an anonymous source and re-stating old news. It leaves me asking the question – does Phnom Penh Post staff do any reporting at all in a day’s work?
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* FOOTNOTE * The article in question can be found online at Really Long Link
** FOOTNOTE ** Not only did the article quote an anonymous “police officer”, his statement supposedly represented “Several senior security officials [that] made clear they did not want the FBI involved in a Cambodian investigation.”
*** FOOTNOTE *** In this article, Government Spokesperson and Information Minister, Khieu Kanharith, was reported as saying: “We never rejected the assistance. It is good to collaborate with the FBI, so when we find the killers, the opposition party will not claim they are fake.” In a previous article written on this subject, (see FBI could probe journalist’s murder) the Post reported Khieu Kannarith as saying “It would be good if we could cooperate with the FBI in investigating this case. We could trade experiences. Either way, we would not be blamed if we could not find the killers, or if we found them [critics] would not say [the suspects] are the fake killers.”
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