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American Idol's Scott McCreery and Lauren Alaina's story They're On Their Way was our fastest riser in our NEW NR TOP 10 ratings - Fox photo

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NR TOP 10 June 2011 - THE (Sepp) BLATTER MATTER IS TOPS

James Loving - National Radio Text Service

Sports and our Phnom Penh columns tied for 1st with each taking 3 of the Top 10 spots. Politics isn't our game but it jumped up this month through a thread of articles relate to the topic. The bottom line is Cambodian politics and justice is as clear as MUD

Wednesday June 15, 2011

A MIXED BAG OF TOPICS but FIFA EMERGES

Sports tied with our Phnom Penh column for the most read as each took three positions in our NR Top 10 ratings. It was CAMBODIA'S MYSTERIOUS RISE IN THE FIFA Rankings that locked down the number one position. That was the straw that stirred the drink and threaded the three sports columns together as being the most interesting as they all contained a Sepp Blatter theme.

It appears that many have been doing their research on the king of football as the oldest column to make the list was from our Sports Notes June 2010 Extra column that noted Blatter intended to run for the FIFA presidential office again. That story ranked # 6 in our NR Top 10 ratings. That was followed up with FIFA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS HEATING UP which notched the 10th spot.

Our Phnom Penh columns gained some strength with the Top 5 stories in our February edition that moved from the 4th position to take 2nd place this month. The interest in that column is largely driven by the child sex trafficking and prostitution documentary RED LIGHT which took the top spot at that time.

Khmer Rouge victim now lawyer and activist Theary Seng was the protagonist in the documentary Facing Genocide that takes a victims point of view of the Khmer Rouge destruction and abuse of the Cambodian nation and people. This story is gaining momentum having moved up five spots from the 9th to the 4th position.

The other Top 10 Phnom Penh column was our take on what goes on in the realm that dictates an unjust discriminating biased system which ranked # 7. We experienced it first hand while covering the ASEAN Tourism Forum. What we've learned is given that we were the first to write about Angkor Wat, the Royal Palace and other notable places of interest in Cambodia our thanks was to be assaulted by a Ministry of Tourism employee.

During that Tourism Forum period away from the event local journalists had their cameras and tape recorders taken from them while they were covering government related stories. They were guilty of asking questions and taking photos that government officials weren't comfortable with such as photos of the strong armed tactics being employed in the redevelopment and displacement of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake area.

What we have learned and experienced since we first visited Phnom Penh in 1998 is there is a focus on greed and an unfair justice system that rewards the rich and exploits the poor. An example is the ppreviously noted of how the police STRONG ARMED a staff photographer of the Phnom Penh Post trying to tell the story of a group of village people who were being evicted from their homes and were beaten police and security personnel.

In Cambodia many put their hands on someone (assault) as a show of strength. In America that show of strength would put them behind bars. His actions demonstrated how ignorant and disrespectful the Tourism Ministry is. They appreciate nothing and expect everything.

We were the first to write about the subjects given that at the time we wrote those stories there was nothing on the Internet regarding the topics and the Ministry of Tourism had no information at that time on either subject� we had to start from scratch.

The other DISCRIMINATION Cambodian Style story is regarding the former Cambodian Football Federation President Ravy Khek not being tried for beating and threatening his former wife with a handgun. In the USA it is considered an assault with a deadly weapon which is a mandatory offense with a minimum one year jail sentence. After years in the court system the Cambodian case has yet to be finalized.

Conversely the April 3-May 1st 2011 edition of the Cambodia Daily (P-13) tells the story of a 15-year-old girl and two of her female friends ages 21 and 25 that stole cashew fruit. They were imprisoned immediately for a month in a jail with 1,100 prisoners at the time the report was published. The detention center was built to hold only 500.

The court system refused to release them despite the appeals of human rights groups for them to do so. The Daily failed to follow up on the story thus the girls situation is unknown. Their parents asked the court to release the girls on bail but were refused.

In today's Cambodia Daily it noted on Page 25 that Cambodia ranks LAST of 66 nations in the Global Rule of Law Index compiled by the World Justice Project. The government circled their wagons and denied the report was factual. The government notes that people think that when Cambodian people are rich that they are corrupt. This comes on the heels of a UN Human Rights envoy stating that Cambodia's judiciary needs major reforms and the one sided CPP-dominated legislature lacks transparency and pluralism.

The good news is that American Idol dominated our charts over the past few months and had the fastest moving story in this edition American Idol's Scott McCREERY and Lauren ALAINA are ON THEIR WAY rocketed up the charts to the third spot in less than two weeks. Our survey was taken June 12 and the story was released May 30th. Our American Idols Top 6 review took the 8th spot.

BIZ WHO IS shocked the charts with an old feature on the American Grammy Awards boss Neil Portnow with his background being the focus. And last but now least our Part 2 of our 2010 Year in Review remains on the charts in taking the 5th position down from the 3rd spot last month.

In our sections most visited the most notable is International football/soccer remains in the top spot. Sports Notes moved up to 2nd from 8th last month. Phnom Penh took 3rd and American Idol moved up two spots from 7th to 5th. The mystery entry is the Entertainment 2007 section. This section makes the charts from time to time and when we review it we can't find what is significant about the section. You take a look and you be the judge.

After an NGO contacted us regarding a story that we did in September 2004 on then 16-year-old Cambodian female track star Sou Tit Linda we racked our brains and files in search of it. We couldn't locate the report. Thus the search was on and Google led us down to the path of righteousness to the story. Thus it qualifies as one of our Archive stories of the month.

The other Archive feature is our first coverage in Asia that being the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok. Against All Odds tells the story of how close Thailand came to losing the games but after seven years of doing nothing rallied and put the venues and infrastructure together in one year.

SECTIONS MOST VISITED

	June 2011	May 2011	March & April 2011
1	Soccer	Soccer	Business
2	Sports Notes	NBA	NBA
3	Phnom Penh	Business	Entertainment
4	LAKERS	Travel	BIT
5	AMERICAN IDOL	FIFA	AMERICAN IDOL
6	Business	Entertainment	Soccer
7	Entertainment 2007	AMERICAN IDOL	Travel
8	TV & Video Reviews	Sports Notes	Cambodia
9	NBA	BIT	Sports Notes
10	BIZ WHO IS	BIZ WHO IS	TV & Video Reviews

1.	**NATIONAL RADIO TOP 10 - ***June* 2011****
1.	***Sports Notes* - CAMBODIA'S MYSTERIOUS RISE IN THE FIFA RANKINGS - March, 2011 WHAT'S UP WITH FIFA's RATINGS? - While some of the Top 10 teams lose points but hold positions Cambodia's gain in the ratings is mysterious. Over the years that we have been covering international football most notably in the Asian region there are things that jump up like RED FLAGS Previous - *Sports Notes* - FIFA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS HEATING UP - May, 2011 DOWN & DIRTY - With FIFA engulfed with bribery accusations of its members the story won't go away. Just a few days before the elections FIFA President Sepp Blatter's opponent FIFA Executive Committee member Mohamed bin Hammam from Qatar is now being taken to task being accused of improprieties. It appears to be the beginning of a major mud throwing competition - FIFA TOP 10**
2.	TV - VIDEO BEAT *EXTRA Part 2* - RED LIGHT - THE CHILD SEX TRADE (in Cambodia) - February, 2011 KHMER MEN account for 90% of the customers in the Child Sex Trade - Children are being raped, mutilated, hooked on drugs and becoming mentally damaged for life and very few people care while the donor money is being wasted - *Recommended TV Listings* *Previous -* ***Sports Notes* - CAMBODIA'S MYSTERIOUS RISE IN THE FIFA RANKINGS - March, 2011 WHAT'S UP WITH FIFA's RATINGS?** - While some of the Top 10 teams lose points but hold positions Cambodia's gain in the ratings is mysterious. Over the years that we have been covering international football most notably in the Asian region there are things that jump up like RED FLAGS
3.	TV - VIDEO BEAT MAX Part 3 - American Idol's Scott McCREERY and Lauren ALAINA are ON THEIR WAY - May, 2011 IDOLS'S DYNAMIC DUO ROCKS THE WORLD - Within 48 hours of the American Idol finale Idol winner Scott McCreery and runner-up Lauren Alaina's records shot up the iTunes charts in taking the # 1 and 3rd spots respectively - *Recommended TV Listings* *Previous -* *NR TOP STORY LIST* - *YEAR 2010 IN REVIEW - Part 2 - January 2011* THE COVER-UP OF FORMER US VP DICK CHENEY'S $250 MILLION PLEA BARGAIN FINE FOR BRIBERY is the YEARS TOP STORY - Television played a major role in how people think. CNN and FOX News are the most negligent in presenting balanced reports. The cover-up of the Cheney story indicates collusion of major media with US government institutions. Nine of our top 19 stories came from viewing films and television including the CIA's Secret War
4.	*Phnom Penh (Ah) - THEARY SENG featured in the film "FACING GENOCIDE**" -* *May* *2011* While sleeping with her mother four year old Theary Seng's awakened and her eyes locked on to the eyes of the Khmer Rouge soldiers as they entered the room with wet ropes and then they left. Her mother knew exactly what the wet ropes meant. When she awakened her mother was gone. At first she didn't think that was unusual since the adults left early to go to work. In this case that wasn't the reality - Red Light and Virginity Trade to be Screened at the Meta House *Previous -* TV - VIDEO BEAT *EXTRA Part 2* - RED LIGHT - THE CHILD SEX TRADE (in Cambodia) - February, 2011 KHMER MEN account for 90% of the customers in the Child Sex Trade - Children are being raped, mutilated, hooked on drugs and becoming mentally damaged for life and very few people care while the donor money is being wasted - *Recommended TV Listings*
5.	*NR TOP STORY LIST* - *YEAR 2010 IN REVIEW - Part 2 - January 2011* THE COVER-UP OF FORMER US VP DICK CHENEY'S $250 MILLION PLEA BARGAIN FINE FOR BRIBERY is the YEARS TOP STORY - Television played a major role in how people think. CNN and FOX News are the most negligent in presenting balanced reports. The cover-up of the Cheney story indicates collusion of major media with US government institutions. Nine of our top 19 stories came from viewing films and television including the CIA's Secret War *Previous* - **TV - VIDEO BEAT - JAY LENO... HE'S BACK!!! - February, 2011 WAS-SUP WIT LENO??? - In the USA Leno returned to host The Tonight Show again on March 1, 2010 but he's recently returned to being televised in Asia on CNBC - One of the most memorable films we have ever seen is Same, Same But Different - CNN went Tiger Woods bashing again more than a year after it was disclosed that he cheated on his wife - Recommended TV Listings**
6.	*Sports Notes* EXTRA - FIFA'S BLATTER TO RUN AGAIN - CAMBODIAN FOOTBALL'S DECLINE Part 2 - June, 2010 FIFA president Blatter to seek another four-year term at the world governing body's congress in 2011 - Since the departure of manager Joachim Fickert in January 2003 the Cambodian national team has fallen from what little grace they had and are not as competitive as in the past *Previous -* NBA BEAT - YAO MING REMAINS # 1 TO NBA FANS - January, 2011 After the second round of voting Yao registered 754,583 votes as the leading vote-getter among Western Conference centers, with the Lakers' Andrew Bynum's 493,237 votes placing second but injuries continue to mar Yao's All-Star career
7.	Phnom Penh - *NO WONDER! IN THE KINGDOM OF WONDER* - *January* *2011* THE SPIN ON PHNOM PENH - ASEAN Tourism Forum - What we have learned and experienced since we first visited Phnom Penh in 1998 - STRONG ARMED - Page 2 - DISCRIMINATION Cambodian Style - Ravy Khek THE NON STORY - THE META HOUSE - Top 5 Phnom Penh stories *Previous -* TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA EXTRA Part 2 - AMERICAN IDOL'S TOP 3 LAUREN ALAINA, SCOTT McCREERY & HALEY REINHART - May, 2011 IT'S ON !!! - All are talented but McCreery is the closest to being a finished product to be a recording star. Alaina rates second in that department. Her country style voice is better than former Idol winner Carrie Underwood - THE SIMON'S (COWELL & FULLER) IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY - *Recommended TV Listings*
8.	TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA Part* 3 - AMERICAN IDOLS TOP 6 REVIEW* - April, 2011 WHO'S THE BEST? WE RATE YOU DO THE REST - When Pia Toscano was eliminated the bloom fell off American Idols rose. What remains is a talented Top 6 who are good but the program is not as interesting and the judges are showing their warts in the error of their ways and decisions. We rate the Top 6 according to their performances and selections to the Bottom 3 - *Recommended TV Listings* *Previous -* TV - VIDEO BEAT MAX Part 1 - AMERICAN IDOL'S YOUNGEST FINALE SCOTT McCREERY 17 & LAUREN ALAINA 16 - May, 2011 IT'S ON!!! THE BATTLE OF COUNTRY SINGERS - This should be the best finale ever given the youth aspect and both have super unique voices and poise - These two are the closest in talent ever in the finals surpassing the competitive duo of David Cook and David Archuleta in season 7 - Does the NBA really CARE about the poor Asian minorities? - *Recommended TV Listings*
9.	*BIZ WHO IS* - **The Grammy's Neil Portnow - *September* *2007* Among his new ideas Portnow created and integrated "My GRAMMY Moment" on the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards � the first-ever interactive creative segment on the GRAMMY Awards telecast - TV - Previous - Phnom Penh (Ah) -* THEARY SENG featured in the film "FACING GENOCIDE****" -* *May* *2011* While sleeping with her mother four year old Theary Seng's awakened and her eyes locked on to the eyes of the Khmer Rouge soldiers as they entered the room with wet ropes and then they left. Her mother knew exactly what the wet ropes meant. When she awakened her mother was gone. At first she didn't think that was unusual since the adults left early to go to work. In this case that wasn't the reality - Red Light and Virginity Trade to be Screened at the Meta House
10.	***Sports Notes* - FIFA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS HEATING UP - May, 2011 DOWN & DIRTY - With FIFA engulfed with bribery accusations of its members the story won't go away. Just a few days before the elections FIFA President Sepp Blatter's opponent FIFA Executive Committee member Mohamed bin Hammam from Qatar is now being taken to task being accused of improprieties. It appears to be the beginning of a major mud throwing competition - FIFA TOP 10** Previous - **TV - VIDEO BEAT MAX Part 2 - SCOTT McCREERY WINS AMERICAN IDOL TITLE - May, 2011 WINNING BY A NOSE - Lauren Alaina's charge at the end of the season was like a race horse being six lengths behind on the Kentucky Derby race track at the last turn heading for the finish line. She almost beat McCreery but in the end but he won by a nose - Recommended TV Listings**
*ARCHIVE STORIES*	***Sports Notes* - 16-YEAR-OLD CAMBODIAN OLYMPIAN RUNS TO WIN IN LIFE - September, 2004 With the aftermath and destruction of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge the nation needed a new image. We found that in 16-year-old Sou Tit Linda who qualified to run for her country in the 2004 Olympics in Greece after only ONE YEAR of competing in the sport. With a gleam in her eyes she recalled her Olympic experience. *Sports Notes* - THAILAND HOSTS ASIAN GAMES - AGAINST ALL ODDS - December 11, 1998** Thailand was unanimously awarded to host the 13th Asian Games the games eight years ago by the participating Asian nations. Just three years ago the nations were openly critical of the lack of preparation. It was suggested that Thailand be disqualified from hosting the games. There was very little progress to get the job done until Prime Minister CHAUN LEEKPAI returned to office November '97

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