BANGKOK'S BRUISED AND BATTERED IMAGE
These are not exactly the picture postcard images that Thailand wants the world to see, yet these are the photographs seen by millions of people around the world on Tuesday's front pages. From North America to Australia, from Serbia to Japan ... the street riots in Bangkok on Monday demanded attention from the world's media - and that's exactly what happened. The situation in Bangkok has returned to normal but that's not as newsworthy, is it?
5 comments:
Yes, "Bangkok Has Returned to Normal" is not exciting news and will probably wont make it front lines :( How sad!
I see lots of green in those front pages. "Military lays the smackdown on anti-government protesters" hardly sounds like a victory for Thailand's poodle. Especially since thousands of foreign tourists will probably remember headlines like "Military opens its legs for anti-government protesters" from last year.
anon - I don't personally remember that headline from last year but I get your meaning. ;-)
Nice composite image Andrew - how did you make it? Looks like it took soem time.
That would be telling, Teresa ! ;-)
It took about an hour. There's a website where you can view front pages from newspapers around the world, so it was a case of screen-grabbing those, adding a drop shadow in Photoshop and copying them into one big image.
I've done it a few times, although never with so many front pages. I just felt it was the only way to show how Bangkok's image was being portrayed around the world.
I'm glad you liked it.
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