Bangkok declared a disaster zone: all 50 districts flooded after nearly 300 mm of rain in two days

• Thailand

  «Bangkok is orchestrating an emergency command chain, from Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is piloting it by video conference from London, to justify the unprecedented declaration of the 50 affected districts.»

  What each one tells

  same framing

  Germany

  «Berlin 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.»

• Thailand

  Institutional framework

  «the narrative highlights the government chain of command, even detailing the Prime Minister's coordination via video conference from abroad.»

  Omission of the human toll

  «the article on impassable roads details water levels street by street without mentioning any victims.»

  What the account puts first

  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.»

• Thailand

  Reliance on official communication

  «the alert issued by the authorities is reproduced verbatim as the primary source of the narrative.»

  What it leans on

  Germany

  Reliance on AFP agency

  «the field reporting is based on dispatches from the French press agency rather than its own correspondents.»

and the figures

• around 1,200 cubic meters of water per second

  The Standard Thailand

  Pumping rate in Bangkok

  cubic meters per second (m³/s)

  only one reports it

  this press does not report this figure

• this press does not report this figure

  Human toll of floods in Thailand

  number of deaths

  this press does not report this figure