Originally Posted by
Kellen Bassette
Media blows everything out of proportion, anything to incite fear and panic...a few years ago I was in downtown Bangkok during the Red Shirt riots, people in the States started messaging me asking if I was ok. I looked at the US version of Yahoo News on my laptop and the headline was something like "Bangkok Burning Down!" It showed a picture of the skyline all smoke and fires. I went outside and there was literally nothing out of the ordinary. The whole thing was a one block area where some protesters were burning some tires, but the pictures and videos made it look like a massive riot with buildings burning everywhere. Thai people were mad and asking me why they were saying this stuff on the world news....blew my mind, basically nothing at all going on and I'm watching the news totally distort, manipulate and blow everything insanely out of proportion...I've never trusted the media since....