Dear  Sirs/Madams, 
Recently, CNN Thailand Correspondents Dan Rivers  and Sarah Snider have made me seriously reconsider your agency as a  source for reliable and accurate unbiased news. As of this writing, over  thousands of CNN’s viewers have already begun to question the accuracy  and dependability of its reporting as regards events in Afghanistan,  Haiti, Iraq, Iran, etc., in addition to Bangkok. 
As a  first-rate global news agency, CNN has an inherent professional duty to  deliver all sides of the truth to the global public who have  faithfully and sincerely placed their trust and reliance in you. Your  news network, by its longtime transnational presence and extensive  reach, has been put in a position of trust and care; CNN’s journalists,  reporters, and researchers have a collective responsibility to follow  the journalist's code and ethics to deliver and present facts from all  facets of the story, not merely one-sided, shallow and sensational  half-truths. The magnitude of harm or potential extent of damage that  erroneous and fallacious news reporting can cause to (and exacerbate),  not only a country’s internal state of affairs, economic well-being, and  general international perception, but also the real lives and  livelihood of the innocent and voiceless people of that nation, is  enormous. CNN should not negligently discard its duty of care to the  international populace by reporting single-sided or unverified facts and  distorted truths drawn from superficial research, or display/distribute  biased images which capture only one side of the actual event. 
Mr. Rivers and  Ms. Snider have NOT done their best under these life-threatening  circumstances because many other foreign correspondents have done  better. All of Mr. Rivers and Ms. Sniders' quotes and statements seem to  have been solely taken from the anti-government protest leaders or  their followers/sympathizers. Yet, all details about the government’s  position have come from secondary resources. No direct interviews with  government officials have been shown; no interviews or witness  statements from ordinary Bangkok residents or civilians unaffiliated  with the protesters, particularly those who have been harassed by or  suffered at the hands of the protesters, have been circulated. 
Why the  discrepancy in source of information? Why the failure to report all of  the government’s previous numerous attempts to negotiate or invitations  for protesters to go home? Why no broadcasts shown of the myriad ways  the red protesters have terrorized and harmed innocent civilians by  burning their shops, enclosing burning tyres around apartment buildings,  shooting glass marbles at civilians from high altitudes, attacking  civilians in their cars, and worst of all, obstructing paramedics and  ambulances carrying civilians injured by M79 grenade blasts during the  Silom incident of April 24, 2010, thereby resulting in the sole civilian  casualty? The entire timeline of events that have forced the government  to take this difficult stance has been hugely and callously ignored in  deference to the red ‘underdogs’. 
Mr. Rivers and  Ms. Snider’s choice of sensational vocabulary and terminology in every  newscast or news report, and choice of images to broadcast, has resulted  in law-abiding soldiers and the heavily-pressured Thai government being  painted in a negative, harsh, and oppressive light, whereas the  genuinely violent and law-breaking arm of the anti-government protesters  - who are directly responsible for overt acts of aggression not only  against armed soldiers but also against helpless, unarmed civilians and  law-abiding apolitical residents of this once blooming metropolis (and  whose actions under American law would by now be classified as terrorist  activities) – are portrayed as righteous freedom fighters deserving of  worldwide sympathy and support. This has mislead the various  international Human Rights watchdogs to believe the Thai government are  sending trigger-happy soldiers out to ruthlessly murder unarmed  civilians without just cause. 
As a current  resident of "war zone" Bangkok who has experienced the effect of the Red  protests first hand and is living in a state of constant terror and  anxiety as to whether her family, friends, and home would get bombed or  attacked by the hardcore anti-government vigilantes/paramilitary forces -  I appeal to CNN's professional integrity to critically investigate and  scrutinize the misinformed news reporting of your above-named  correspondents. If they are incapable of obtaining genuine, authentic  facts from any other source except the Red Protest leaders and  red-sympathizing Thai translators or acquaintances, or from fellow  non-Thai-speaking journalists who are similarly ignorant of Thai  language, culture, history, and society, then perhaps CNN should  consider reassigning field correspondents to Thailand.
I implore and  urge you to please take serious action to correct or reverse the grave  injustice that has been done to the Thai nation, her government, and the  majority of law-abiding Thai citizens and expatriate residents by  having endorsed and widely circulated poorly researched and  misrepresented news coverage of the current ongoing political unrest and  escalating violence in Thailand. 
Copies of this  open letter have also been distributed to other local as well as  international news media and social networks for public information.  Please feel free to contact me further should you require any additional  concrete and reputable evidence in substantiation and corroboration of  my complaints and claims stated hereinabove. 
Thank you.
Yours  faithfully,
Napas Na Pombejra, B.A., LL.B. (Lond.)
Bangkok,  Thailand
May 17, 2010