Im not sure that is exactly true. Both the Post and the KT publish international pieces under agreements with the respective international outlets. It is hardly unique to the Daily, whatever status it holds.violet wrote:Wow. Had no ideaAlexandra wrote:The government is right on this. The Daily does not have a license to publish a daily newspaper. They have a license for publishing weekly newsletters as an NGO. They knew very well that this was on the horizon.
It's because of their charity status that they get to print half the paper with stories from international outlets they have nothing to do with writing.
Looks like this is the end for the Copy Paste Daily. Good night, Bernie.
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Has any of the Daily, PPP or Khmer Times ever made anything like a profit? I can't see it at all. CD hasn't for obvious reasons, and my understanding is that PPP's overheads are so huge that it can't possibly be run in the black. Khmer Times barely needs to have the question asked of it.
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Well, they knew about it, so it isn't surprising for them to be caught over something so trivial (that they should have been on top of in the first place) instead of something more serious like defamation. The people in power aren't stupid.cyclingqueen wrote:Of all the things that could have killed the Daily, it would very sad if it was over taxes.
It will be a bleak and boring world with only the Post around to report on what is going on.
I'm just guessing the government are simply working on paying back their own debt to the US government...
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The Cambodia Daily was, in their own words, set up as a non-profit organization. I'm not sure how this differs from an NGO in terms of registration, taxation etc. while they used to be somewhat impartial, this has not been the case for some years. Through this status they were able to copy and paste foreign news without paying.
As well as this many of their foreign staff were short-term interns, who were pretty much clueless on arrival but soon learned the company line. This led to an awful lot of repetitive and naive crap being reported over the years.
While most of the world's press went online, the CD stuck with the print format for a bit longer. During this time they used to run full-page ads for a chance to buy a copy of their archives. I'm not sure how many took this offer up, as it was on microfilm (a format unheard of for decades) and cost something like $19,500 if I remember correctly.
Now it has an online edition, but restricts viewers to a small number of articles per month, if you want to read more you need to subscribe. There were of course ways around this, but then recently they put any article more than 2 weeks old behind a paywall. I don't have any huge objections to this as I understand they need to keep afloat.
So the number of people who can actually read their publication online is quite restricted, so their partisan stance wouldn't matter so much. However, they have a Facebook page, which is completely un-moderated. The comments on there are pretty much in line with the kind of crap that KI- Media used to have. No matter what the topic, the comments invariably descend to the same barely comprehensible "Vietnam thief Yuon running dog communist dictator" nonsense. There is also a fair amount of "I want to kill the PM and his whole family" stuff. They should have known not to let stuff like that stay on their page, probably too late now though.
As well as this many of their foreign staff were short-term interns, who were pretty much clueless on arrival but soon learned the company line. This led to an awful lot of repetitive and naive crap being reported over the years.
While most of the world's press went online, the CD stuck with the print format for a bit longer. During this time they used to run full-page ads for a chance to buy a copy of their archives. I'm not sure how many took this offer up, as it was on microfilm (a format unheard of for decades) and cost something like $19,500 if I remember correctly.
Now it has an online edition, but restricts viewers to a small number of articles per month, if you want to read more you need to subscribe. There were of course ways around this, but then recently they put any article more than 2 weeks old behind a paywall. I don't have any huge objections to this as I understand they need to keep afloat.
So the number of people who can actually read their publication online is quite restricted, so their partisan stance wouldn't matter so much. However, they have a Facebook page, which is completely un-moderated. The comments on there are pretty much in line with the kind of crap that KI- Media used to have. No matter what the topic, the comments invariably descend to the same barely comprehensible "Vietnam thief Yuon running dog communist dictator" nonsense. There is also a fair amount of "I want to kill the PM and his whole family" stuff. They should have known not to let stuff like that stay on their page, probably too late now though.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Here's some choice stuff off their Facebook page:
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Some transparency is needed.
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan threatened 440 with legal action last year over claims that the Khmer Times was removing articles from its website (which it did, sue me). cyclingqueen verified his identity from the same IP address Sonny used when he made the threats. Why does it matter? Well, she works for an organization that makes legal threats in response to the spoken word while claiming to defend the spoken word. There is an agenda here.
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Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan threatened 440 with legal action last year over claims that the Khmer Times was removing articles from its website (which it did, sue me). cyclingqueen verified his identity from the same IP address Sonny used when he made the threats. Why does it matter? Well, she works for an organization that makes legal threats in response to the spoken word while claiming to defend the spoken word. There is an agenda here.
