Khmer Times' T. Mohan's editorial plagiarism pandemic
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It's my impression that, over the last 2-3 months, the Khmer Times is running more anti-foreigner stories than usual. Foreigners being rounded up and deported, foreigners committing crimes, etc.
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But that negro 70's pornstarish dude from the midwest who set about murdering a muslim alien and changing the locks has hit not one of the major news sites (unless I missed something)
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Published 2018-04-08 by Swiftnews as "News Analysis"
Published 2018-04-10 by Khmer Times as "Letter"
Side by side: https://www.diffchecker.com/ksQDh0pk
http://swiftnewsdaily.com/archives/182437(News Analysis): KOUL Panha and COMFREL Are Serving the Foreign Power’s Ambition to Destroy the 2018 Cambodian Election!
Currently, Cambodia is preparing to organize the Election of Members of National Assembly for Sixth Mandate on 29 July 2018. It appears that some opposition groups and election related civil society in cooperation with the leadership of defunct Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) are working to destroy this election by attempting to resurrect the CNRP and 118 politicians who were legally banned from politics to gain their right to participate in the upcoming election.
Published 2018-04-10 by Khmer Times as "Letter"
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/301059/com ... -election/COMFREL plots to disrupt election
Currently Cambodia is preparing for its general elections due to be held on July 29. It appears that some opposition groups and certain NGOs are working hand-in-glove with the now defunct CNRP to disrupt this election. They are also trying to resurrect CNRP and are advocating for the 118 opposition politicians banned from politics to be given a pardon so that they can participate in the upcoming general election.
Side by side: https://www.diffchecker.com/ksQDh0pk
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Nice find Epidemiks, no surprises there of course.
As it was in the "letters" sections, which I think they confuse with what other papers write "editorials", I was curious if the author was real. Turns out that Raoul M Jennar, PhD, is in fact real, with his own wikipedia page and website. It appears that he is a Belgian/French essayist that specialized on Cambodia, a country that he has been visiting since 1988.
There's nothing inherently bad, or wrong, with what he states, but he is very much a large mouthpiece against the West. Again, he's not necessarily wrong when he lambastes the U.S. and other Western countries for their treatment of Cambodia over the years. I just thought that it's interesting that this French writing essayist would write into the Khmer Times like that, and how strongly worded it was. It certainly follows the line of others that write it, but none seem to write in against the government.
I also find it interesting that in the past month in "letters to the Khmer Times" it appears that the Russian and British embassies in Phnom Penh are having a row:
20 March, Russian Embassy: "Russia’s clarifications on the Salisbury ‘incident’"
27 March, Russian Embassy: "Further clarification on the Salisbury incident"
28 March, Russian Embassy: "A hostile standoff with Russia is not needed"
28 March, British Embassy: "Britain’s clarification of the Salisbury incident"
3 April, Russian embassy: "Russia: Burden of proof rests solely on UK"
Are the embassies really writing into the Khmer Times to have this debate?
Yesterday there was a "letter" titled "The US mission: We want to rule the world". I'll let you guess of the tone.gavinmac wrote:It's my impression that, over the last 2-3 months, the Khmer Times is running more anti-foreigner stories than usual. Foreigners being rounded up and deported, foreigners committing crimes, etc.
As it was in the "letters" sections, which I think they confuse with what other papers write "editorials", I was curious if the author was real. Turns out that Raoul M Jennar, PhD, is in fact real, with his own wikipedia page and website. It appears that he is a Belgian/French essayist that specialized on Cambodia, a country that he has been visiting since 1988.
There's nothing inherently bad, or wrong, with what he states, but he is very much a large mouthpiece against the West. Again, he's not necessarily wrong when he lambastes the U.S. and other Western countries for their treatment of Cambodia over the years. I just thought that it's interesting that this French writing essayist would write into the Khmer Times like that, and how strongly worded it was. It certainly follows the line of others that write it, but none seem to write in against the government.
