gavinmac wrote:
How do you "deal with it behind the scenes" other than paying millions of dollars or selling out like Agape and agreeing not to post critical content about the regime?
You understand that the government was likely posturing and sabre-rattling and had no real intention to shut them down, but instead wanted to fire a warning shot across their bow.
The smart move would have been to keep the fuck quiet, maybe reach out to the government privately and open a constructive dialogue.
Instead, what do they do? They encourage their starry-eyed journalists (who have more of an eye on their cvs and journalistic creds than on the Daily itself) to engage in a social media war, ramping up the stakes and ensuring that there is no way at all the authorities can or will back down. The Daily has made it all about face, and we know how that ends up in South East Asia.
Their naivety is baffling. It's classic millenial tactics on their behalf. Never mind though; They will lose their jobs, but on the plus side they can puff their chests out and proudly talk about how they resisted the oppressive regime at their next interview at the New Hampshire Howler, or wherever they end up next.
Curiously, none of the Cambodian journalists at the Daily are campaigning on Twitter. They know better. And they know they will be left behind when Paviour et al have moved on.