Phnom Penh Post's Friends Get Their Story Told!
July 20th 2008 11:36
PHNOM PENH POST'S FRIENDS GET THEIR STORY TOLD
The Phnom Penh Post is clearly friends with Theary Seng (controversial Executive Director of the Centre for Social Development in Cambodia) as it has, for a while now, allowed her to write un-edited rants in every issue of their paper. Based on this, it was clearly going to be a difficult task for the Phnom Penh Post to attain neutrality on the recent saga surrounding the Centre for Social Development's "Executive Director" and it's "Board of Directors" (See footnote for background to CSD saga). It is for that reason that I reluctantly forgave them for the full-page and extremely biased rant on the CSD saga written by Theary Seng and published by the Phnom Penh Post in their previous issue. But the Phnom Penh Post stepped way over the line in their latest issue which included an "interview" with Theary Seng. (To read the interview follow the link: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008070920212/National-news/Interview.html). Is the Phnom Penh Post trying to inflame this saga for tabloid purposes? This one-sided portrayal of a very real and unfortunately not-as-trivial-as-it-should-be situation is unquestionably unethical of the Phnom Penh Post. I am truly glad that this type of tabloid rubbish is not translated into Khmer.
Theary Seng has been working for CSD for a little over 2 years and is now overthrowing her employers! I'd like to hear what Ross Dunkley and Michael Hayes would have to say if after two years of working with PPPost JJ McRoach declared them irrelevant, replaced them and decided he was now in charge .
A suggestion to the PPPost on reporting, using the CSD case as an example: if you want to know what the donors think.... ask the donors; if you want to know why someone wants to get rid of their employee... ask the employer; if you want know why the employee thinks they've been hard-done-by... ask the employee. Gathering this information is called reporting and when it is compiled into one place it is called a story. It's quite simple really - especially when you have two weeks to do it.
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***Footnote**** Explanation of the "CSD Saga" - The Board of Directors have tried to fire the Executive Director that they employed a little over 2 years ago but the Executive Director is saying that the Board of Directors no longer control her and are dufunct as their term has ended thus she is now in charge of the organisation.
The Phnom Penh Post is clearly friends with Theary Seng (controversial Executive Director of the Centre for Social Development in Cambodia) as it has, for a while now, allowed her to write un-edited rants in every issue of their paper. Based on this, it was clearly going to be a difficult task for the Phnom Penh Post to attain neutrality on the recent saga surrounding the Centre for Social Development's "Executive Director" and it's "Board of Directors" (See footnote for background to CSD saga). It is for that reason that I reluctantly forgave them for the full-page and extremely biased rant on the CSD saga written by Theary Seng and published by the Phnom Penh Post in their previous issue. But the Phnom Penh Post stepped way over the line in their latest issue which included an "interview" with Theary Seng. (To read the interview follow the link: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008070920212/National-news/Interview.html). Is the Phnom Penh Post trying to inflame this saga for tabloid purposes? This one-sided portrayal of a very real and unfortunately not-as-trivial-as-it-should-be situation is unquestionably unethical of the Phnom Penh Post. I am truly glad that this type of tabloid rubbish is not translated into Khmer.
Theary Seng has been working for CSD for a little over 2 years and is now overthrowing her employers! I'd like to hear what Ross Dunkley and Michael Hayes would have to say if after two years of working with PPPost JJ McRoach declared them irrelevant, replaced them and decided he was now in charge .
A suggestion to the PPPost on reporting, using the CSD case as an example: if you want to know what the donors think.... ask the donors; if you want to know why someone wants to get rid of their employee... ask the employer; if you want know why the employee thinks they've been hard-done-by... ask the employee. Gathering this information is called reporting and when it is compiled into one place it is called a story. It's quite simple really - especially when you have two weeks to do it.
__________________________________________________________________________
***Footnote**** Explanation of the "CSD Saga" - The Board of Directors have tried to fire the Executive Director that they employed a little over 2 years ago but the Executive Director is saying that the Board of Directors no longer control her and are dufunct as their term has ended thus she is now in charge of the organisation.
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