There’s a scene in the film “The Big Short,” in which Steve Carrell’s character is interviewing an arrogant mortgage broker who’s describing how easy it is to sell fraudulent housing loans to banks. “I don’t get it. Why are they confessing?” the shocked Carrell character asks his colleagues. “That’s not confessing; they’re bragging,” comes the reply.
There was something of a bragging confession in the Khmer Times’ latest critique of this columnist, penned by the academic Thong Mengdavid, who opted for the curiously egotistical headline, “Balancing Integrity and Responsibility, A Critical Examination of David Hutt’s Journalism on Cambodia.” Balance must have been abandoned in an earlier draft, and one might question the integrity of someone who chooses to publish an article in the Khmer Times, a state-bought newspaper that presumably had to check the dictionary definitions of integrity, responsibility, and journalism before running the article.
In full: https://thediplomat.com/2024/10/whats-happened-to-cambodias-thinking-class/
