Posted on 08/01/2015 9:57:33 AM PDT by RightGeek
Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi apologised Saturday after its Bangkok bureau chief posted an image of his genitals on a mobile forum set up by Thailand's foreign ministry, which warned of "consequences".
A spokesman for the channel said the unnamed employee had been removed from the job due to his "extremely inappropriate" behaviour.
The ministry demanded an explanation for the graphic picture that appeared late Monday in the forum, which was set up for foreign journalists working in Thailand.
"We deeply apologise to the Thai foreign ministry and other people concerned," the spokesman said, adding the journalist had been urged to "seriously reflect" on the incident.
Japanese media said the bureau chief, who is in his forties, had meant to send the picture to a female friend, but instead uploaded it through popular messaging app Line to about 150 journalists who belong to the forum.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thejakartapost.com ...
Technology has liberated them.
Trench coats and Polaroids .. at least that’s what I did!
J/k - but I can imagine that’s the answer.
This might be considered normal in Japan...
“THAILAND?”
Bang kok.
He has become a noun.
I laughed hard enough to keep back the vomit!
May 27 [2013]: Then-congressman Anthony Weiner sends a waist-down photo to a 21-year-old female college student in Seattle. The photo is quickly deleted and Weiner tweets that his Facebook account had been hacked. In the days following the tweet, spokesman calls the photo "a distraction" perpetuated by a hacker and Weiner fends off questions about the photo.
June 1: Weiner tells MSNBC he cannot say "with certitude" whether the photo of a man's underpants was of him or not but continues to deny sending it. Photos of a shirtless Weiner surface, purportedly from a second woman.
June 6: Additional photos and messages purportedly sent to another woman surface.
Weiner admits sending the waist-down photo and acknowledges "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/anthony-weiner-sex-scandal-timeline-94687.html#ixzz3bw6aFO23
Maybe explains why trench coats have largely gone out of style.
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