I believe they became aware of this story because it appeared in the local press and on Khmer440. Just a hunch. There was already substantial proof online of mistaken identity and false info from the police when they ran the story. The Phnom Penh Post contacted Erdman, probably read Khmer440, and didn't report the obviously false nonsense from the police. (Not yet, maybe they don't print on Saturday and will print something equally stupid and irresponsible on Monday). The Daily accessed like saw the information disproving the police representative's claims and ran the story and just added an extra world "allegedly."NO JOKE DAVE wrote:In fairness to the Daily, if someone told one of their reporters that a Westerner had been nicked for diddling, then they contacted the police and the chief confirmed this was true and was quoted in depth explaining the nature of the arrest, then I don't think it's unreasonable to run the story that they did.
Imagine if someone else ran a front page story saying "Bernie Krisher is allegedly a Nazi war criminal according to a report," while knowing that the report had been disproven elsewhere. I doubt the Cambodia Daily would like that.
"CD longtime" invited our scrutiny of the Khmer Times' practices, I hope he doesn't mind answering a few questions here when he sees this thread. Like had the Daily reporters/editors seen this thread before running the story and why didn't they just kill the story?