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That Dylan dude/chick is always posting shit like that. It sounds like it's his day job to utter barely comprehensible attacks or something. Even on totally unrelated to the PM/politics articles, he'll start spouting off about yuon dogs from his basement in Australia.
LexusSchmexus wrote:That Dylan dude/chick is always posting shit like that. It sounds like it's his day job to utter barely comprehensible attacks or something. Even on totally unrelated to the PM/politics articles, he'll start spouting off about yuon dogs from his basement in Australia.
Likely an emigre sitting in the safety of the USA
“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
The last paragraph in the PPP story is interesting, about how CD was sold to what looks like a holding company in Bernie's name so that it can [finally] be run as an ordinary company.
How, for the past 20 years (I think their status changed recently), the CD has been operating as a not-for-profit organisation is beyond me - it is a newspaper full of paid advertising, not a 'means of teaching and promoting journalism in Cambodia' or however they phrased it. And its motto 'All the news without Fear or Favor' is a joke - staffed by half-witted US millennials the paper has an inordinate amount of coverage of events in the US (do we care about the USA?) and is incessantly anti-Trump. Not a great fan of the man who is, admittedly, a bit of an insane idiot, but their coverage of him is unrelentingly negative (and thus rendered meaningless) - the humourless 'cartoon' on the last inner page invariably features Trump, and is invariably insulting and/or derogatory in a way that would not be tolerated for any other politician. 'Without Favo(u)r' indeed.
RBD wrote:How, for the past 20 years (I think their status changed recently), the CD has been operating as a not-for-profit organisation is beyond me - it is a newspaper full of paid advertising, not a 'means of teaching and promoting journalism in Cambodia' or however they phrased it. And its motto 'All the news without Fear or Favor' is a joke - staffed by half-witted US millennials the paper has an inordinate amount of coverage of events in the US (do we care about the USA?) and is incessantly anti-Trump. Not a great fan of the man who is, admittedly, a bit of an insane idiot, but their coverage of him is unrelentingly negative (and thus rendered meaningless) - the humourless 'cartoon' on the last inner page invariably features Trump, and is invariably insulting and/or derogatory in a way that would not be tolerated for any other politician. 'Without Favo(u)r' indeed.
Just because they have paid advertising doesn't mean they can't be 'not for profit'. Any ad revenues will contribute to running costs, not generating a profit.
And to say it's 'full of advertising' is hardly accurate. A few NGO job vacancies, and one or two small display ads. It's not exactly brimful of adverts, and neither is their website.
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I don't see why their coverage of international news should be under discussion, as it is all ripped (and likely cherry-picked, but that's not the point) from international news agencies. It's their reporting on Cambodia that is under question as far as I'm concerned. There have been rumors of the Cambodia Daily being backed by the International Republican Institute but I'm not sure if that's substantiated.RBD wrote:How, for the past 20 years (I think their status changed recently), the CD has been operating as a not-for-profit organisation is beyond me - it is a newspaper full of paid advertising, not a 'means of teaching and promoting journalism in Cambodia' or however they phrased it. And its motto 'All the news without Fear or Favor' is a joke - staffed by half-witted US millennials the paper has an inordinate amount of coverage of events in the US (do we care about the USA?) and is incessantly anti-Trump. Not a great fan of the man who is, admittedly, a bit of an insane idiot, but their coverage of him is unrelentingly negative (and thus rendered meaningless) - the humourless 'cartoon' on the last inner page invariably features Trump, and is invariably insulting and/or derogatory in a way that would not be tolerated for any other politician. 'Without Favo(u)r' indeed.
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All is shows is that I was once in the same room as Sonny.Alexandra wrote:Some transparency is needed.
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan threatened 440 with legal action last year over claims that the Khmer Times was removing articles from its website (which it did, sue me). cyclingqueen verified his identity from the same IP address Sonny used when he made the threats. Why does it matter? Well, she works for an organization that makes legal threats in response to the spoken word while claiming to defend the spoken word. There is an agenda here.
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I do not work for/at the KT.
Is that enough transparency?
The Daily today ran a story alluding to the fine, but twisted it to point out that while they weren't an NGO themselves, around only 200 of the 5000 domestic NGOs in Cambodia had failed to comply with basic financial and tax issues.
It struck me as a pretty pathetic example of 'whataboutism'.
Come on Daily - if you have avoided paying salary taxes to the tune of $3m, then face up to it and stop trying to turn attention elsewhere.
It struck me as a pretty pathetic example of 'whataboutism'.
Come on Daily - if you have avoided paying salary taxes to the tune of $3m, then face up to it and stop trying to turn attention elsewhere.
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