I also find it interesting that in the past month in "letters to the Khmer Times" it appears that the Russian and British embassies in Phnom Penh are having a row:
20 March, Russian Embassy: "Russia’s clarifications on the Salisbury ‘incident’"
27 March, Russian Embassy: "Further clarification on the Salisbury incident"
28 March, Russian Embassy: "A hostile standoff with Russia is not needed"
28 March, British Embassy: "Britain’s clarification of the Salisbury incident"
3 April, Russian embassy: "Russia: Burden of proof rests solely on UK"
Are the embassies really writing into the Khmer Times to have this debate?
Jennar is real. He's a foaming at the mouth critic of anything western and a chocolate nosed sycophant for anything pro govt. Like LL on steroid shakes.
He'd actually be quite interesting if he could tone it down and be a little more subjective.
He'd actually be quite interesting if he could tone it down and be a little more subjective.
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This 6 April "letter to the editor", Challenges remain in Abenomics, from the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, is simply a 3 April Press Release from their website, Japan: Higher Growth and Inflation Achieved, yet Challenges Remain to Sustain Strong Performance.
I reached out to the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, so ask if they had submitted the letter. Their response:
Again, T Mohan might want to clarify what "letters" means.
I reached out to the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, so ask if they had submitted the letter. Their response:
We did not submit it as a “Letter to the Editor”. We shared the Press release with journalists in Cambodia and the Khmer Times asked us to use it on their newspaper.
Again, T Mohan might want to clarify what "letters" means.
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Great find Epidemiks. I had been meaning to write about some of the recent fake looking opinion pieces in the KT and “Pol Peanorin” was one of the aliases. Also prolific fake expat commenter and letter writer “Bruce MacLean”
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The Khmer Times is printing plagiarized editorials again. Parts of today's editorial warning that Sam Rainsy is an "extremist demagogue" are plagiarized from a 2017 article that appeared in the New Republic about Donald Trump.
Here is the Khmer Times editorial: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50643312/t ... am-rainsy/
And here is the 2017 New Republic article: https://newrepublic.com/article/145916/ ... stitutions
And here's a comparison of the plagiarized parts about "extremist demagogues" and the "tragic paradox"
The funny thing is the Khmer Times tinkered with the New Republic article commentary about the need for "political parties" to work together to prevent demagogues from gaining power. That wouldn't make sense when writing about a one party state.
Here is the Khmer Times editorial: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50643312/t ... am-rainsy/
And here is the 2017 New Republic article: https://newrepublic.com/article/145916/ ... stitutions
And here's a comparison of the plagiarized parts about "extremist demagogues" and the "tragic paradox"
The funny thing is the Khmer Times tinkered with the New Republic article commentary about the need for "political parties" to work together to prevent demagogues from gaining power. That wouldn't make sense when writing about a one party state.
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Khmer Times keep popping up on my Facebook feed as a sponsored link, together with many other questionable entities. It's amazing what some companies get away with, if only they are big enough. Back home, plenty of stories about scamming companies using sponsored links on Facebook to gain more 'customers'.
It's a disgrace imho.
It's a disgrace imho.
What’s a disgrace? That Khmer Times pays for ads on Facebooks? It’s hardly a crime.
KT gets away with plagiarism not because it is a large company, but precisely the opposite. It is irrelevant and meaningless and nobody reads it except gavinmac.
KT gets away with plagiarism not because it is a large company, but precisely the opposite. It is irrelevant and meaningless and nobody reads it except gavinmac.
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TV advertising is heavily regulated, but Facebook can post sponsored links from anything and anyone, bitcoin sellers with celebrities endorsing the product, who never gave their permission, the Russian Mackeeper scammers etc.
And they will gladly take money from anti western Khmer times as well. Guess they really don't care about anything but creating profit for themselves.
That's a disgrace imho, and should be dealt with by new legislation, which is happening back in the homeland this winter afaik. About time.
And they will gladly take money from anti western Khmer times as well. Guess they really don't care about anything but creating profit for themselves.
That's a disgrace imho, and should be dealt with by new legislation, which is happening back in the homeland this winter afaik. About time.
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