# Twenty-one Dead in Thailand. Minimal Press Coverage **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657 "2020-02-09T01:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/1 "2020-02-09T01:44:31Z")
There is press coverage of [the massacre.](https://apnews.com/f9be83e8622f7737226875899f27335a) I am not saying the story is being ignored. It just seems to me to not be getting the coverage it ought. [Cnn.com](http://Cnn.com) The main story on the front page. [BBC.com](http://BBC.com) same New York Times on the front page below the fold. Reddit news.Not on the front page at the moment. NY Post. Not mentioned on the front page, NY Daily News Same Daily Mail Same Globe & Mail Same Los Angeles Times Same Jewish Telegraph Agency Same Just by the way. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/2 "2020-02-09T02:12:09Z")
I’m well aware of the story and I live in the middle of nowhere. It is the top story under “World news” on my Google news feed. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/3 "2020-02-09T02:27:00Z")
I suppose time zones and the developing nature of the story has something to do with it. Still, this seems to be a big story. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/4 "2020-02-09T02:36:27Z")
BBC now reporting the perp has been shot dead ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/5 "2020-02-09T02:57:18Z")
I saw it reported on the local Chicago TV news. How is it being reported in Saudia Arabia? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/6 "2020-02-09T03:15:20Z")
It’s been the main story on the AP’s front page all day. ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/7 "2020-02-09T03:20:21Z")
Washington Post has a line of links at the top of the webpage. It has a link to the full story but no actual headline on the main page. It could be an algorithmic decision since I’m logged in. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/8 "2020-02-09T03:43:02Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I saw it reported on the local Chicago TV news. How is it being reported in Saudia Arabia? Oddly, I have not even looked. The Saudi papers are my afternoon fare. Let me look… Not on the front page. They do have [Saudi Arabia on a fast track to gender equality, study suggests](http://https://www.arabnews.com/node/1625046/saudi-arabia) and [US court dismisses Turkey’s attempt to shut down Erdogan bodyguard attack cases.](http://https://www.arabnews.com/node/1624976/world) Since they got rid of “Hi & Louis” the Arab News has gone downhill. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/9 "2020-02-09T03:47:00Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > They do have [Saudi Arabia on a fast track to gender equality, study suggests](http://https://www.arabnews.com/node/1625046/saudi-arabia) and [US court dismisses Turkey’s attempt to shut down Erdogan bodyguard attack cases.](http://https://www.arabnews.com/node/1624976/world) Off topic, but any reason why your links don’t work in the US? I just contacted my friend in Bangkok, she’s quite shocked this could happen in Thailand. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/10 "2020-02-09T03:58:15Z")
I cannot imagine why the links do not work. They are from the front page of the current issue of the Arab News. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/11 "2020-02-09T04:00:30Z")
My local news is leading with it as I write this. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/12 "2020-02-09T04:13:13Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > My local news is leading with it as I write this. On mine also. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/13 "2020-02-09T04:55:22Z")
made the 2 minute hourly radio news bulletin here in New Zealand ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/14 "2020-02-09T06:01:15Z")
In Israel, the major news sites in Hebrew have the story on the first page. ---
**Author:** ![albino\_manatee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/albino_manatee/32/2_2.png) [@albino\_manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/albino_manatee)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/15 "2020-02-09T13:10:29Z")
imho … he shouldn’t have gotten any coverage at all … fleas like him need to be burned at the stake … for taking other innocent lives in his _“agenda”_ … definitely does not constitute any _‘immortalization’_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/16 "2020-02-09T14:09:16Z")
It was listed on Fark early yesterday AM. Which in turn [linked](https://www.fark.com/comments/10705235/Thai-soldier-still-at-large-after-going-on-shooting-rampage-At-least-20-dead-so-far-developing-story) to a BBC story. I strongly disagree with the OP’s claim. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/17 "2020-02-09T17:53:34Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > I just contacted my friend in Bangkok, she’s quite shocked this could happen in Thailand. My first thought was: Is this in the ethnically Malay part of Thailand? Because _amok_ is a culture-bound phenomenon for Malays. Nope, it was a long way from there. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/18 "2020-02-09T19:31:25Z")
From what I’ve read, the shooter was upset about a housing deal gone wrong. WTF? Something bad happens, so the obvious response is to kill and cripple dozens and dozens of strangers? Terrorism for a cause, however worthless, seems more explainable at least. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Flavius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@Marcus\_Flavius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marcus_Flavius)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/19 "2020-02-09T19:38:59Z")
Is America exporting it’s nihilistic mass shooting culture overseas? I’m hearing increasingly more about them happening in foreign lands. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657/20 "2020-02-09T20:14:09Z")
Responding to the OP, the shooting has been on my ordinary Google newsfeed since it happened. It was the very first hit when it happened, and now has dropped down a bit, but I’d say it’s got regular coverage. (Posting from Canada.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-one-dead-in-thailand-minimal-press-coverage/847657.md?page=2)