Bangkok declared a disaster zone: all 50 districts flooded after nearly 300 mm of rain in two days
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the same fact, two accounts
this subject is more divergent than 68% of the subjects analysed
GermanyBerlin sees the flooding of Bangkok as the consequence of a city built on former marshland, caught between extreme monsoon and a saturated network of canals.
What each one tells
opposition
FranceParis first remembers the faces of the catastrophe: the inhabitants of Bangkok, with water up to their waists, rather than just the administrative mechanics of the state of natural disaster.
- Germany
Institutional framework
the narrative is based on the governor's announcements to trace the evolution of the crisis.
Omission of the human toll
the report details administrative emergency measures without mentioning any victims.
What the account puts first
Francethrough individual testimony
several accounts begin with the experience of a resident rather than a numerical assessment of those affected.
Omission of the broader human toll
the report only mentions one death in the affected provinces, without referencing a more comprehensive assessment released elsewhere.
- Germany
Reliance on AFP agency
the field reporting is based on dispatches from the French press agency rather than its own correspondents.
What it leans on
FranceReliance on a common source
several headlines repeat verbatim the same findings attributed to AFP journalists.
and the figures
this press does not report this figure
Pumping rate in Bangkok
cubic meters per second (m³/s)
only one reports itaround 1,200 cubic meters of water per second
this press does not report this figure
Human toll of floods in Thailand
number of deaths
only one reports itone death, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation